Beard Papa's Boston

Such a nice dessert place to go at anytime! The puffs are super light where even after our Italian meal we could enjoy a good puff pastry. My friends really enjoyed the green tea puffs while I thought the cookies and cream one (not pictured, ate it too quickly 😂) was too perfect!

A small mochi and cream puff place in the outskirts of Chinatown. They only prepare and sell a few things, but they are all executed well. Tastes like mochi you'd eat anywhere, nothing too special here. They usually run out if some flavors towards the end of the day (and are sometimes out at the beginning of the day). The best flavor, in my opinion, is the mango. Nice and chewy, not too hard, not too soft. Not sure if they make them in-house. While they technically sell mochi, the cream puffs around the real stars of the show. You can tell they bake them right in the store. Partly because they taste great, but mostly because you can literally see them baking in transparent ovens behind the counter. You get to choose a flavor of shell (there are several), then one of their two fillings. I recommend the Dulce de Leche shell, with the vanilla filling. The shells are crispy without being crumby, and never soggy despite the filling. That being said, you should definitely eat them ASAP; they will get stale and don't hold up in the fridge that well. You know how when you buy something like a Hostess cupcake, and it's 99% cake and a tiny tiny blob of filling in the middle? This is absolutely not the case with these cream puffs. They are absolutely loaded with this delicious filling. The filling itself is creamy, flavorful, and plenty vallina-y without being cloyingly sweet. It's viscous enough to stay in the shell without making a huge mess on every bite. You should still grab a napkin, they aren't the cleanest things in the world to eat. These cream puffs are on the expensive side at $3.75 each. An extra $0.50 for the green tea flavored cream. While they are big enough so that one is perfect for a snack and two would be overkill, $4.25 for a single cream puff is a little steep. The immediate location around Beard Papa is a little rough (seemingly abandoned buildings etc), and at first glance you'd probably think what I thought: "... I don't really want to eat food from here". But fear not, the inside of Beard Papa looks exceptionally clean. Drop the price and offer a few more kinds of creams (they only have two at this location) and I'd say this is a 5-star snack place.