Dang Wen Li - Dominique Ansel Bakery Hong Kong

Address: Shop OT G36A, G/F, Ocean Terminal, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Phone: (852) 2613 8618 
Email: info@dangwenli.com
Hours: Monday to Thursday 10am to 9:30pm
            Friday to Sunday 10am to 10pm

Dang Wen Li is a bakery recently opened in Hong Kong in 2020 owned by Chef Dominique Ansel. Dang Wen Li is the pronunciation in Cantonese for Dominique.

Chef Dominique Ansel is a French born chef who was raised in New York and earned James Beard Award, famous for his creativity and food inspiration. He opened his first bakery in New York with only four employees, then expanded to open bakeries in London, Los Angeles and now Hong Kong. Chef Dominique has made lots of fêted pastries, for example the popular ones are:

  • Cronut (it was known as the 25 Best invention of 2013)

  • Frozen S’more

  • Hot chocolate with blossom

  • Cookie Shot

Besides, Chef Dominique was known as World Best Pastry Chef in 2017 from World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards. He was named after several titles, “the Willy Wonka of New York” from New York Post, “Culinary Van Gogh”,l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole - France’s second highest honor and more.  Chef Dominique Ansel had worked as executive pastry chef in restaurant Daniel, where he and the team earned three Michelin Star with four-star review from The NewYork Time.

Chef Dominique Ansel opens Dang Wen Li as he wants to showcase his signature pastry goods with influenced of Hong Kong food culture that are creative and only available in Hong Kong. He wants people to know that food is importantly link to memories, so by creating pastries that relate to people in the location is nostalgia. Food is another form to show the value of time. He wants people to have a unique experience of pastry.

In the bakery, it sells amazing pastries that captures local attention and soon become local favorites, for example:

  • Pineapple Buns ( Coconut Pineapple Passionfruit Cake)
  • Hong Kong Lemon Juice Box ( Looks similar to Hong Kong Lemon tea package from Vitasoy)
  • Black and White milk ( Salted Caramel Panna Cotta)
  • Thousand Year Egg( Hazelnut Coffee Tart)
  • Hong Kong Milk Tea Cookie Shot
  • Fish Balls
  • Chestnut Madeleines and more



Hong Kong series of pastries are very creative, with the store just opened, it has already attracted a long line of people want to dine in the bakery or order for takeout. Lots of pastries were sold out fast. Pastries from the bakery are very delicate, beautiful, picture worthy and delicious. If you ever want to try parties that infuse of Hong Kong and French culture, you must visit the Dang Wen Li, the Dominique Ansel Bakery in Hong Kong.