San & Wolves is the new vegan bakery Filipina de Long Beach with lines in the block

Some of the most wanted cakes in San & Wolves Bakeshop are sprouting with UBE, covered with fresh salted caramel or showers in shaved cheddar cheese, they are Filipinos and are vegan.

After years of emerging windows, partners Kym Estrada and Arvin Torres opened their long -awaited store along the 4th Street corridor on Long Beach this month.

Homemade butter, sweetened condensed milk, halaya and other ingredients from scratch are the construction blocks in San & Wolves, which also serve Filipinos classics based on freshly baked plants such as Buko Pie, Pandesal, Bitsu-Bitsu and Tested, As Newer takes Filipino flavors such as Ube Pop-Tarts and Pandan Cinnamon Buns.

Estrada, who has been vegan more than half of his life, joked: “I don't even know how to break an egg.”

The Sunny Bakery sells from its sweets almost every day of the week, with a line that often crawls through the block.

“Seeing him where he is now, he hardly feels real,” Torres said. “Every time someone wants to try our cakes, or they return, it is a very proud moment for me, and it is really great to put people in Filipino cakes. And then for him [customers] They are Filipino, they are super publicized and the fact that it is vegan. “

Estrada began to try recipes a vegan version of coconut bread, a sweet and tasty bun full of UBE and Coco, almost a decade ago. Torres, who was not Vegan at that time, recalled that he knew just as the non -vegan versions of his childhood, and became the first element in the emerging menu.

Bitsu-Bitsu freshly fried is covered in homemade salty caramel.

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Estrada began with monthly appearances in 2017 in New York City, and when the duo moved to Long Beach in 2019 to be closer to his friends and family, they resumed San & Wolves, who won dozens of new fans through The in the full market, better and more.

Frustrated that they could not keep up with the demand for their products, selling regularly before everyone in the row could try, began to plan a brick and mortar house, something that Estrada thought he would never do.

“I always thought I didn't want one, because I felt it was unattainable,” he said. “It's a lot of money, it's a lot of work.” But they attended business classes, reached a business coach and began looking for a space. They renewed an old Marcos store throughout the last year, and now wide natural light there are Bibingka shelves of blueberry corn, donuts only for weekends and other items.

The bakery allowed them to expand production; Now it takes about five hours to run out, instead of the hour or two of its emerging windows. Most of its menu is repeated from emerging windows, but a new element in the cold box, chickpea sliding controls with mustard salad salad in Pandesal, is the first of the new salty items to come.

Now they also sell coffee: Teofilo, based in the Alamitos, which obtains all its beans from the Philippines.

The pastry case in San & Wolves, a Vgan Filipina bakery in Long Beach.

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Estrada hopes that those who only discover the rainbow of the flavors, tones and textures that are in San & Wolves will encourage others to look for some of the oldest philippine bakeries in the region too, Like United Breta & Pastry or Valerio's. And as much as they are excited to attract the new and younger public, both towers and stress want to remain accessible to the major generations of Filipinos; All their ATMs speak tagalo and value their comments.

“I think having their approval, the Filipino elders, is very validant to me,” said Estrada. “I would say that most of our clients are Filipino, which feels very good to listen because they are those who have some kind of comparison of what they are eating. We just want your respect. “

San & Wolves is located at 3900 E. 4th St., Long Beach, open from Tuesday to Sunday from 7:30 am to 3 pm or until it was exhausted.