Auntie EM's Fine Foods & Pastries

I just found out about this place when I picked up my order at Karilagan. Just tried their Bibingka with salted egg and Ube Bibingka and they're really good!

It's good... but it seems pricey.

Well it turns out that Aunt Em is indeed friendly.

Bring cash. It's 4 stars because over all we only enjoyed 2 out of 12 items. We but keep reading to see our favorites and must try.

We went on a Sunday afternoon and everything was in stock, fresh and available.

We bought one of EVERYTHING because we hadn't had any of these pastries before.

Most of them are a repeat of the same ingredients used in a different way. Butter, Sugar, Coconut in most of it. Everything was sweet, not overly sweet but even the savory items we slightly sweetened.

The four of us tried everything right away.

Here is what would consider we ordering again:

Cheese Rolls⭐️ $2 ea
Cheesy bread roll sweet, super flaky like baked fila dough coated with a sugar butter glaze. We could have order a couple of dozen.

Ube Ensaymada $4
Brioche bread buttery rich filled with ube extract and topped with cheese. The other flavored Ensaymadas were dolce de leche and cheese in the center, sweet, salted granulated cheese on top. In our opinion those flavors we not the business. The texture is good but not the flavor combo.

And maybe these:

Chicken Empanadas $4
Beef Empanadas $4
These have peas, carrots and potatoes with meat. These were decent. We tried these a million different ways so our palette for these is advanced.

Buko pie $5
Young coconut custard pie
You gotta love coconut to like this because it is literally a pot pie with tons sugary shedded coconut and chunks of coconut meat on the inside. Not really custardy at all. This was good but we won't get it again.

The Chicharrones $8, deep fried pig skin, feet, ears. Who really ever knows, but 2 of us liked those. The other 2 of us couldn't get past the smell. Stinkier than any pork rind/ anything that I have ever smelled.

We really don't have any experience with Filipino pastries so we couldn't really compare it to much. I have a feeling someone with a little more experience would really enjoy a lot of these. From what I have researched these are authentic style pastries. And would likely satisfy the tastebuds of someone looking for familiar flavors from their childhood and or travels.

Yummy authentic Filipino pastries

Love this place. Yummy desserts and fast & friendly service always-- just like MY Auntie Em.