Hong Kong Bakery

ok, so what if it’s not the best shit you’ve ever had?
this place is like the dollar store. you walk in and everything is priced for ME. finally a place i can get a bite in the city!
egg tarts for 0.80, pineapple buns and pork buns and hot dog buns for 0.90, a whole whopping bag of 6 cupcakes for 1.60, how can you go wrong?! if something tastes awful you literally just lost nearly nothing. but i promise you it won’t taste awful. it’ll taste like a solid ⁸⁄₁₀.
4 for quality, 5 for good service and decent prices in this godforsaken city.

Got a box of bread from my friend so i have nothing to write about the looking or service of the place.
I tried all of them in a picture and the muffin and the one with ham and cheese was good!
On the other hand, i wasn’t able to finish other than those two.

Hong Kong bakery is cheaper than the bakery down the street. most baked items under $ 1. (.80-.95 cents).
eats:
melon cake:
–tasted very good but not much filling
–beef curry
–chicken
crumbs:
–no msg tasted
–crumbly texture, fresh ingredients inside.
–fresh tasting.
–not sure how it compares to chinatown, but it’s ok for the mission.

My go to birthday cake place. Their cakes are much lighter than traditional b-​day cakes. They use a whipped cream based frosting that isn’t overly sweet, and a fresh fruit garnish. The cakes look nice, cost less than Safeway, and taste MUCH better.
The staff is friendly and accommodating. This place is a great resource.

There was nothing here to order. Why are people giving it a good review? I ordered the custard and it sucked. What a waste of time.

I love the flaky chicken pie. It’s tastes like a hand held chicken potpie. I love almost every treat they have. Especially the mocha roll and the ham & cheese bun. The owners are super sweet. The coffee is fresh and the food is baked in the kitchen on site. Stop by and get your favorite Asian delight. This is a cash only location.

This is a pretty cozy neighborhood spot, and they offer a good variety of cheap baked treats and pastries.
The Egg Tart (Dan Tat) had a decently flaky crust. The egg custard in the center was gelatinous and jiggly with a slightly eggy and sweet flavor. I thought it could be more eggy and sweet, but it wasn’t bad. I liked that they heated it back up for us since the tarts were sitting in the glass counter. Golden Gate Bakery is still the king of fresh egg tarts.
I thought the Portuguese Tart (Po Tat) wasn’t as good. The crust was similar, but the custard in the center didn’t have that distinctive eggy flavor. Although the custard had a creamier texture, it didn’t taste very rich, buttery, or sweet. I found it to be kind of bland. If you want really good ones, try them at Koi Palace.
The milk tea here was ok. They use the traditional tall steeping kettles, and it looked like they made it fresh. I think they could’ve steeped the tea longer though. The milk tea wasn’t too sweet and had the right amount of evaporated milk to make it rich and full-​bodied, but the tea flavor wasn’t strong enough. The underlying tea flavor did have the right earthy aroma and flavor, but it just needed to be bolder.
Overall, this isn’t a bad place to visit if you live close by, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to come here. I do have to say that I really liked the people who work here. The lady at the counter was so nice and friendly. That’s pretty rare for Chinese style service.

I’m done with this place. When I first moved to San Francisco, I loved them. I didn’t have Asian bakeries available to me in San Antonio and was just thrilled that there was one so close to my house. Although I knew they were not as good as Chinatown bakeries, I felt they were decent for the area (not too many Asian bakeries within walking distance) and also loved their later-​than-​most bakeries hours that ensures that they are open whenever I feel the need to sin.
But I didn’t like the way they mix old baked goods with new baked goods, forcing me to play Russian Roulette with my freshness expectations. And as I got acquainted with San Francisco more, I learned just how many conveniently located Asian bakeries there are and how much this one paled in comparison.
But what finally got me to give up on this place was my last experience. I was ordering custard tarts. There was 5 left but one had fruit flies on it and I told the rep that I would buy all except that one and she grumbled something about people like me always wanting too much and how it didn’t make sense that I would leave one behind. So now I’m leaving this place behind.

Another local favorite.
Yes it is a dive but a great bakery to get fresh chinese baked goods from savory to sweet breads and great fresh milk tea. I come here 3x a week to get an afterschool snack for the kids. I make sure I specifically ask what was made and when and pick and choose from there, they are honest about when it came out of the oven. Very nice couple who owns it.

This place is bomb! We ordered cake and the dude made it fresh for us. When we had it, OMG it was so super moist, fluffy and oh so scrum-​deliumptious!!! I grabbed a few things to go on our way home and ate it for our 9 hour drive home and TOTALLY REGRET not getting more!!! Waaahhhh!!! Everything we had was so gooa, awesome & wonderful!!! I would so go back here when I get the chance to go back up to the bay area.

Fantasticly strong HK milk tea (not to be confused with the light, milky milk teas found at boba spots like Quickly et al) and at a great price. Baked pastries are pretty good too.

Came here to pick up 2 birthday cakes last minute and I’m pretty impressed :) I was running around all morning looking for decent cakes in the neighborhood and was having no luck. I told the owner I wanted the Mocha cake & Fruit cake and he said «no problem! come back in 20 minutes»
At first I was skeptical because the place wasn’t exactly the best looking but he went straight to work and made both cakes for me immediately. I only paid about $ 43 for both cakes and he even gave me a free candle. Pretty good price for the size of the cakes. When my family ate the cakes, they were so happy! The cake was moist and the cream was not too sweet. Perfect :)
Will probably come back here to get more cakes for the next occasion.

Some friends and I were in the mood for some snacks after a service project so after some searching, we decided to give this bakery a shot.
The bakery is a very typical Chinese bakery in the city. Not there to impress anybody, but there to provide cheap, good, baked treats and whatnot. I got a little excited and bought more than a few things: egg custard tart, melon cookie, beef curry pie, and a sesame seed ball. Everything came out to be a little over $ 3! So stoked.
The egg custard tart was yummy. I wish I had eaten it warm. There’s an oven by the counter where you’re allowed to warm up your treats but I found that out too late. I tried my friend’s Portuguese tart (why is it called that?) and I found that I liked it better because it was creamier and sweeter compared to the more eggy taste that egg tarts generally have. Same price!
The beef curry pie was okay. Standard taste, but it filled me up a little.
Sesame seed ball disappointed me because it had very little filling and it was quite greasy.
Melon cookie was good. Not quite what I was expecting. It’s basically melon flavored rice cake covered in pastry and shaped like a thick cookie. It tasted pretty good, but would be best if heated.
I also tasted a friend’s bacon bread with shredded pork (something like that), another friend’s little sponge cakes, and another friend’s coconut bread. The bacon bread was good but made me feel fat after a few bites (I think it’s the mayonnaise), the sponge cakes were adorable and really addicting to eat, and the coconut bread did not taste like coconut.
Good neighborhood bakery. Though some things were hit and miss for me, I appreciate this place because the treats are really cheap.

Mmm, warm buns. Warm pork-​filled buns. Cheap prices. Fast service.

The daan tat (custard pies) and the fruit filled cakes are amazing and super cheap. The staff is really friendly, even if you’re not Chinese which is rare at most Chinese bakeries, and they take special orders, even at the last minute. This is my go to place for office birthdays and special occasions at work. I love my Excelsior bakeries!

All i want to write about is their awesome Wife biscuits/​cookie/​cake or sweetheart cookie or luo po beng or whatever you want to call it. I’ve loved these things since i was a kid, they were so insanely sweet. But as i’ve o gotten older, i couldn’t take that sugary taste so easily anymore. My god here is the answer, their wife cakes are so perfect, sweet but not too much, just the right amount for a more sophisticated palette *heart*

Pretty good pastries here. I stopped by for the first time after driving past it for 5 years. Everything was pretty good. Well, except the churros. Why bother? Haha. Great place and very cheap stuff. Very friendly people as well. Definitely going back when I get the urge for some delicious pastries.

Bread: Thumbs up! Excellent
They have the buy 2 get 1 free for breads after 5 p.m. and the quality of bread is excellent. Their bread is comparable to Sheng Kee.
Cakes and pastries: Thumbs down! Horrible!
One time I order a strawberry cake for my son’s birthday and it was horrible. The strawberry moose was already melting when I picked it up and it just would not stay even after I put the cake in the freezer. I was very upset when the owner told me he knew he made a mistake by making the moose WAY too soft. So my question is this. Why did he sell me the damn cake if he knew he screwed up on it?
Here is an update about this place. The owner has not been nice lately and he removed the custard tarts from the buy 2 get 1 free deal. I just don’t feel like buying from them anymore after that.

Haven’t been there for awhile, I missed their pastries and milk tea. Besides my usual favorite onion pork sung bread, I have a new favorite – egg custard. OMG the crust was warm and crispy, and the egg center was melt-​in-​your-​mouth creamy. Gotta Unilocal about their milk tea again, it’s perfection now. It’s now one of my favorite breakfast station =)

I saw this new bakery from Martha’s across the street and decided to give it a try.
I like using egg tarts to rate how good a Chinese bakery is.
Here they have two kinds. I tried the Portuguese version.
It’s my new favorite treat. It’s a very much richer and thicker than the other more common version. The crust is very flaky too.
The egg tart is on par with Golden Gate Bakery’s version.
I’m glad they opened up shop in the neighborhood.
Open from 6:00 am to 7:00 pm everyday.