Wong Lee Bakery

I would give this a 3.5 and I am a repeat customer. They have the same owner as Good MongKok but sometimes the quality differs. I love going for their thousand egg porridge for breakfast, the rice breaks down perfectly and it smells wonderful! The fish porridge is a hit and miss sometimes. The extra large steamed chicken bun is a must.

the food was all cold when we ate it, and the noodles were uck. I would recommend going someplace else that costs a little more for decent food. we tried this place bc they accept credit cards ($ 10 minimum).

Fried taro were delish! The white sugar sponge cakes were not as good. I think they were old. The top layer tasted good but the bottom part was rough and didn’t have flavor. I’ve been eating the top layer lol. I think if they were newer/​more fresh they would have been just as good as the fried taro was.

The best egg tarts I think. Or at least one of the best in Chinatown. 1 $ each or 6 for 5 $. So flaky and the center is perfectly cooked– custardy and melt in your mouth texture. Their other dim sum items are great as well. I don’t know how, but they manage to produce all dim sum under the sun in this hole in the wall shop. They also have zong zi, which I haven’t yet tried. Some I have had:
(+) Egg tart
(+) Malaysian sponge cake（马拉糕)
(+) Pan fried Red bean mochi （糯米并）
(+) Man tou (wheat)
(+) Meat/​vegetable bun
There is a young lady at the cashier who is very nice, but best try to speak Cantonese with her!

Wong Lee Bakery is one of my favorite places in chinatown to get some Dim Sum to Go! this is a take out place only, but they do have one small round table with just enough room for two people to stand and eat something quick, but no inside seating.
They have a nice selection, I like the Egg Custard Tarts, you get Six for $ 5, the best bargain in chinatown, other places like Golden Gate bakery raised the price to $ 1.66 each for an Egg tart [Dan Tat] the prices here are much more reasonable in my opinion and the quality is just as good.
The sticky rice wrapped in bamboo leaves with pork, peanuts, sausage, etc, is excellent, they always have a lot of them ready and freshly made as usual.
I really like the pork & shrimp wrapped inside a fried wonton wrapper, they’re pretty tasty, also the fried taro balls, and the buns.
I always make sure to stop by and get some Dim sum to go when Im in chinatown.
Iced Coffee or Tapioca Pearl tea is only .99 and goes well with the food to wash it down, only problem is no inside seating, so not the place to go with your family unless you plan to take it somewhere else to eat later.

Decided to come here because golden gate bakery was closed and j really wanted egg tarts!
Egg tarts were $ 1 each. Very soft and very flaky which I loved but they weren’t the best egg tarts I’ve had. This place is very small. Parking can be really tricky because China town is a tourist spot. So good luck with parking!
Wished I tried some of their dim sum stuff): maybe next time!

Yummy dim sum get in my tummy!
They have freshly made dim sum and baked bread goodies! I love their chicken buns here! They have English menu on the wall! You can also point at the stuff you want since it is a clear, see through display of the variety.
$ 10 cc minimum charge. Ideally, you would order the food and grab it to go. No sitting down here.

Came here on a whim since Delicious Dim Sum was closed. This was the next closest one and I was in a rush so I assumed it would be pretty good as there was a line. I got the har gow, shrimp & chive dumpling, and a sesame ball with red bean paste. Sad to say, they were your average dim sum. Nothing special from other places and I definitely had better. Maybe some of their other items are better? I might pop in to try their rice rolls and the sweet items near the register.

I was really craving some dim sum so I decided to stop in here for a quick little appetizer. Went with the pork/​shrimp dumplings, awesome prices. 3 dumplings for only $ 1.90. They were a bit soggy, but the meat inside was pretty good and piping hot. I would rate it 3.5 stars as it was quite tasty and I would happily go back there again, however it was not anything out of this world.

My favorite place to get rice rolls! Shrimp & beef rice rolls are $ 1.90 each and green onion with dried shrimp is $ 1.70 each. The rice rolls are huge and i get full from just one. This place definitely has the best rice rolls in town. I always come here to grsb lunch or breakfast whenever i visit my grandparents.
The other dimsums such as typical ha gow and sui mai were average. They are good but i had better.
Oh yea, they serve milk tea with tapioca for only 99 cents! Way cheaper and tastes way better than Quickly’s or other boba shops. I usually never order drinks at to-​go dimsum places but this place is exceptional!
No seating in here so you have to order it to-​go. The ladies working there aren’t exactly friendly but it’s probably because they are always so busy. Lines can sometiems be long but service is fast.
My grandma said this place is owned by the same owner asgood Mong Kok. If you want to avoid the lines, just come here since it’s techincally the same place =)

Perhaps it’s no worse than the bakeries around Chinatown, but I found the buns and tarts bland and not particularly authentic.
Couldn’t finish any of them.

Let me start of my saying this place is pack where the line is all the way outside the door. Why? Because their bakery and dim sum is delicious! And did I mention the price is ridiculous insane for their size and quality of food? I got the bbq pork bun for my hubby, the combination banh bao for my daughter, and she LOVED it, very flavorful and the bun is on point my friend! I, myself got the taro sesame balls dessert! It’s really good! Only problem was I should’ve boughten more, but will definitely be coming back for some Wong lee bakery next time we are back in Chinatown :) Thanks guys!

I don’t see these dim sum fast food style places in LA. When I walked in, everything looked delicious. My taste buds were craving for these hot, delicious smelling chinese dim sum and comfort food. Everything was cheap so I decided to go to town and ordered chow fun (no meat unfortunately), shrimp and chive pan fried dumplings, lo bak go, and deep fried dumplings.
The shrimp and chive dumplings were fantastic. Absolute winner.
Everything else, not even close. Lo Bak Go was too thick, deep fried dumplings had been sitting out, and the chow fun was bland. Worst part, ALL of this stuff was lukewarm, if that. The shrimp and chive dumplings were lukewarm as well but it kept its flavor.
I ordered my food to go and went to Portsmouth Square Plaza to eat. About a 5 minute walk with covered food. It should not have cooled off THAT quickly.
One star for the price (amazing price), one star for the fantastic shrimp and chive dumpling. I’ve heard this place is better for the bakery but I wasn’t feeling any sort of bao this day. Maybe next time as my GF’s family really enjoyed the bao, but I couldn’t recommend this place for anything else aside from those shrimp and chive dumplings.

I was pretty disappointed in this place. When I came in, there was one customer being helped by an attendant and another attendant standing nearby. The 2^nd attendant immediately asked for my order. I ordered a honey dew milk tea, har gow, chicken bao and custard.
The attendants spoke English but kinda ignored me at the same time so I don’t know how helpful their English speaking skills was. For example, when I ordered the milk tea, I asked if they could add tapioca pearl and then repeated myself while she was making it. I couldn’t see what she was doing since her back was turned to me but I ended up with a drink without tapioca pearls. I didn’t even bother mentioning this since the line behind me was long by the time I got my order so I just paid for it as is.
Prices were similar to the other bakeries in the area ($ 1.90 for 3 har gow and $ 1.60 for 1 bao. I can’t remember what the other prices were) so no complaints there. But what I WAS disappointed by was the food. The har gow had too much dough (especially where the dough was pinched together) and was stale, tough and dry. The dryness of the dough bothered me so much that I tried putting the har gow on soup to soften it up. I can’t tell you how disappointing it was that I couldn’t enjoy it straight like I normally would. The custard tart was just average while the chicken bao had too much mushroom in it.
Although it’s not a horrible joint, with so many other places nearby serving much better food at similar prices (such as Good Mong Kok or Delicious Dim Sum), I couldn’t fathom coming to this place again.

$ 2.80 for a big jok! It’s not watery either! I always get the fish fillet or 1000 year old egg with pork jok!
$ 2.10 for three siu mais! Yummy!
They have delicious Mexico and baked bbq pork buns too!
They have one cocktail type of table for those who wanna eat in.

There were a couple people in line in front of me but it took forever because they ordered some type of fancy milk tea and there was only one person navigating behind the counter. Despite my annoyance, it gave me time to peer into the glass cases, but I already knew what I wanted: an egg tart. 90 cents later I was consuming layers of crust (which prompted this whole conversation about how things taste way better with butter instead of shortening), and shiny glazed custard that had a good texture but needed to be injected with some pizzazz. The whole thing was relatively greasy and flavorless. It wasn’t the worse I had, but I do know of some bakeries that do it WAY better a block or two away. Can’t imagine their dim sum is going to make it long, but their milk tea business might.

Mantow (Man-​tow) was a staple in my childhood and it’s been YEARS since I’ve had one so when we went to Chinatown, I told my mom… I really, really, really want some mantow.
We walked around a bit buying some veggies and chicken before we walked passed this place. Apparently my mom was looking for a specific bakery and I guess Wong Lee is where that bakery used to be? I don’t know. Confusing stuff. I mean, pretty much any bakery in Chinatown sells mantow right? That’s what I believe anyway.
Walking in, there’s no mantow in their display case and my hopes and dreams are crushed. UNTIL. My dad asked one of the workers if they had any and the lady said yes and we held our breath as she held up a square looking white bread. SUCCESS. That’s what I want!
We ended up getting 4 and I cannot remember the price at all because as soon as my dad handed me the bread, I just… I couldn’t think anymore.
Service was okay. Chinese ladies seem to have this inability to act friendly to people in Chinatown, but all good. They helped me get my mantow so yay.
I started eating one in the car and let me just say… eh. Not as good as I remember. Or maybe it was just this bakery? Rest assured, I will go back to Chinatown one of these days and go to another bakery for mantow.
Oh, they also have bbq pork buns and egg tarts and a bunch of other goodies you can check out if you ever come here. I heard they also so fresh rice rolls if you ever want any.
Overall, service was average. My mantow was also average. The shop was clean, though. And they sell milk tea for cheap which makes me question it, but also makes me want to try… mm.

Walked by this place just as I finished eating dim sum across the street, and wow all the bright yellow egg tarts drew me in!
The place is really small, with no seats, so it’s clearly a to-​go place. I tried to order a cold tea drink, and it took them quite a while to make (5 min?), which I guess means they are more of a dim sum place than a drink place.
In terms of the food, it is actually pretty nice. All the food is fresh, and hot (they actually have more dim sum in the back behind the cash register, inside a steam can). The egg tarts look and taste great!
Will definitely go back again.

I don’t walk the streets of Chinatown as often as I used to so thank goodness for the reviews from two long-​time Unilocal friends who alerted me about Wong Lee. In the past couple of months I’ve made a few visits each time trying different things, and although there are specific items I would not order again I must admit that I’ve actually liked the majority of the things I’ve tried.
Lolia S mentioned in her review that the former tenant Yong Kee was very well known for their chicken buns. I certainly agree with that remembering as a youth growing up in the area that it was one of the main places my parents would go to buy delicious chicken buns.
The Chicken Combination Buns at Wong Lee are much different than what I’m used to however. I tried these on my first visit. Inside the fluffy steamed bun were familiar components such as the half hard boiled egg, the Chinese sausage and the Shiitake mushrooms, but the chicken was all chopped up and blended with chopped cabbage in a mix heavily seasoned by dark soy sauce and MSG. Not having a knife with me I kind of ripped into this one (
). These were definitely not as good as the ones I remembered from the previous tenant.
What I really liked on that first visit was the Shui Mai (
). Wong Lee offers up three different versions. Because I speak a different dialect in Chinese there may have been something of a lost in translation type of thing going on but I loved the ones which I was served. There was the occasional piece of pure pork fat in one but the mix of pork to crunchy shrimp meat was about 48 – 48 with the remainder of the mixture made up of chopped Shiitake mushrooms.
The Fried Shrimp Balls (
) were very good too. These are best eaten hot or warm at the very least. The outside is made up of what I believe to be deep fried wonton skins. The mixture on the inside is predominantly shrimp that has been ground up and pounded into a firm ball. These were slightly on the salty side and there was a slight MSG kick, but I would order these again.
The Pot Stickers (
) are pretty standard with a similar pork and cabbage filling that many dim sum places use. I enjoyed these eaten warm.
The Shrimp Dumplings (or Har Gow) (
) are okay. I like the ones at Delicious Dim Sum up the block more. The skins here are slightly thinner, but there is less shrimp in the filling and the corn starch wasn’t mixed very well on the batch I had so I actually could detect the starch.
On my two most recent visits I’ve opted for sweet stuff instead of savory.
The mochi pastries are delicious and not greasy like many places. I tried both the Red Bean Mochi and the Custard Mochi (
), and while I enjoyed both, I liked the custard one a little more.
The fried Sesame Balls (
) are nice and chewy with a fair amout of red bean paste inside. I enjoyed these too, but then again I love most sesame balls.
I picked up some Cocktail Buns to share with friends on a recent weekend hike. I thought these were pretty standard, but my friends from Germany and the UK loved them probably because they had never had them before. Then again, we ate those with champagne, but I’ll save those details for another review.
I’ll be back to Wong Lee to try more stuff soon.

Had no idea what this place was called since the name was in Chinese characters. There was a line and people seemed really excited, so I joined in. Their baked goods were huge, fresh and golden, so I couldn’t resist a BBQ pork bun. I normally don’t buy those, but I’m glad I did. The bread was fluffy, sweet, and really good. The filling was plentiful and on the sweet side. Good barbecue pork filling.
They had a section of fried dim sum items too –fried shrimp paste in wonton skin, fried shrimp balls wrapped in noodles, fried pork wontons, egg rolls and fried shrimp toast. Tried the shrimp ball wrapped in flat noodles, and it was nice and crunchy and warm. Lots of filling and seasoned well. Seemed really fresh and of good quality.
Ordered 3 har gow for $ 1.80. The filling had 3 shrimp and ginger bits and also tasted great. The shrimp were crunchy and seemed fresh. The wrapper was too thick, but it had a great chew and elasticity. Best to-​go har gow I’ve ever had.
They also brought out a huge steamer tray of these bun-​size steamed yellow balls. I had to try one since I’d never seen them before. They were sticky rice balls mixed with Chinese sausage, dried shrimp, & scallions wrapped in a giant wonton wrapper. It’s basically the sticky rice inside the lotus leaf but sub wonton for lotus leaf. Warm, sticky, flavorful and so good. I’m glad I hunted for the location on Unilocal and someone translated the name here for me. Now I have a new to-​go dim sum spot to hit on my next visit.