Hamada-ya - Irvine

This bakery inside Mitsuwa is everything of goodness! I love getting breads here! They have thick and thin Japanese white bread for sale here. Now they offer half bag size too so if you don't want to buy a full loaf, you can buy half. It is pricey but it is so good. I also like their other bread, the darker brown swirl loaves one, I forgot that they're called, but they are more expensive. Their chocolate cream puff is also delicious! Most of their pastries are yummy but I love love getting Japanese breads here! Yummy!!

Always good! Have not had anything bad here. Like the iced milk tea, houjicha latte, and the mixed vanilla and green matcha tea ice cream. Good sandwiches all the pastries are good.

This awesome bakery is located inside Mitsuwa marketplace in Irvine. Compared to other Hamada-Ya's, it's quite small. However, their quality of baked goods is still excellent. They still offer the to go packages of bread for sandwiches, and they also have soft serve. If you get there early enough, get their curry pan!! This is one of our fav spots to get this savory donut filled with warm curry. Since this bakery is a smaller than other locations, the variety of baked goods is small, but what they do offer is all of the popular items. Aside from curry pan, we got an almond danish and a chocolate donut. My kids destroyed the donuts, and said they were super chocolatey. This is a great place to stop for high quality baked goods on the go. Next time I'll need to try the soft serve everyone raves about.

Y'all ever had cereal in your soft serve?! Even though the cashier looked at me like I was crazy when I requested for cereal with my soft serve turns out it's something you can get here! But for reals though I heard that you can get cereal here and it wasn't on the menu so could be like a secret menu type of thing. The matcha soft serve here was on the bitter side when it comes to matcha but unlike other matcha soft serves I've had, this one was more concentrated and you can taste the earthy matcha flavors. On top of that, it is also creamier (thiccc er) than others, which I value in ice cream. The cereal topping I got was similar to a cinnamon toast crunch but without the sugar all over. Together, the dessert as a whole wasn't super sweet but it definitely satisfied my dessert stomach. If you don't have a humongous sweet tooth, I would recommend the soft serve here!!

Lots of delicious snacks here! Always great customer service too. I always order the coffee jelly drink, half sugar and baravian chocolate. Their cookies are good as well! The soft serve matcha is also great.