Despite my penchant for artisan breads, the bakery that I visit the most in town is the Hong Kong style Mei Sum Bakery [1].

Mei Sum Bakery, 8001 SE Powell Blvd., Portland, OR 97206, 503.777.3391

The cakes are very cool looking.

But I come for the buns! Pork buns, pineapple buns, raisin buns, onion buns.

All very inexpensive, all very good. Hey, those buns look an awful lot like melon bread [2], don't they?

I have no idea what this says, but it is on the wall there and it is cute!

Oh yeah, and they have bubble tea too!