Lackluster experience here after ordering a 6” chestnut birthday cake. I expected it to have 2 layers and it to contain the light, airy chestnut I’m used to having at other Chinese cake bakeries but it was one layer with the top layer a sickenly sweet, dense “chestnut” (tasted more like mung bean) filling and a mound of whipped cream. You can tell even from the untouched cake picture that the top is mostly cream and filling. For $42 it was not worth it at all. I won’t be back.
Jimmy
I buy the durian cake here for every one of my family members birthdays. Their cakes are layered with fresh fruits and actual durian fruit. The prices are very reasonable. I’ve been going here for many years and they maintain the quality throughout the years. American cakes are boring and way to sweet.
Daniel S.
I am back for breakfast from a few weeks ago. Just the right mix of flavors for me. The food is simple but the flavor is great. I love the tea: it's a little bittersweet. It's quiet on a Sunday morning with background chatter. The furniture is a little old but the atmosphere is relaxing. There are just a few seats but enough.
Kristin N.
Chinese bakeries are so so underrated. Eldo is great for their dan tat and their cakes. The 6in were like $20-24 and so good. This dan tat is like $1.5, which was more expensive than the last time I got it, but still really cheap considering the cost of inflation today, and well worth it. The dan tat itself is flakey, custardy, it sells out so get it earlier in the day and when it is especially good when it is fresh and hot out of the oven. The cakes were the typical Chinese style cakes: not too sweet, soft, fluffy, fruity, and with cream instead of frosting, which is a hundred times better than the American ones. Eldo is CASH ONLY!! I have seen a lot of the reviews here about the service. I didn't really experience any of that, but I also feel like it's one of the places that judge you if you don't speak Cantonese but look like one.
Tamara H.
Got my birthday cake from here, it was delicious and very well priced!! The cake was so soft and not too sweet and the mango was so delicious!! Highly recommend ordering the mango cake.
John L.
ZERO star customer service. The lady was VERY RUDE as she tried to stuff 5 bread into a foam box with 4 egg tarts...are you serious? Asked her to put that in a separate container and she talked back rudely. Food is ok but the staff lack basic customer service skills.
David R
The mango cake is not very tasty, and expensive.Saw rave reviews about this cake and got it for my mango-loving daughter's birthday. Unfortunately it's nicer to look at than to eat.For those who are considering it, the cake consists of lightly sweet white sponge cake (reminiscent of dense white Wonder Bread in texture and taste) with whipped cream and mango chunks between layers, topped with mango slices. The mango is tart and not very flavorful. I was hoping it would be filled with some type of mango mousse, but it's not.I imagine their other fruit cake is similar, but would probably work better as the strawberries and/or other berries would complement the light cake and cream better than the tart and tasteless mango.
Johnny H.
The cake is ok. I ordered a "special" cake, the chestnut cake first time around. The lady asks for my credit card info. I do not feel comfortable giving such private information out for a $45 dollar cake. But the lady reinforced me to make sure I better pick it up and I told her I will. Second time around they are still asking for credit card info. I said I don't feel comfortable giving that info out. The lady said ok ok. And I said, "ok thank you, I'll see you soon"Sounds like she was going to make the cake. She wrote the date, my number and the time that I was going to pick it up. I called at 11:30am went to pick it up at 330pm. Turns out they did NOT make the cake. Very disappointed in the shoddy customer service. I will never go here again. They promised customer a "special" birthday cake but Eldo Cake house did not deliver.
David Y.
This is the second time I've called to place an order for a dozen pork buns so they would hold them aside for me. I gave them plenty of time as I called at 10am for a 5pm pickup. I received a call from Eldos at 3:45 to tell me that they only have 7 left. This is the second time that this has happened and it is the last time. Their service is terrible and they don't know how to hold pre-orders.
william j.
We have been to Eldo cake many times and they consistently produce an excellent product. Customer service is top notch.
I bought 2 boxes ( identical) of pastries for my brothers and dropped off since I am on business In Boston. Received this text from one of them after I dropped pastries off and on way home. Very angry. ! It was hard as a rock.The bao bao were fresh. But the individual pieces of cake aren’t. I guess they don’t move fast enough and they don’t throw it out. Just keep selling it.
D.J. M.
Our daughter took us to Eldo in Boston Chinatown for the best egg tart in Boston. I'm not a dessert eater (10 or less dessert per year). I tried one. I would agree that this is one of best egg tart I eaten. DJ's rating: 4.3/5.0. Would I come back? Yes, if I feel like having a dessert.
A. Makela
Excellent cakes made with real ingredients (cream and fruit)! Yummy!
Ph N.
If they have 0 star option I would rate this business 0. The customer service is the worst! they like to yell at you for asking the price. I ordered 6" durian cake and when I came to pick up the lady asked me : "any message?" I didn't even finish the sentence, she looked at me and said its too small to write anything on!!! So why did you ask me what to write on it???? Because the cake was too small so I just wanted to ask prices for different sizes, she yelled at me :" what do you want? It will be a 100$ for bigger size!" At that point I think I am done with her so I just left with frustration and anger!!
Oliver H.
Delicious roast pork and custard buns. Their mango cake is also amazing. The exterior is layers of shingled sliced mango with fresh, fluffy vanilla cake layers within and a layer of whipped cream between those cake layers (freshly made, not that canned artificial nonsense), a great option for people looking for something less sweet than usual. Another reason why Eldo will always have my patronage is that they seem to be the only bakery that I've found in Chinatown that don't use plastic to wrap every single bun / pastry. The little chocolate cakes etc still are wrapped in plastic but the roast pork buns etc come in the wax / parchment paper.
Lackluster experience here after ordering a 6” chestnut birthday cake. I expected it to have 2 layers and it to contain the light, airy chestnut I’m used to having at other Chinese cake bakeries but it was one layer with the top layer a sickenly sweet, dense “chestnut” (tasted more like mung bean) filling and a mound of whipped cream. You can tell even from the untouched cake picture that the top is mostly cream and filling. For $42 it was not worth it at all. I won’t be back.
I buy the durian cake here for every one of my family members birthdays. Their cakes are layered with fresh fruits and actual durian fruit. The prices are very reasonable. I’ve been going here for many years and they maintain the quality throughout the years. American cakes are boring and way to sweet.
I am back for breakfast from a few weeks ago. Just the right mix of flavors for me. The food is simple but the flavor is great. I love the tea: it's a little bittersweet. It's quiet on a Sunday morning with background chatter. The furniture is a little old but the atmosphere is relaxing. There are just a few seats but enough.
Chinese bakeries are so so underrated. Eldo is great for their dan tat and their cakes. The 6in were like $20-24 and so good. This dan tat is like $1.5, which was more expensive than the last time I got it, but still really cheap considering the cost of inflation today, and well worth it. The dan tat itself is flakey, custardy, it sells out so get it earlier in the day and when it is especially good when it is fresh and hot out of the oven. The cakes were the typical Chinese style cakes: not too sweet, soft, fluffy, fruity, and with cream instead of frosting, which is a hundred times better than the American ones. Eldo is CASH ONLY!! I have seen a lot of the reviews here about the service. I didn't really experience any of that, but I also feel like it's one of the places that judge you if you don't speak Cantonese but look like one.
Got my birthday cake from here, it was delicious and very well priced!! The cake was so soft and not too sweet and the mango was so delicious!! Highly recommend ordering the mango cake.
ZERO star customer service. The lady was VERY RUDE as she tried to stuff 5 bread into a foam box with 4 egg tarts...are you serious? Asked her to put that in a separate container and she talked back rudely. Food is ok but the staff lack basic customer service skills.
The mango cake is not very tasty, and expensive.Saw rave reviews about this cake and got it for my mango-loving daughter's birthday. Unfortunately it's nicer to look at than to eat.For those who are considering it, the cake consists of lightly sweet white sponge cake (reminiscent of dense white Wonder Bread in texture and taste) with whipped cream and mango chunks between layers, topped with mango slices. The mango is tart and not very flavorful. I was hoping it would be filled with some type of mango mousse, but it's not.I imagine their other fruit cake is similar, but would probably work better as the strawberries and/or other berries would complement the light cake and cream better than the tart and tasteless mango.
The cake is ok. I ordered a "special" cake, the chestnut cake first time around. The lady asks for my credit card info. I do not feel comfortable giving such private information out for a $45 dollar cake. But the lady reinforced me to make sure I better pick it up and I told her I will. Second time around they are still asking for credit card info. I said I don't feel comfortable giving that info out. The lady said ok ok. And I said, "ok thank you, I'll see you soon"Sounds like she was going to make the cake. She wrote the date, my number and the time that I was going to pick it up. I called at 11:30am went to pick it up at 330pm. Turns out they did NOT make the cake. Very disappointed in the shoddy customer service. I will never go here again. They promised customer a "special" birthday cake but Eldo Cake house did not deliver.
This is the second time I've called to place an order for a dozen pork buns so they would hold them aside for me. I gave them plenty of time as I called at 10am for a 5pm pickup. I received a call from Eldos at 3:45 to tell me that they only have 7 left. This is the second time that this has happened and it is the last time. Their service is terrible and they don't know how to hold pre-orders.
We have been to Eldo cake many times and they consistently produce an excellent product. Customer service is top notch.
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I bought 2 boxes ( identical) of pastries for my brothers and dropped off since I am on business In Boston. Received this text from one of them after I dropped pastries off and on way home. Very angry. ! It was hard as a rock.The bao bao were fresh. But the individual pieces of cake aren’t. I guess they don’t move fast enough and they don’t throw it out. Just keep selling it.
Our daughter took us to Eldo in Boston Chinatown for the best egg tart in Boston. I'm not a dessert eater (10 or less dessert per year). I tried one. I would agree that this is one of best egg tart I eaten. DJ's rating: 4.3/5.0. Would I come back? Yes, if I feel like having a dessert.
Excellent cakes made with real ingredients (cream and fruit)! Yummy!
If they have 0 star option I would rate this business 0. The customer service is the worst! they like to yell at you for asking the price. I ordered 6" durian cake and when I came to pick up the lady asked me : "any message?" I didn't even finish the sentence, she looked at me and said its too small to write anything on!!! So why did you ask me what to write on it???? Because the cake was too small so I just wanted to ask prices for different sizes, she yelled at me :" what do you want? It will be a 100$ for bigger size!" At that point I think I am done with her so I just left with frustration and anger!!
Delicious roast pork and custard buns. Their mango cake is also amazing. The exterior is layers of shingled sliced mango with fresh, fluffy vanilla cake layers within and a layer of whipped cream between those cake layers (freshly made, not that canned artificial nonsense), a great option for people looking for something less sweet than usual. Another reason why Eldo will always have my patronage is that they seem to be the only bakery that I've found in Chinatown that don't use plastic to wrap every single bun / pastry. The little chocolate cakes etc still are wrapped in plastic but the roast pork buns etc come in the wax / parchment paper.