04/05/2026
📌 Ann Arbor, MI
🍩 Inside a converted laundromat on Packard Street is some of the best German-style baked goods in all of Washtenaw County.
The recipes at DJ's Bakery trace back to the hundred-year-old Dexter Bakery, which Kim and Saing Yam took over after moving to Michigan in 1993. Saing had learned to make donuts at a shop in San Diego after the family fled Cambodia during the war in 1979. In Michigan, he added traditional German recipes to his repertoire and never looked back.
The couple went on to open bakeries in both Pinckney and Chelsea before landing on Ann Arbor's southeast side. Gutting the old laundromat took a full year (they'd planned on three or four months), but the result is a warm, bright little neighborhood spot that regulars hit multiple times a week.
The donuts here are enormous. The cinnamon rolls are even bigger. But it's the range that surprises people: soft pretzels, stuffed croissants, kolache cookies, brownies, eclairs, and Vietnamese iced coffee sitting right alongside classic glazed and chocolate frosted.
The bakery's name comes from the Yams' two sons, Dennis and Jason, who help run the place and may take it over someday.
If you're in the Packard and Platt area and haven't stopped in yet, you're overdue.
➡️ DJ's Bakery
📍 3031 Packard St, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
