Mom's Bake Shop

I used to live around the area and also used to buy the birthday cakes here. Back then the cakes were good but then a couple of times I wound find a strand of hair baked inside the cake and so I stopped buying from them. I also tasted the food, but it was just so so. Nobody really eats here and I am suprised they can still afford to be in business.  Maybe back in the 90's they were the hot filipino restaurant but now there are new filipino restaurants / bakery that offer better and fresher meals / pastries.

To be fair, the lady owner is very sweet and nice and if I didn't care about how fresh the pastries / desserts are, they're actually good.But if I was really desperate for filipino food I'd rather go to unimart then here. Sorry.

ROFL! Ok maybe I don't know anything about this, but I lived near San Bruno in California and there was this AMAZING bakery shop there called Red Ribbon. They had this mocha cake roll TO DIE FOR. It was a wonderful little Filipino shop. I assumed Moms would be the same. Today is my 40th birthday and I dragged my boyfriend and baby son in a thunderstorm all the way from Northbrook to try Moms mocha cake roll.

IT TASTES LIKE ASS.

I am seriously considering taking the roll and leaving it on their doorstep with a sign on it saying "Thanks but no thanks...I have enough ASS as it is."

I still remember going to Mom's old location as a kid for some pancit palabok or mami & siopao (filipino chicken noodle soup and steamed pork buns).  Several years later Mom's is still going, but I swear I never see anyone in here when I do stop by.  Most traditional filipino dishes are available, but Mom's is probably still best known for their mocha cake and ube (a.k.a., "purple") cake made from filipino purple yams.