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🔅Cantonese/British Microbakery @hailinleung
🔅Walthamstow, E17
🔆 NEXT BAKE: Sat 25 July POP UP @bakestreetldn

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🥺🥺🥺 How incredibly surreal... I’m just a crazy bread lady baking bread in her house!! 😭 I honestly had no idea where starting Lucky Yu would take me but it has been the most joyous rollercoaster for the last 2 years (and long may this ride continue). I have so much still to learn and never would have dreamed of being named alongside these bakery greats, many of whom have influenced me and helped me in my journey (@e5bakehouse , @subabakery in particular!) Thank you so much to all my customers who have always been kind, enthusiastic and up for trying new things. The creative process would not be the same without your excitement on the other side. Thanks to all those in the industry who I’ve met along the way and provided invaluable support and friendship. And finally, a HUGE thank you to George (who isn’t on IG) who stepped in to help with the morning set up and is now my lead FOH (ha-ha). Before that, I was doing it all on my own and there’s no way I could manage what I do now without him. Thanks @goodfoodguideuk @squareuk for including me, as a British/Cantonese microbakery, in this list. If the long thank you speech wasn’t enough - it’s an honour! by @luckyyubakery

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Hello! 👋🏼 My name’s Hai Lin and I’m setting up @luckyyubakery as a way to explore incorporating different flavours and products from my Cantonese heritage into and alongside ‘British Baking’. Expect to see sourdoughs next to Cantonese buns, red bean paste alongside chocolate and anything in between! I’ll be starting with just bread to make sure I’ve got my processes down, but will add buns and pastries to the menu in the future. If all testing goes well over the next week, I should be looking at my first drop in 2 weeks’ time! Thanks for following! 😁 @hailinleung #microbaker #sourdough #bread #london #baker #baking #cantonesebuns #londonbakery by @luckyyubakery

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Popping this on the grid for those thinking about coming to @bakestreetldn tomorrow morning! Bakes will be out from 11am. Don’t forget to leave room for their excellent weekend food menu as well as @chloerosecrabtree infamous creme brûlée 🍪 So many good things to choose from!!! See you there ✌🏼 by @luckyyubakery

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Imagine getting your weekend bread from a part-time doctor baking out of her East London basement window. 🥖✨Meet Hailin Leung, the mastermind behind Walthamstow’s Lucky Yu Bakery—serving up insane Cantonese-influenced sourdough and Fuyu parmesan buns.Here’s why it was just named one of Britain’s 50 best bakeries 👇#walthamstow #londonist #londonfoodie #londonbakery #eseaeats by @luckyyubakery

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‼️‼️SATURDAY 25th JULY ‼️‼️ Lucky Yu is coming back to @bakestreetldn and we’re mixing things up big time !! Expect some of the classics - OG Leen Go is back, baby! - and some fun, new items with a sprinkling of that Bake St magic ✨(anyone who has ever been will know of their way with food, and if you haven’t, this is your cue). Menu and timings will be shared in stories and on my page before the day. See you there! by @luckyyubakery

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Could 2026 be the year of the trifle?? Chiffon cake, lemon verbena custard, mascarpone chantilly, fresh 🍓, caramelised sesame seeds. Lemon verbena grown in our garden from a little sprig gifted us by lovely neighbours and plant wizards @francesd_plot7a and @ordinary_cloud 🌿💚🪄 Don’t @ me with your opinions on jelly. We are inclusive of all trifles here by @luckyyubakery

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A snippet from last weekend’s bake - aaahhh what a delight. I’m fully leaning into this fruit & veg bounty now, in fact I’m diving, head first, all the way in where I shall stay buried in strawberries, cherries, peaches, and all that is to come. Goodbye!! If you need me I’ll be in here fermenting 🫧💦🍓🍒🫐🍐🌞 Thanks so much to @mtpmtpmtpmtp for lending a much needed hand over the weekend (and for the 📸 ) along with fellow trifle lover @harrisonisms . And last but not least to those of you who came along!! Ever grateful for all the support. Taking a wee break for the next couple of weeks, back for something exciting end of July! 🍦 by @luckyyubakery

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Back at @luckyyubakery for the first time in far too long. Obviously started with my staple fuyu swirl, but my favourite today was actually the red bean custard bun, which I absolutely devoured — too fast to even remember to take a photo of its innards. Now sitting here, watching the tennis, and regretting not buying one or two for the road. by @luckyyubakery

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Cranked up the heat last week for the lucky residents @theeades.walthamstow and their summer BBQ! On the menu we had: 🌶️ Sichuan pepper (麻辣) tomato swirls with whipped goats cheese and fresh coriander 🍄 char siu mushroom puffs in chinese flaky pastry I don’t take many commissions but catering for somewhere local felt right (and the chance for a little summer evening boogey with a BBQ on a lovely leafy terrace!? Go on then 😏). The shady terrace, was the ideal place to spend such a hot evening and with views looking out over central London, it reminded me a lot of balmy Hong Kong nights. Not a bad set up for rental living 🌇 Thanks to residents for lovely chats and letting me be a part of your community for the night! Building and feeling a part of community has been a huge motivator for me in sustaining Lucky Yu, and I’m immensely grateful to @theeades.walthamstow and @wayoflifeuk for donating a whopping £1000 to @ESEACC as part of this commission!! 🙌 Let the good times roll on and on! #Ad by @luckyyubakery

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Evening! I hope you all survived the heat last weekend. I am incredibly glad that we’re onto somewhat cooler weather* (turns out George is a lizard but I am very much not and the heat ground me to an absolute halt most days). Thankfully my windowless basement really came into its own 🤣 And now that the haze has lifted from my brain, I’ve got a really exciting summer menu for you all this weekend - fruit abound!!Date/time: Sat 4th July June, 10.30am - 12.30pmLocation: 12 Hamilton Road, E17 6EHPre-order: link in bio 🔗🔗 The cake pictured is inspiration for this weekend’s “trifle”. I know it doesn’t have jelly in the description, don’t @ me. And no trifle haters please!! Hope you all have a good week and hopefully catch you on the weekend!Hai Lin *sadly we are bound to have more of these extreme weather events, a scary scary thing 😢 the climate crisis is real, folks by @luckyyubakery

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Not sure I could ever get tired of this combo but I’m willing to try 😏 🔴 fresh strawberries⚪️ coconut creme legere🟢 pandan custard🟤 olive oil brioche Brioche made with @honest_toil and 100% stoneground Maris wigeon, grown on Priors Farm and milled by @landracemilling 🤎 maybe this will make another appearance before the strawberries are out! Next bake is SATURDAY 4th JULY, pre order and menu out tomorrow eve 7pm 😙 by @luckyyubakery

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Hai Lin Leung @hailinleung is a doctor, baker, and owner of Cantonese/British microbakery Lucky Yu @luckyyubakery in London.𓆝 𓆟 𓆝 In her signature bakes, Leung draws on both her Cantonese and English backgrounds for unique creations like Sesame Soy Congee Sourdough loaves, “Pandan aux Raisins,” and Doubanjiang Parmesan twists. But one of the biggest reasons that lines form around the block from her fortnightly pop-ups are her gloriously golden baked and filled buns.Leung puts great thought into the ingredients and flavor combinations of each. “There’s a balance of what textures and qualities of the filling you want the person to experience as they see it, as they bite into it,” she tells Jasmine Ting @jasminepting .Read the full interview in the latest dispatch of the Above the Fold newsletter at the link in bio, or visit www.abovethefoldpress.com. Subscribe on Substack to discover more wonderful dumpling-makers from all around the world, and follow @abovethefolddumplings for all things dumplings. 🥟 by @luckyyubakery

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