CA Bakehouse

I honestly really like CA Bakehouse, and their pastries! It's a cute pick up type of situation, so there's no seating. I'd recommend already knowing what you want to order because the line can move fairly quickly. I bought the Portuguese Egg Tart and Pandan Choux, and both were so flavorful and fresh. The outer part was soft, and the fillings for both were not too sweet either.

This is a solid bake shop with some really great goodies! My favorite is the honeycomb cake, it's moist and delicious! The flavor is wonderful and really worth the price! The mochi cake is really nice as well, be ft chewy and sweet. The pandan milk buns are good, but really filling. The choux and egg tarts were alright. We usually order online for pick up and it's much easier than standing in the long line. The only downside is that they are only open at noon. Definitely worth trying!

This bakery is more of an order and pickup place as you cannot walk in and browse to look at pastries. Lines are usually long on weekends so I opt to order ahead online through their website (also available in third party apps). I tried their egg tart, Kaya egg tart, choux pastry, and mochi cake. Kaya egg tart was light in favor (barely noticeable) but still good. My favorite was their normal egg tart - while the crust was flakey and more dense, tart was overall still delicious. Mochi cake was standard, choux pastry I could've definitely skipped (didn't love the pastry but filling was good).Overall place was good. Plaza it's located is busy and may be hard to find parking on weekends!

I honestly don't understand the hype around this place. I came here for the first time to try their baked goods, and there was a long line out the door. Their mochi cake was pretty good but their choux was some of the worst I've ever had. It was almost tasteless and the outside puff part was kind of stale. I don't think I'll be going back, but am I missing something here?

I was in the area for an event and was wanted to pickup some Asian desserts to take back home, given I had plenty of bookmarks around San Jose and this was one of them. I'd previously come here to find out they were closed.It's in a large Vietnamese shopping/dining mall in San Jose. It was really crowded on a Sunday after New Year's and finding parking was tough for a bit, we eventually got a spot after waiting a bit.There was a line, they're obviously super popular. The baked items were coming fresh out. I was confused for a while with all the options, especially because I wanted to have both kayo and ube, and also the egg tart. I eventually settled on getting a Portuguese egg tart and a kayo (pandan custard) croissant. My friend got the guava mochi.I gulped both desserts down immediately after getting home. They were both great, I can't pick one over the other.It's easy to see why the kaya croissant is a bestseller, it's was light, fresh, and the right amount of sweet for sure. I've had pandan flavored desserts before and this was certain up there with them. Egg tart was fluffy and filling! It was light in terms of flavor without a strong egg flavor for me. Good value for money for both in my opinion.

I'm definitely the unpopular opinion when it comes to CA Bakehouse. Maybe Asian desserts aren't my fave but items ordered were decent. Sister loves her pandan desserts and asked me to pick up items with pandan ("Asian-vanilla") usually accompanied by coconut milk: :: Pandan Macadamia Cookie - these were okay and not much to rave about as far as flavor but it was a nice soft, chewy cookie with taste of macadamia :: Bánh Bò Nướng (honeycomb cake) - chewy, airy from the use of tapioca flour...if you like mochi you'll love this cake. Sadly, it wasn't for me...its a texture thing and to me, didn't have much flavor :: Kaya and Durian Egg Tart - family enjoyed these brightly-colored tarts. Crust nice and flaky. Wish I had purchased a simple Portuguese tart to try. Overall, i wasn't a fan but sister was happy with her #1 request of the honeycomb cake with the bouncy texture and pandan flavors. Other family members enjoyed but I felt like my 7- year old niece "I just taste GREEN"....EXACTLY! Also picked up orders for a friend and she thought items were 'ok'. The owner who handed me my order was very friendly and nice. After ordering about $150 worth of items, I forgot to add a pandan waffle to eat for the ride home... I asked if it was okay to order ONE item....the young worker said I would have to move over to the ORDERING line (10 people) and wait. SMH. It wasn't like I was ordering 10 more items.....almost had a New Jersey Housewife moment and flip the table....okay, only in my head! Place is set up for pickup/ordering at the door vs perusing in the bakery. Best to order online and pickup to minimize the wait. Saturday pickup was fine as i have good parking karma and scored a spot in front but it's a bit chaotic exiting (101, Story Road) the freeway (11:30 am) with parking being a challenge and a bit frenetic.

Fresh Asian flavored pastries! Pandan egg tart and Portuguese egg tart was yum! Winner here for me was their cassava cake. Their pandan croissant custard was solid. Croissant could use a little bit more fluffiness - a bit hard/not as fresh as other croissants I've had.They rotate their menu, but their egg tarts are always there. Quick order and pick up. The shop doesn't let you in at the moment. You just order at their door.

Parking is always a bit difficult to find in this area. We came here around 1:30pm on Saturday and it was pretty crowded outside the store with a short line. We got a Portuguese egg tart, Kaya egg tart, ube croissant, hojicha choux, and espresso cookie.We enjoyed all of the pastries, and the espresso cookie and ube croissant were my favorite. The two egg tarts didn't seem to have much of a difference in flavor. I'd come back again to try other items!

Thanks to the many awesome recommendations and pics from fellow yelpers, we came by to check this place out. We didn't realize they were near closing and we saw their coconut buns and honeycomb cakes hot and fresh from the oven. I wanted to try their croissants and egg tarts but the 2 ladies there said they're all sold out and about to close. (Thats when we realized they were closing and we happened to walk in as they were prepping to close). They were nice enough to still sell us the buns and honeycomb cake as we said we literally just got there from SoCal! I will say...perhaps we never had these literally fresh out of the oven in LA and why they were sooo deliciously soft and fluffy but they were still just as good as the moment we bought them the next day!! One of the best I ever had!! Oh I will miss delicious morsels n will get definitely get a few more if i ever go back to visit NorCal! Alongside the egg tarts and all the other items next time!! Or perhaps, they can open one is SoCal one day! Place was clean and nice. Service was great and parking was plentiful. A bit costly in my opinion but totally worth it!!

The honeycomb pandan cake is enough to warrant 5 stars. The most buttery squishy cake. I always think to myself if I can brave the traffic and parking situation at viet town to get some more. The guava mochi cake was also phenomena! We walked in at closing time and the ladies had already packaged everything up. Luckily they were willing to sell to us anyway. It kinda felt like I was at a stall in Vietnam cuz they were all trying to get me to buy more than I bargained for. And I'm do glad they did cuz I came home with a bounty! If only I could get down there more often, I would. These ladies know how to bake!