Sea Salt Sourdough Roll
A sourdough roll finished with sea salt.
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 Sea Salt Sourdough Roll, the Purple Taro Bun — 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.
Chocolate Sourdough Roll
A chocolate-flavored sourdough roll.
Blueberry Sourdough Roll
A blueberry-flavored sourdough roll.
Black Sesame Sourdough Roll
A sourdough roll with black sesame.
Korean Garlic Sourdough Roll
A Korean-style garlic sourdough roll.
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 them.
All five are baked on site. Same dough, five directions.
Asian buns
The Asian buns — from AED 18
Explore the Choco Banana Bun and Purple Taro Bun at AED 18 each. See the full menu for the current bakery selection.
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.
Choose from eight Ceylon cinnamon rolls: Cream Cheese Coco, Cream Cheese Pecan, Mango Sticky Rice and Strawberries & Cream (AED 22 each), Ube Cashew (AED 24), Date & Sesame and Salted Caramel Almond (AED 25 each), and Lotus Crumbs (AED 26).
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.
