Chim Chim

A small Thai bakery on a quiet stretch of East 20th Street, where the cake case runs to Southeast Asian flavors you rarely find in a New York bakery: Thai iced tea, coconut pandan, butterfly pea, taro with salted egg and pork floss, sweet corn. It is mostly a takeout counter with a few seats, and the shop is as cute as the cakes.

Start with a slice of the rusty-orange Bangkok Thai tea cake, herbal and not too sweet, with a Thai coffee. Whole cakes, pies and trays of blondies are made to pre-order, from a coconut pandan chiffon to a five-layer butterfly pea and coconut jelly pie that needs a week's notice.