This Wichita bakery will close later this month: Owners want to focus on their family
Tam Ho and Peter Ong opened their Vietnamese bakery in the summer of 2021, and Wichita was enchanted by its delicate and detailed French-inspired cream puffs, fruit tarts, egg tarts and macarons.
But soon, Mi No Bakery at 2528 S Oliver, will be closing its doors. The owners, parents to a 7-year-old son, say they’ll likely remain open only through the end of the month: They want to step back and focus on their family.
“It’s one of the hardest decisions of our lives,” Ong said.
Ho moved from her native Saigon to Wichita when she married Ong, who’d immigrated to the United States when he was a child. She was a stay-at-home mom for a while but then started a business out of her home that offered cakes and the types of French-influenced pastries popular with that the younger generation in Vietnam.
The business quickly outgrew the couple’s home, so they opened a shop in a former insurance office at Oliver and Pawnee.
Most of the regulars of the shop — which also sells egg rolls, banh mi sandwiches, breakfast items and tea and coffee drinks— already know the closing is coming, and they’re disappointed, Ong said. But the couple hasn’t ruled out reopening in the future.
Those who want to make a final visit this month will find the bakery open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.
This story was originally published April 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM.
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