Originally Posted by
BuildingMyBento
Did the sweet roll have a coconut cream filling, or was it just unctuously abbreviated with coconut flakes?
Either of those are among the rare purchases I'd make at a HK/Chinatown bakery (my usual go-to, at least when in HK, is called "wooden milk bread"). One place in San Francisco had what was called in English a "coconut volcano," which was the best version I've eaten up until now.
It didn't really have a filling but was slashed before baking and probably had some sort of condensed milk butter mixture stuffed in the slashes and then the coconut flake container upended on it
Very fragrant but also extremely messy to eat. I made absolutely sure that I had brushed all the coconut off myself, but still kept on finding ninja flakes popping up here and there during the day.
That coconut volcano sounds good, was it in SF Chinatown?