Sheng Kee Bakery

The fresh made pastries are tasty. However, the packaged ones can be stale. I bought the green tea cake roll slice, it came in a package and tasted really stale. The pineapple custard bread, on the contrary, tastes amazing. Vegetarians, watch out for the HK style Pineapple bun, it took me a while to realize the standard recipe includes lard. It’s labeled in this store, but not necessarily in other Chinese bakeries.

I like their cakes. No buttery icing it’s Mousse instead. The cake is spongy some might say dry but I love it. Not overly sweet. The fruit based ones are my favorite — reminds me of cake in India. Their chicken pies would be better with some spice. I am not a fan of their custard tart.
Go before 3 pm or call in if you want a message on your cake!

If I were to rate based on the baked goods alone, I will give a 4. They have many selections to choose from, and they’re quite yummy.
The reason why I give it a 2 is mostly due to service.
1. Most of the attendants do not know English, and the ones that do are rude.
2. Unfortunately for me, they make a cake that is reminiscent of my grandmother’s. So I come here often after work. Not only are their selections limited during this time, but one of the staff is very insistent in you buying more.
3. One time we found a custard leaking out to all the other custards on the tray. I tried to inform the cashier. He didn’t understand me for a good 5 minutes. He called a person from the back. Instead of acknowledging that the custards that they have put out on display is oozing all over, the man gave me a disgruntled face angry before I even explain the whole situation. He even asked if I squeezed the custard out of the bun. I told him I just saw it. He eventually understood but gave an off-​putting yah. For the next few minutes while customers are going in and out of the shop, they did not fix the problem.
4. I bought two roll cakes based on their suggestion. I mistook what they heard hearing «cream cheese» instead of «green tea.» I told them I wanted the cream cheese one. They did not verify with me that maybe I wanted the «green tea» one. When I went out of the store, I found out that they gave me a «green tea» one, and I am not too particular keen of red bean filling which the green tea one has. I asked for a replacement and told them that I will be willing to pay extra for the trade if the other rolls are a little bit more pricey. Instead they gave me a lecture on how they do not accept returns in general, and they will just make an exception this time around. And then they gave me more lecture on how we have to void your credit card and charge it again, and if you don’t get your refund back by next week, come and we will refund you somehow. What kind of customer service is this to treat your customer like some sort of criminal? This is the second time I have been treated as a criminal for being their customer.
I have been to this bakery at least twenty times in the last three months. Each time I bought a minimum of $ 15-​$ 20 worth of baked goods. The service they have provided from the beginning till now is still rude. After the last incident, I will stop coming here.
If you still decided to come here after reading this review, then do not come when they are about to close. Go when they just open. Not only is the food more fresh, but they have more variety in the morning than in the evening. Also, make sure you bring cash if you are only planning to buy one or two baked goods because they have a $ 10 minimum to use credit card.

Extremely disappointed!!! I went there at 7:50pm, which the sign says closed at 8pm. All I need is buy a birthday cake for elderly birthday. The door is locked and that guy told me to come again tomorrow. He told me once register is closed he can not do anything. Zero humanity, business sucks!!! Especially it is not closing time!!! They should change their signs to close at 7:45! PLEASE!

I bought 7 – 8 pieces of buns from this place today and ended up throwing away almost all of them.
Nothing tastes good, just one was okay and the rest were eiwwww.
For example, the garlic bread was so hard to chew, the bbq pork bun was full of fat stuffing, the shredded pork bun was terribly sweet and I can tell the meyo in the bun was the low quality kind.
I give the review for either the best or the worst. Definitely not come back here again.

This place is walkable from my apartment, so it’s nice to pop in and pick up some pastries. I usually switch up what I order, but I’ve liked most of what I’ve ordered.

I love there bread and pastry there good price and love the taste soft bread and freshly made yummm

I come 4 times a week because it so freaking yummu and fresh. Might have to wait in line to cash out but I think it’s am Asian thing at market time especially breakfast. Baked good at hot. I love the red bean bun.

evening desert pick-up…2 slices of cake $ 4.50…green tea $ 2.50 and black forest chocolate $ 2.50…green tea cake hardly had any green tea flavor… chewy spongy flavorless cake… black forest tasted nearly identical, but had a hint of chocolate taste… same chewy spongy and flavorless… bit puzzled by how bad it was… usually sheng kee chains are decent… off day?

I come here every week to buy breads for breakfast. The breads are fresh, there’s a good selection and most are reasonably priced at around $ 1.25 to $ 1.85 each. My favorites are the red bean bun, pineapple bun and custard bun. They used to have all the breads individually pre-​packaged but now they put the breads in clear plastic display cases and you use a tong to place items on your tray. I preferred the breads pre-​packaged as I don’t know if others have accidentally touched the breads in the case. I will still continue to come here because it is one of the only Asian bakeries in the San Mateo area.

They have a handful of new items. Really… this is pretty exciting after years of having the same old buns and pastries. They also remodeled the place so that the items are covered rather than out in the open on trays. Again… it’s really exciting haha. Guess I’ll be hitting this place up all week…

The baked goods here are good enough and freshly baked every morning. The pineapple buns and different loafs of flavored bread are nice, my fave being the custard with shredded coconut. I love the soft buttery Taiwanese toast. BUT the service is pretty bad. The boss lady is so mean to her workers. She yells or scolds at them constantly which makes you feel so bad at the cash register. She is also mean to customers. I asked her for a straw for my milk tea and she replied «I don’t give out straws for milk tea!» C’mon, it’s just a straw! Their birthday cakes are also so-​so, not very flavorful.

Decent baked goods but absent it being a phenomenal bakery, I really don’t want to spend time at an establishment where the manager is both rude to customers and down right belligerent to employees and dresses down employees in front of customers.

Nice surprise to find this bakery in the strip mall. I tried their char siu boa and egg custard tart. The tart was perfect, nice smooth texture, flaky crust, and lightly sweetened.
The char siu boa was a bit too salty. The bun itself was good, with a nice chewy texture, and the meat filling wasn’t filler stuff. I’d probably pass on the bao in the future.

I love cake (my fave dessert) and I love how Asians make their cake — super light and fluffy and they use whip cream instead of heavy frosting. I got a «fruit basket» cake for my mom’s birthday and the 8″ or 9″ round one is the perfect size to get for a family (with leftovers!). I was also glad that the fruit was pretty fresh and wasn’t frozen (even though it might previously have been frozen).
I’ve tried a couple of their other bakery items as well and they’re pretty good. Kind of on the pricey side, but maybe it’s because they use to be so much cheaper or at least you can find them cheaper at Chinatown.
Overall though, it’s my go to place to get cakes!

I’ve been here a few times to pick up hot dog buns for my husband. The red bean buns are good and the egg custard tart is decent. All their pastries and buns were under $ 2/​each when I went.
Everything was A-​OK. They don’t really serve anything I’ll crave enough to plan a trip there, but I would probably pop inside if I was walking by.

Located in the Marina Grocery shopping center is where you will find this piece of sweet heaven!
The smell alone as soon as you walk in will leave you wanting and wanting more.
How it works? You grab a red tray walk along the wall of little bags pastries, pay and there you go. Boom.
Each of the pastries are bagged in little clear baggies. Priced anywhere from $ 0.90-$ 2.00 per piece.
Cheese pastry: delicious! Sweet cream cheese just melts in your mouth with the perfect amount of flake.
Milk Bread: wow! Cooked to perfection with just the perfect amount of fluff.
I wish I lived near this bakery, I would be here everyday.

Nice bakery in the Marina mall
Man, this place is a hidden gem! Seems like they serve a wide range of cake, buns, and other bakery products. The egg tarts keeps selling out – when I got there they were in the process of selling the last ones, and it was only in the afternoon! The place is small, but always seems to be crowded with customers – some were even placing larger orders of birthday cakes etc.
Unfortunately, the iced milk tea they offer is pretty bad – definitely not worth getting it. It tasted like they just mixed tea with milk, with no syrup – the whole thing tasted really bland – I could have made a better milk at home myself! They do offer free wifi though, which is nice, so it’s a good place to grab some egg custard and chill out for a while.
Definitely recommend stopping by to get your buns and cakes! The tarts seemed popular amongst customers.

I needed to find a bakery that was open on a Sunday evening, pronto!
I used Unilocal and it led me to this bakery, which was the only one open around these parts.
I got some sort of cake that they had on display, I didn’t particularly care for it. I did however, like the rest of their pastries, especially the ones with the custard in the middle.
The workers here were very friendly. Parking can be tough.

Sheng Kee offers a decent selection of baked goods. In general, things range from mediocre to pretty good. Here are some highlights:
— Baked BBQ Pork Bun — In my humble opinion, the true test of a Chinese bakery. The ones at Sheng Kee are good: soft bread, lots of juicy meat, and large. I ate three in one day and that made my day pretty awesome.
— Portuguese Custard Tart — I grew up eating the best Portuguese Custard Cups in the world at Teixeira’s Bakery in Newark, NJ. The ones at Sheng Kee are good, but I wouldn’t cry tears of joy at the sight of them. Yes, I’m a snob. Yes, I’m Portuguese. So take my word for it.
— Cream Cheese Toast — I love cream cheese, so I bought some sliced cream cheese toast bread. The cream cheese isn’t evenly spread throughout the entire loaf, so some bites are awesome, but most are just average.
— Blueberry Cream Cheese Pastry — Awesome! Soft, flaky crust filled with a good amount of blueberry jam and cream cheese.