Sheng Kee Bakery

#82 I was craving a pineapple bun while I was in the area but they didn’t have any plain ones left. The lady working was nice enough to check in the back if they had any leftover. I spotted some brioche that looked EXACTLY like the brioche at 85° Bakery, but it tasted kinda different. Like less sweet. Or maybe I’m just trippin. I also tried the thin almond cookies but they were way too crunchy. Meh, I’ll just stick with their fruit cakes.

They have a wide selection of baked goods and everything is baked fresh daily. I came here because I was looking for the Portuguese egg tarts and they had it! The staff is friendly and I love that they take credit card; alot of Chinese bakeries are cash only which can be inconvenient. They have multiple locations too which is great.

Been going here on and off for more than 10 years. The prices over the years has been going up, but then again look at the location of this place and the economy.
The buns have been good and consistent. The service has been quick and responsive. I have even tried there milk teas here. It’s just as good as the other million boba tea places on this street. However, not much in terms of tea flavors. Then a gain this place isn’t a tea place.

I appreciate the variety of buns and cakes they have but I feel like they’re getting to be overpriced. Sure, a bun that’s around $ 2-​ish is not pricey but it feels so when the flavor is meh and there’s other bakeries around the block which taste slightly better even if they don’t have a large selection. I’ve tried several of their cakes and didn’t like any.
A perk is that they do individually wrap each bun upon checkout.

Bought a selection of pastries:
BBQ pork– flaky crust, savory filling
Egg, Ham and cheese sandwich– sweet bread, has mayo, egg over cooked
Custard bun– soft, custard inside
Fried chicken patty sandwich– red sauce ketchup based, chicken was ok, bread was sweet
BBQ pork bun and custard bun was my favorites. I will be back for more.

The Fresh Strawberry cake is mind blowing. We’ve gotten two now and it’s amazing. The cream is light and fresh, the cake is moist. Yummy.

Great bakery on irving street!
Four stars because the service is sometimes a hit or miss. But for the most part, people are decently friendly. Maybe it’s my fault because I only speak English.
This bakery has amazing bread!
My favorites are the custard bun, red bean bun, and the green onion bun. YUM! I definitely want to try more, but my options are a little limiting because I don’t eat meat. Overall, delicious food!

Sheng Kee is a pretty foolproof bakery with fresh breads/​buns that are not overly sweet or oily. My favorites are the taro buns and pineapple red bean buns. The green onion buns can verge on overly oily and a little too creamy for my liking. I’m a huge fan of the beef curry horns (available near the register because they’re hot). I consider them an indulgence because their exterior is extremely buttery and flakey, with just the right amount of golden browning. The interior has slightly sweet curried beef, and overall the little horn is aromatic and delicious.
Note: $ 10 minimum for credit cards!

One of my favorite asian bakeries is Sheng Kee. This time, I went with my friends and we ordered some pastries. Usually the bakery is filled with people, but there wasn’t much people there at the time I went.
My friend got a flaky danish with green tea filling and a butter poundcake. However, when she dug into the danish pastry, there was very little green tea and it was located at the bottom of the pastry. It was disappointing to see how a wonderful looking pastry had little filling. We noted to not get this pastry next time.

This is where it started.
For me, the first and largest location in the City, strategically on Irving Street as budding Chinese businesses like San Tung and Wonderful Foods were the neighborhood draws. We know how the street evolved to be Clement Street South in the avenues.
Now, there are even more food and drink spots yet this staple still hustles and bustles unlike any other bakery in the area.
My recent trips are mostly for their tea eggs, 2 for $ 1.99, that sits in a warming pot by the register, mainly for a friend. This is only available at this location. In the past, my main buys were pineapple shortcakes or red bean buns. Well, since increased competition from that Taiwan coffee place in Newark and Cupertino, they really needed to step up their game. Hence, the three recent pastry purchases brought smiles to my face (pics below). One afternoon, being parched, I had their $ 1.99 mango green tea which hit the spot.
The new menu offerings also gave me an opportunity to see how this neighborhood changed and try Tpumps teas. Nice perks.

Place is decent but service is not good. All they care is making money and try to sell you stuff that’s a day old at regular price. Be careful when you get your change back. They tend to short change you. It’s not the first time it happen. That’s why I’m posting it this time.

Great place for quick grab n go Asian pastries and baked goods. It can be pretty busy at times here, and the usual crowd can lack manners. But the establishment is clean and efficiently run. They have a fair amount of tables inside, but it’s not really an environment conducive to studying or staying for very long.
As for the goods, well, they’re quite good! Prices per pastry range from $.99 to $ 2ish each. Everything seems fresh, and you can frequently see employees bringing out fresh batches to restock the shelves. Some of my favorites include the taro buns, pork sung buns, coconut buns… It’s hard to go wrong here! Actually, I usually stay away from the meat ones since they’re not kept heated, and thus bacteria can grow quickly.
Anyhow, Sheng Kee is quick, inexpensive, and has something for any carb lover!

This is a great Asian bakery staple in SF. Is everything in their store perfect? No. But most of the items you will find are pretty tasty and the variety of options never disappoints. They also have lots of good «specials» every once in a while. I only buy their fresh breads/​pastries though so I can’t speak on their cakes. It’s a great place to pass by and just pick up a snack or two… or three.
My personal faves are the taro breads that come in so many iterations. Their savory pork sung, red bean and chocolate varieties are great as well.
Solid place that I can always rely on to pick up asian bakery goods at or introduce people to if they’re new or visiting because it always has options and delivers well on taste most of the time.

Yummy & fairly standard Asian bakery. Good savory items, okay pricing. Gets busy weekend mornings w/​the older crowd, tables can sometimes be left messy :(
Good place to s too by for some carbs to munch on.

Sheng Kee Bakery has a wide selection of sweet and savory and plain breads and pastries in Asian and European styles. They also serve sandwiches, soups, and Peet’s Coffee.
Each time I have gone to Sheng Kee, the quality has been consistently good. Their BBQ pork buns are always solid, and especially delicious when they’re hot out of the oven. I like their sweet buns such as the taro bun and the yam bun. Their chocolate croissants and turnovers are also top notch.
The staff are always friendly and helpful. The prices are well marked and quite reasonable. While, for example, the pork buns here are $ 1.80 instead of more traditional dim sum bakeries which may sell for $ 0.75, the quality is more consistent.
The bakery does feel like a chain, which it is, but the quality makes it a good neighborhood staple.

This or the one on Irving and 9^th Ave are both awesome. Fresh pastries and bread. Love the whole wheat here.
The way to get to the that great bread taste is the same few bakeries in Damascus used to do it. They are so fluffy, delicate, and with an awesome light touch of sweetness.
I definitely miss this place.

It was an afternoon in San Francisco and my pops wanted some coffee. Lucky my cousin Steve, & his beautiful wife Priscilla know all the good spots for coffee and a little something, something.
Sheng Kee Bakery is where we ended up at… for my island peeps — what is «Sheng Kee Bakery?»
To put it simply… it’s like a St. Germain Bakery that we have here on the islands.
Apparently Sheng Kee Bakery is pretty big, with locations all over like — San Francisco, Berkeley, Cupertino, Richmond, Milpitas, Union City, Brisbane, San Mateo, & Daly City.
They serve the standard buns/​breads, and some Chinese treats that I like — (Custard Tart), as well as some fancy pansy cakes.
I originally was gonna eat a custard tart, but upon passing the cake display, my plans changed, as I decided on a Green Tea Mousse Cake.
Ummmmmm, Green Tea Mousse Cake… with a strong green tea powdered flavoring on top! Noms! To complement my afternoon treat, I had a cup of Peet’s Coffee too!
This place also sells tea’s, coffee, & that Milk ball tea thing-a-ma-jig…sorry, I don’t drink that stuff (maybe I’m missing out, who knows).
Anyways, a pretty cool bakery. The place was clean, service was fast, but unfortunately there is only metered street parking here.
A great place to stop by for a snack!

This location is significantly more spacious than the ones nearby (namely, the one on 9^th, the one at westlake, and the one at ranch 99) which sometimes means that it boasts some more «interesting» items.
Today, mom came and picked up a fruit cake, but while exploring, found an item called «cake sushi»…it comes as 4 slices of their sponge cake rolled in toasted coconut on the outside and layered with ham, pork sung, cucumbers, and mayo inside. I know, sounds kind of peculiar… but this sweet/​savory thing is something Sheng Kee actually does pretty well. I was pleasantly surprised by this cake sushi.
Sheng Kee likes to experiment. Sometimes it works: chocolate pineapple bun and milky brioche… and other times, it just doesn’t: green tea mochi bun. Irregardless of the hits and misses though, my family likes coming to this Sheng Kee because it’s a one stop shop on Irving (i.e. this one is near Sunset Super and Lam Hoa Thuan).

This location is okay, and I do like the Sheng Kee Bakery chain generally speaking as well as all of their products.
We had the SLC Mango, which was a slice for $ 3.39 and it was okay, not spectacular as most of their other deserts I’ve had here have been.
It’s similar to JJ Bakery, 85 Degrees, and those other Chinese /​Taiwanese bakeries in California (SF to LA) I’ve been to.
This location has seating inside to enjoy eating a snack too.
Parking is typical of the Sunset District and shopping area of Irving Street, a little bit of luck, a dash of good karma, and a lot of luck goes a long way.

I’m a big fan of their mocha rolls and their cakes! They always look so pretty in the display case, and you definitely won’t be disappointed. I’m a fan of the mocha roll especially because of how light and not overly sweet it is. As for the cakes, I really like their mango mousse and black forest cake. Yum! Whoever came up with designing the cakes, props to you.
They have a good variety of asian pastries here, from pineapple buns to taro buns and other fun little cute ones you probably never heard of. Their bread is always fresh; when you poke it, it’s always very soft! This location is smaller than the original further down Irving, but they offer the same stuff.
I guess the reason why I give three stars, no matter how much I love their pastries, is because of the milk tea. Sad to say, but when I got it (it was $ 2 with pearls which isn’t bad at all, however…) it was too sweet, and what was disappointing was that I found chunks of sugar at the bottom of my drink. It was like the kind of sugar used for coffee (sugar in the raw? something like that.) and bleh. it was gross. So yeah. don’t get it.