01 / Sea saltAED 12
Sea Salt Sourdough Roll
Soft sourdough, butter folded through, a finish of sea salt on top.
Japanese & Korean bakery in Abu Dhabi
Japanese and Korean baking, made on Level 3 of The Galleria
Everything on this page is baked in our kitchen on Level 3, most of it on sourdough. The Coffee Bun, the Korean sea-salt rolls, the taro bun, the sourdough croissant — the kitchen starts on them at 4am and keeps baking in batches until 10pm. This page is what we make, how we make it, and what it costs.
Baked on Level 3
The Coffee Bun — AED 16
Someone searching for this wants the classic crunch of the shell, the soft dough underneath, and the creamy coffee filling inside.
That's exactly what it is. A soft, enriched bun, filled with coffee cream, then coated before baking so the outside sets into a thin, crisp, coffee-flavoured crust that cracks when you bite it. The contrast is the point: crisp shell, soft bun, coffee cream. It's best in the first hour out of the oven, which at hy means most hours, because we bake in batches through the day rather than once at dawn.
Ours is baked here, on Level 3, every day.
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Sogeum-ppang and friends
The Korean sourdough rolls — from AED 12
Someone searching for these wants the classic Asian flavours — sea salt, chocolate, or sesame — inside a soft, buttery sourdough roll.
02 / ChocolateAED 12
Chocolate Sourdough Roll
Same roll, chocolate through the centre.
03 / Black sesameAED 14
Black Sesame Sourdough Roll
Same roll, with the toasted depth of black sesame.
Sea Salt Sourdough Roll — AED 12. A Korean-style roll: soft sourdough, butter folded through, a finish of sea salt on top. In Seoul this is sogeum-ppang, salt bread, and it's the most-searched Korean bakery item in Abu Dhabi right now for good reason. Ours is on sourdough rather than a plain white dough, which gives it a little tang under the butter.
Chocolate Sourdough Roll — AED 12. Same roll, chocolate through the centre.
Black Sesame Sourdough Roll — AED 14. Same roll, with the toasted depth of black sesame — nutty, slightly bitter, the least sweet of the three.
All three are baked on site. Same dough, three directions.
Asian buns
The Asian buns — from AED 18
Soft sourdough buns in a couple of directions: a chocolate and banana version, and the Purple Taro Bun — AED 18 — where a smooth ube taro filling is baked right into a soft purple sourdough shell. Same care with the dough, different fillings. The taro bun is the one that gets photographed; it's also the one customers name most often in reviews.
Our classic croissants — butter, almond, cheese — come from Noble Bakery in Dubai, and we say so. What we make here is the sourdough croissant: the same lamination, but on a sourdough base, which gives a deeper flavour and a slightly more open crumb than a straight yeasted croissant. Sea Salt Sourdough Croissant is the one on the counter most mornings. If you haven't had a sourdough croissant before, this is the reason to.
Our kitchen starts at 4am. First job is baking off the bakery range for the day, then the team moves onto prepping fresh vegetables and sealing meats ready for service. From there, baking continues in batches right through until 10pm — so there's always something coming out of the oven rather than one big bake first thing and nothing after.
That's why the Coffee Bun is usually warm, why the rolls don't sit, and why the counter looks different at 4pm than it did at 9am.
Noble Bakery in Dubai supplies our sourdough loaves and our traditional croissants. It lets us bring in a couple of specific things we don't make in-house, while everything else — the buns and the sourdough rolls — is baked fresh on-site every day.
We'd rather tell you that than pretend. Noble Bakery has its own 4.9 rating at Wafi City; their loaves are the base of every sandwich on our lunch menu.
Not Japanese or Korean, but they belong on this page because they come out of the same oven and they're what a lot of people come in for. Cream Cheese Pecan (AED 22), Mango Sticky Rice (AED 22), Strawberry & Cream (AED 22), Chocolate (AED 24), Pistachio Kunafa (AED 26). Box of three AED 65, box of six AED 115.
Is hy Bakery a Japanese bakery?
Japanese and Korean-inspired, on a sourdough base, baked on site at The Galleria. Our sourdough loaves and classic croissants come from Noble Bakery in Dubai.
What is a Coffee Bun?
A soft bun with a coffee cream filling and a thin, crisp coffee crust. AED 16 at hy.
What is Korean salt bread?
A soft buttery roll finished with sea salt. Ours is on sourdough, AED 12.
Is the bakery halal?
Yes, the whole menu.
What time is the bakery freshest?
All day. The kitchen bakes in batches from 4am to 10pm.