Mini baked pork buns and egg custard tarts - where to buy for party at home

[cubbee]

The only places I have seem mini baked pork buns and mini egg custard tarts is at dim sum (Ton Kiang, Yank Sing, City View, etc) Does anyone know of a bakery in SF that makes them in the min size?

[intomeat]

TC Pastry on Irving has both

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TC Pastry
2222 Irving St, San Francisco, CA

[Melanie Wong]

Here's my old rec for TC Pastry for a similar question, including a link to a scale photo of the bao.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/3502...

[cubbee]

Thanks Melanie. I'm going to check out TC Pastry tomorrow. Do you recall if there are onions in the pork buns? I don't like when they mix onions in with the pork.

[chefj]

You may be able to order them from your favorite Dim Sum House give them a call.

[rubadubgdub]

Super Napoleon has mini pork buns. They don't have mini custard tarts but they do have mini custard buns and old wives' cakes. 5 for $1.30 or some ridiculous price like that. Excellent too.

[cubbee]

thanks!! i'm thinking of going there now to try them. what exactly are old wives' cakes?

[rubadubgdub]

Candied wintermelon surrounded by a flaky dough. They look like flat shiny cakes. The pidgin pinyin might be: lao po bang.

The custard tarts there are excellent too, just not mini. My true faves are the custard buns (bolo bao).