Huge Tree Pastry - Monterey Park

I haven’t gotten back to this little old fashioned Taiwanese breakfast spot. They serve traditional Taiwanese/Chinese breakfast dishes, pastries and more. I got some Purple Rice Fan Tuan with Eggs and Pickles, rice peanut milk, and Chinese fried donut.

I very rarely write reviews to begin with and this may be my very first 1-star review in my 32 years of life, but that just highlights how upset this experience made me. To preface everything, I am a Taiwanese American vegetarian who loves the kind of food that Huge Tree offers. I am from San Jose, but I make it a point to come to Huge Tree for my Taiwanese breakfast fix whenever I 'm in the area. However, this may end after today. I called in a take-out order for 6 fan tuans, 2 salty soymilks, and 2 you tiaos (totaling $70.50) and drove 25m one-way from Arcadia to pick up my order and took it home to share with my family. I set everything up and discovered that the salty soymilks were actually sweet soymilks. OK, that 's fine, everyone makes mistakes. I 'll just tell them about the mixup and ask to swap the sweet soymilk for salty ones. I 'm annoyed that I 'll have to drive back to fix my order, but fine, I 'll take it as a lesson to check my order before leaving next time. However, when I called the lady owner and explained the situation, she first deflects responsibility by saying that salty and sweet sound similar in Chinese and claimed that it 's both of our faults that this miscommunication happened. That 's not true... I definitely said salty and if she misheard that as sweet , that 's her issue. Also, I 'm pretty sure she repeated the order back to me afterwards and confirmed 2 salty soymilks. Alright, fine, I don 't really care why this mistake happened. I just want to get my order fixed. When I tell her that I want to come back and switch the soymilks, she says that the salty soymilk is $1.75 more expensive than the sweet soymilk and asked me to pay the difference of $3.50 for the two salty soymilk swaps. At this point, I 'm starting to get mad because if a restaurant messes up my order and I bring back the untouched food (just to prove I 'm not trying to take advantage and get free food), I feel like the business should comp that small difference to apologize for the mistake. Not only do I have to waste 50 minutes of time and gas for a second round-trip drive in 100 degree heat (check temp records for Monterey Park on 8/20/24), I have to pay the $3.50 difference for Huge Tree 's mistake. This is now a matter of principle, not money. When I was growing up, my parents always taught me to be proud of my Taiwanese heritage and that Taiwanese people are honest and upright, so I should strive to uphold this reputation. However, today, Huge Tree 's elderly Taiwanese owners proved that not all Taiwanese people are honest and I am ashamed for them. If they weren 't so shameless, I would not be writing such a scathing review over just $3.50. They are already cash-only, which allows them to save unknown amounts of tax money by misreporting to the IRS, but also don 't treat their customers with basic respect. Despite my love for Taiwanese breakfast foods, I would not mind if this place closed down. I will look elsewhere for my Taiwanese breakfast fix. @Huge Tree owners, shame on you.

I like their Taiwanese grilled pork belly, fried dough sticks and soy milk. The quality is not inferior to Taiwan's Yonghe Soy Milk chain store. Although the sesame seed cakes and fried dough sticks are not freshly baked or fried, they are grilled before being served and the texture is still crispy. Parking: The Dashu Breakfast Shop is located on the north side of the Greater China Supermarket in Mengcheng City. The parking lots are located on the north and south sides of the supermarket, but the two parking lots are not connected.

Going to this little shop today was the most unforgettable experience in my life! The service attitude of the lady at the front desk was very bad, like Mrs. Ah Qing, she looked like she was dying. I asked her how much a fried dough stick cost, and she quickly said with a sad look, you see for yourself. I don’t know if she treats every customer like this. Same? Do you think I'm not handsome enough? But I think she is too crazy about customers from the mainland, and I hope people from the mainland will be mentally prepared.

Excellent, take out only Taiwanese spot. Get any of these items and you’re in for a treat: Fantuan Green onion pancake Turnip cake Hot milk Service is pretty friendly. Cash only.