Mix nut pie (90 cents), melon cake with egg yolk (cutaway view, $1.10). For the variety of more-substantial pastries, the sort that travel well, this is my favorite bakery in Boston's Chinatown. For the price, too: If I'd forsaken the yolk, I probably could have kept the total under two bucks.
Ho Yuen Bakery
54 Beach St. (Harrison Ave.-Oxford St.), Boston
617-426-8320
(From a summer 2009 visit)