Auntie Em's is a great gem in the wall for pastry and cakes. I ordered chicken & beef empanadas, cheese rolls, cupcakes, and ube ensayamada. My in laws love the assorted cupcakes and empanadas. The cheese rolls are very crunchy as well. I pre-ordered the Halo Halo cake and it was delicious but a little bit too much coconut. I'd come back again and order more delicious pastries
Came here to try their ensaymada. It was on the dry side for me. Surprisingly, the cheese rolls are a winner!!!
Auntie Em is very professional and friendly.
Don't mind driving all the way out to Daly City to sample her delicious pastries.
Food: 4
Service: 4
Atmosphere: 4
Well it turns out that Aunt Em is indeed friendly.
Bring cash. It's 4 stars because over all we only enjoyed 2 out of 12 items. We but keep reading to see our favorites and must try.
We went on a Sunday afternoon and everything was in stock, fresh and available.
We bought one of EVERYTHING because we hadn't had any of these pastries before.
Most of them are a repeat of the same ingredients used in a different way. Butter, Sugar, Coconut in most of it. Everything was sweet, not overly sweet but even the savory items we slightly sweetened.
The four of us tried everything right away.
Here is what would consider we ordering again:
Cheese Rolls⭐️ $2 ea
Cheesy bread roll sweet, super flaky like baked fila dough coated with a sugar butter glaze. We could have order a couple of dozen.
Ube Ensaymada $4
Brioche bread buttery rich filled with ube extract and topped with cheese. The other flavored Ensaymadas were dolce de leche and cheese in the center, sweet, salted granulated cheese on top. In our opinion those flavors we not the business. The texture is good but not the flavor combo.
And maybe these:
Chicken Empanadas $4
Beef Empanadas $4
These have peas, carrots and potatoes with meat. These were decent. We tried these a million different ways so our palette for these is advanced.
Buko pie $5
Young coconut custard pie
You gotta love coconut to like this because it is literally a pot pie with tons sugary shedded coconut and chunks of coconut meat on the inside. Not really custardy at all. This was good but we won't get it again.
The Chicharrones $8, deep fried pig skin, feet, ears. Who really ever knows, but 2 of us liked those. The other 2 of us couldn't get past the smell. Stinkier than any pork rind/ anything that I have ever smelled.
We really don't have any experience with Filipino pastries so we couldn't really compare it to much. I have a feeling someone with a little more experience would really enjoy a lot of these. From what I have researched these are authentic style pastries. And would likely satisfy the tastebuds of someone looking for familiar flavors from their childhood and or travels.
So when Auntie Em's first opened I went to check it out. The products are definitely REALLY, REALLY GOOD, but the owner was not. I told all my friends about this place because it's really word of mouth in the Pilipino community, but they experienced the SAME "attitude" and so we all kinda stopped going but recently my best friend went and told me that the owner was super nice when she went so I decided to check it out again and I have to say that Auntie Em has redeemed herself and she was really nice and quick to help with what I wanted, so I have to put up a great post and recommend that everyone check this place out because everything she makes is really, really delicious, fresh, unique. I went twice in one week because her bibingka is GREAT and so are her chicken empanadas and ensymada, but man, she makes the BEST cheese rolls ever, even better than Portos. I will start frequenting this place again because I prefer to support independent local businesses.
I just found out about this place when I picked up my order at Karilagan. Just tried their Bibingka with salted egg and Ube Bibingka and they're really good!
This is a best pastries shop. The store is small, but the products are Excellent.
I notice the owners are the one taking care of business and also preparing or manning the kitchen with some assistant. The quality of the products are consistently excellent all the time. Perhaps because the owner really like cooking and baking.
I learned that they continue to attend cooking classes not only here in america but also abroad. That is how they come out with new products that are very good.
The Ensaymada and the Cheese Roll is one of the best I have eaten.
The old lady who is cashierIng is not friendly, gives you an almost sinister look as I was trying to browse to see what they have, i feel like she is impatient and i felt rushed and not wanted there. There was no other customer there too for her to be the way she was. Also, prices are steep for same from other bakeries.
