Baking & Co. (Shenzhen, CHINA) ★★★★☆

Baking & Co. is an artisan bakery café at RAIL-IN (睿印) Shopping Mall in Shenzhen’s Nanshan District, where baked goods are made fresh on-site in small batches to keep everything at its peak. While they don’t have a huge variety of products, their bread and cakes have quietly built a loyal following over the past few months thanks to consistently high quality.

I ended up dropping by the bakery just before heading to the rapid train station to see what they have in store for me. Not surprisingly, a lot of their items were already sold out leaving empty shelves everywhere inside the shop.

Well, almost everywhere except for their cake counter.

Baking & Co. offers two types of cakes only: a range of chiffon cakes and Basque burnt cheesecakes. I was eyeing their Basque cheesecake all the way. 

Sea salt pistachio strawberry Basque cheesecake (海鹽開心果草莓巴斯克) (¥38) — 

While their yuzu matcha Basque cheesecake gets most of the attention for its intensely rich matcha flavor, I decided to go in a different direction this afternoon.

Sea salt pistachio strawberry Basque cheesecake delivered a really bold pistachio flavor. The combination of roasted pistachios, homemade strawberry jam, and kiri cream cheese added a lovely contrast in both texture and taste, with everything working together to balance the richness of the cheesecake. I’ll definitely be back for one of these again soon.

Food Rating: 6.3/10

Price: ¥¥¥

Address: Shop B216, Level B2F, RAIL-IN Mall, Nanshan district, Guangzhou, China

深圳市南山区深圳湾睿印负2层B216店铺

Closest Metro Station: Hongshuwan (紅樹灣) / Hongshuwan South (紅樹灣南)

Tel: +86 13049430150

Opening Hours: 8:30am - 10:00pm (Mon - Thu), 8:30am - 10:30pm (Fri - Sun)

Map: https://j.map.baidu.com/bf/wDAM