Tai Tung Bakery

Tai Tung Bakery (大同老餅家) is a traditional Chinese bakery based in Yuen Long, Hong Kong. According to its official website, the bakery traces its origins to more than seventy years ago, when a pastry chef, seeing how hard life was for ordinary people, hoped that everyone could have rice to eat and cakes to enjoy. He named his bakery 'Tai Tung' after the ideal of 'world harmony' (世界大同). The site describes Tai Tung as the oldest surviving Chinese bakery in Yuen Long today, and says the business has passed through more than sixty years and is now approaching its third generation of family stewardship. The bakery produces mooncakes, traditional Chinese pastries (唐餅) and bread. Its mooncake range is extensive, covering white lotus seed paste, yellow lotus seed paste, mixed nuts, red bean paste and specialty varieties, with single-, double-, triple- and quadruple-yolk options, as well as creations such as durian mooncake, lotus seed and coconut mooncake, and the fancifully named 'Grand Banquet' and 'Galaxy Banquet' mooncakes. Beyond mooncakes, Tai Tung makes classic Hong Kong pastries including sweetheart cakes (老婆餅), century egg pastries, egg rolls, chicken biscuits, sesame biscuits, walnut cookies and almond flakes. It also produces Chinese New Year foods such as sugarcane juice rice cake, radish cake, taro cake, sesame balls and peanut crisps, and a bridal cake series including dragon-and-phoenix cakes, white cakes, great-grandmother cakes and return-gift tea cakes, plus gift box sets and preserved meats such as liver sausage and preserved duck legs. The company emphasises small-batch production, premium ingredients and slow, hand-crafted methods by veteran pastry chefs. Its website states that while this approach may be less economically efficient than corporate-style operations, the human warmth, stubborn commitment to quality and insistence on doing things properly are what make the bakery special. Tai Tung operates a main shop in Yuen Long plus branches in Sha Tin, Wan Chai and Tsuen Wan, and has launched an online shop. It also runs seasonal sales booths, such as at Telford Plaza and Maritime Square during the 2022 Mid-Autumn Festival.

Tai Tung Bakery's own account of its origins begins more than seventy years ago, when a pastry chef saw how difficult daily life was for ordinary people and wished that everyone could have rice to eat and cakes to enjoy. He named the bakery he founded 'Tai Tung', drawing on the classical Chinese ideal of 'world harmony' (世界大同). The website describes Tai Tung as the oldest surviving Chinese bakery in Yuen Long today, and states that the business has continued for more than sixty years, passing down through the generations and now approaching its third generation of stewardship. The bakery frames its longevity around a simple philosophy: sincerity is worth more than a thousand words. It has maintained a model of small-batch production, using what it describes as the finest ingredients and relying on veteran pastry chefs with decades of experience to make its products by hand. The company acknowledges that this approach may be less economically efficient than corporate-style operations, but presents the resulting human warmth, stubborn commitment to quality and insistence on doing things properly as qualities worth savouring. Over the decades Tai Tung has expanded from its Yuen Long base to operate branches in Sha Tin, Wan Chai and Tsuen Wan, and has added an online shop. It also maintains a seasonal retail presence, for example running Mid-Autumn Festival sales booths at Telford Plaza and Maritime Square in 2022.

• Bakery founded in Yuen Long by a pastry chef, named 'Tai Tung' after the ideal of world harmony

• Business passes through more than sixty years and approaches its third generation of family stewardship

• 2022 Mid-Autumn Festival sales booths at Telford Plaza and Maritime Square run from 25 August to 9 September

Traditional, small-batch, hand-crafted Chinese bakery emphasising heritage, quality ingredients and human warmth over corporate efficiency.

• Mooncakes

  Range includes white lotus seed paste, yellow lotus seed paste, mixed nuts, red bean paste and specialty varieties, with single-, double-, triple- and quadruple-yolk options, plus durian mooncake, lotus seed and coconut mooncake, and 'Grand Banquet' and 'Galaxy Banquet' mooncakes.

• Classic pastries

  Sweetheart cakes, century egg pastries, egg rolls, chicken biscuits, white and black sesame biscuits, walnut cookies and almond flakes.

• Chinese New Year foods

  Sugarcane juice rice cake, radish cake, taro cake, sesame balls, flower pomegranate and peanut crisps.

• Bridal cake series

  Dragon-and-phoenix cakes, white cakes, great-grandmother cakes and return-gift tea cakes.

• Gift boxes

  Gold series and ceremonial series gift boxes.

• Preserved meats

  Liver sausage, preserved sausage and preserved duck legs.

1. 1大同老餅家 Tai Tung Bakery official websitetaitungbakery.com.hk