Chinese Bakery Near Me in San Gabriel: Oh My Pan's Volcano Toast

Oh My Pan Bakery & Tea bakes more than 40 kinds of bread and over 20 cakes every day at 801 E Valley Blvd #105, San Gabriel, CA 91776, and it opens seven days a week from 9 am to 8 pm. The breads use Japanese flour and no additives, so eat them the same day. If you typed chinese bakery near me on Valley Boulevard and want a self-serve Taiwanese-style bakery that doubles as a tea house, this is the San Gabriel original.

Oh My Pan opened in San Gabriel in 2011, in the middle of the recession. The bakery's own history says the founder saw the downturn as a test: if a business could make it then, it could make it anytime. His idea was simple, food that was both delicious and affordable, and the shop has stayed family owned since. The bakery says it was nominated as the best Asian bakery by the Los Angeles Times.

The space is bigger than it looks from Valley Boulevard. The food blogger behind Endo Edibles described an L-shaped room wrapped around the counter and kitchen, with shelves of sweet and savory breads lining the walls and tables filled by young customers working on laptops over milk tea. He also noted that the LA Times once called its taro bun the best in the Valley, a bun that still sits on the top-seller list.

The sweet side is anchored by two top sellers: a taro bun filled with buttercream and a coffee bun with sea salt butter. Around them sit the Hong Kong and Taiwanese bakery standards, pineapple bun, custard bun, red bean bun and taro bun, plus a cream cheese almond bun, a blueberry bun and a matcha mochi bun with buttercream. More flavors rotate in the store than the website lists, so read the labels as you walk the shelves.

On the savory shelf, the shredded pork bun is the top seller, followed by the green onion hot dog, a shredded pork bun with green onion, a hot dog and corn bun, a wheat bread with hot dog, a cheese and garlic bread and a spicy seaweed sausage bun. The Spicy Chicken Brick is made only at the San Gabriel shop. Vegetarians get two oriental vegetarian breads with no onion or garlic: vegan ham with cheese and corn, and mushroom and celery with cheddar.

The routine is simple: browse the open shelves around the room, pick what you want, then pay at the counter in the middle. Christy Q., reviewing in August 2026, said the cashiers let you sample some breads and take time to explain anything you ask about, which helps if green onion and shredded pork in a sweet bun are new to you. The shop accepts credit cards.

The famous items here cannot leave the building. Honey toasts and the volcano toast are dine-in only, served from 1:30 pm, and each takes 20 to 25 minutes to toast. The Strawberry Fantasy Honey Toast comes with fresh strawberries, custard cream, crème chantilly, a strawberry wafer, strawberry ice cream and house strawberry sauce. The Volcano Strawberry Toast stacks brick toast under vanilla ice cream, chantilly and a flood of vanilla and strawberry sauces.

Other versions include Chocolate Banana, a Marshmallow Honey Toast heaped with marshmallows and fresh fruit, and a Green Tea and Red Bean Pudding Honey Toast topped with homemade egg pudding and green tea ice cream. Yelp reviewers call the honey brick toast huge and pretty and say it is best shared by three or more. A solo visitor should skip it. Order a thick toast instead, which takes only 10 to 15 minutes.

Thick toast is also the one toast you can take away. The flavors are butter and milk, peanut butter, Nutella, strawberry, condensed milk and vanilla pineapple. Do not show up at 7:40 pm hoping for a volcano toast before the posted 8 pm close. With the 20 to 25 minute toasting time, you would be eating it as staff are closing, so plan the toast for mid-afternoon.

Oh My Pan is half bakery and half tea house, and the teas are brewed fresh daily. The fruit syrups are made from fresh fruit, and the iced tea list runs from passion fruit and lychee to dark plum, kumquat lemon and pomegranate pineapple. A few drinks are San Gabriel exclusives: Alisan high mountain iced oolong, sakura iced green tea and a caffeine-free honeybush tea.

The milk tea list goes deeper than most boba counters, with wheat germ milk tea, lychee rose, longan, lavender and both light and dark oolong milk teas. Frosted milk comes with pearls, grass jelly, pudding, taro or red bean, and there are more than 25 slushes. Connie Y., writing on Yelp in August 2026, said she first came in high school and was still coming back after college for the simple drinks and the pastries.

Single slices sit in the chilled case beside 6-inch cakes that serve 4 to 6, such as tiramisu and mango mousse. The 8-inch line serves 8 to 12 and includes black forest, matcha strawberry, crunchy chocolate, mango pudding, taro pudding and mixed fruit. Quarter-sheet to full-sheet cakes serve 20 to 80, and party trays come in a half sheet for 48 servings or a full sheet for 96. For custom or large orders, ask staff at the counter.

Not every 2026 review is glowing. A July 2026 Yelp reviewer complained about quality control after a cake and bread order with friends, so look over a cake in the case before you buy it whole. If the shelves look picked over, walk a few doors west to Sunny Bakery on Valley Boulevard, a mom-and-pop Chinese bakery known for its fresh fruit cream cakes and durian jelly rolls.

Oh My Pan Bakery & Tea, 801 E Valley Blvd #105, San Gabriel, CA 91776, near the Rosemead city line. Open Monday to Sunday 9 am to 8 pm. Honey and volcano toasts are dine-in only from 1:30 pm, with a 20 to 25 minute wait. Parking is in the ground-level lot behind the building and in the underground garage. Metro Line 76 runs along Valley Boulevard. Credit cards accepted.