Bolo Bao
$4.00Hong Kong–style pineapple bun with a sweet, crackled cookie crust and a pillowy tangzhong-based interior.
Silk Road Bakes
Our Craft
Three things we
refuse to rush.
The Silk Road wasn't a single path — it was a thousand small exchanges that moved flavor, technique, and trust across borders. Our bakery sits on that same idea, two thousand years later.
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The Tangzhong Method
Every loaf begins with a slow water-roux starter — the Asian baker's secret to bread that stays cloud-soft for days.
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Small Batches, Fresh Daily
Mixed, shaped and baked the morning of pickup. No preservatives, no shortcuts — just unhurried craft.
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Rooted in Bay County
We trade and shop with our neighbor at the local farmer's market most Saturday mornings — building a more resilient food community, one purchase at a time.
01 — Signature Bakes
The Silk Road Collection
Current Pre-orders set for Pick-up on 7/25
Shokupan
$10.00Tall, cloud-soft Japanese milk bread. Hand-rolled, finished with a glossy crown, and pull-apart tender — built on a…
Sogeum-Ppang
$4.00Korean Salt Bread — Crispy, butter-fried bottom giving way to a pillowy, hollow core. Golden crust, coarse salt…
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Traditional Techniques · Modern Heart
02 — The Origin Story
Hand-made in
Meet the Baker
Hand-made in
Lynn Haven.
Silk Road Baking Co. is a love letter to the bakery cultures of East Asia, carried home to the Florida panhandle. Hong Kong bolo bao, Japanese shokupan, Korean salt bread — kneaded by hand, on a timeline measured in days.
Every loaf is built on the water roux known as "tangzhong," organic eggs, and high-fat European butter. Our second mission: strengthen the place we call home — buying from neighboring market booths and backing makers whose work supports their own communities, too.
The Baker
Spencer J. Chang.
I grew up in Riverside, California, and have been quietly obsessed with food since baking my first batch of chocolate crinkle cookies with a friend back in 2013. What I love most isn't the cooking itself — it's the meal shared after.
I started Silk Road because I missed the Asian-style baked goods I grew up around, and because I think a lot of folks out here haven't yet met them. The other half of why I'm doing this comes from a coffee roaster back home — Arcade Coffee Roasters — who showed me that a small business can be a real way to knit a community together.
I want our Bay County food community to be resilient: better connected to local produce, local meat, local craft. A bakery is a small contribution to that, but it's the one I can offer.
"Food travels best on the strength of the community that carries it."
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The Journal
The recipes carry stories.
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Common questions.
Tangzhong is a Japanese (originally Chinese) technique where a small portion of the flour and liquid is pre-cooked into a soft paste before being added to the dough. It traps moisture inside the bread, giving us that signature pillowy, long-lasting softness.
Place a pre-order by adding products to your cart and checking out. We bake to order in small batches for pickup in Lynn Haven on Saturday mornings. We'll confirm pickup details after you order.
We plan to accept pre-orders around every two weeks with pickups happening on Saturday from 10am to 11:30am. Next on the schedule are the weeks of 7/19-7/25 and 8/9-8/15.
Not yet — Silk Road is currently a local operation while we build our community. If you'd like updates on shipping or wholesale, drop your email through the contact form.
Occasionally we'll carry a small selection of complementary goods from other small U.S. makers — always companies whose mission is to strengthen their own local community. We'll always label what we baked vs. what we sourced.
Most of our breads contain dairy and egg (essential for the tangzhong-style softness). We're happy to flag what's in each item — just ask when ordering.
Contact
Order ahead. Pickup for a Saturday brunch.
Pre-orders close Thursday at midnight for pickup at mid-morning on Saturday. Wholesale, trade, or just curious — reach out anytime.