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