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Snack your way through Chinese cuisine and culture in one of L.A.’s most walkable neighborhoods with Chinatown’s ample bakeries. Start with the originator, the famous Phoenix Bakery, which is nearing its centennial and offers sugar butterflies, seasonal mooncakes, and the signature, pillowy strawberry cake among other classics. Don’t miss Flouring Cake Shop, an artful, modern bakery with cake bars in flavors such as black sesame and toasted coconut; Long’s Family Pastry for dim sum and sweets like pineapple buns and sponge cakes; and Queen’s Bakery for sesame-flecked rice puffs.
Flouring Cake Shop — (213) 266-8946, 932 N. Hill St., Los Angeles
Long’s Family Pastry — (213) 622-5255, 715 N. Spring St., Los Angeles
Queen’s Bakery — (213) 622-9749, 809 N. Broadway, Los Angeles
