QQ is fairly popular among Fujianese people for wedding banquet gift cards. With the 3 times I've been here. The waitresses seems to have an attitude problem. Each time was a different girl waiting on me and they all have this "screw you and your cake" attitude (literally). They must all hate working there.
I only went there because of the free gift card I got, if not I wouldn't because these workers are scary!
As with most places in Chinatown, you don't come here for philosophical discussions with the staff. As long as they don't openly spit in my face, I try to assess these places by the quality of the food and how they care for the food/sanitation.
QQ Bakery has consistently, without fail continued to be mediocre. Average cleanliness by Chinatown's standards. Their baked goods are not bad but don't stand out. During the summer, I come here for the watermelon bubble tea. I made the mistake of ordering it off season once and was slapped in the face by an artificially powdered drink that made me question every bubble tea I order from then on.
I'm really surprised at the bad reviews on here because my family & I have been coming for years and we receive really great service and we love getting our drinks here.
It's frequently crowded & noisy as heck (g'luck on finding a table, btw), but I always take my stuff to-go and haven't had a problem before. Their red bean ice drink is really good and I always get that when I stop by.
Fairly crowded on a Sunday, the bakery goods looked decent and there's also bubble tea, but none of it really had a strong appeal visually – there was nothing different about it from most of the other bakeries, but at least this was well-lit and had turnover from the sheer mass of people inside. Seems to be too few staff, too, to handle it all.
Got the taro bun and coconut bun. Bread was dry, filling was sort of bland and probably $0.30 more expensive than what you can get a few steps away. Meh. Nothing much else to say.
I've been to this chinese backery enough times to firmly say that it's unworthy of returning! i think most people went there cos they have a bakery gift certificates which they sale for $3-4 w worth of $6 of bake goods, excluding some drinks. my worse experience was when i tried to reserve for a strawberry birthday cake, and yes, this is pre-order, anyways, here's how the conversation went: Me: can i have reduced sugar and whipped cream on my cake? Staff: no, everything is premade Me: how about less whip cream? Staff: no! Me: can you ask the pastry chef to draw a little bike on the birthday cake Staff: no we don't do that Me: how about fresh fruits instead of can fruits? Staff: it's be chef's choice of fruits and decor
The price is abit pricier compared to other chinese bakeries in chinatown, and most buns are just okay, w light fillings if there's any. They also sell small selections baked cookies running from $6 -$8, in my opinion, i'll rather get a bag of pepperidge farms from deli. the dessert cakes sections looks pathetic! there's no order of lines, granted it's like that in most chinese bakeries. another thing it irks me is most of the bubble related drinks are made of powders! I wonder if the business will really survive without the gift certificates sales. I'll walk a few more blocks and head to Taipan instead!
If it's a Chinese bakery you're looking for, there are many better ones. In my opinion, quality here is just weak. The breads, the cakes…something simple like milk with tea was made ridiculously unbalanced and sweet.
I'd avoid this place unless you really want to taste what a bad bakery makes (as opposed to an average one).
QQ is fairly popular among Fujianese people for wedding banquet gift cards. With the 3 times I've been here. The waitresses seems to have an attitude problem. Each time was a different girl waiting on me and they all have this "screw you and your cake" attitude (literally). They must all hate working there.
I only went there because of the free gift card I got, if not I wouldn't because these workers are scary!
As with most places in Chinatown, you don't come here for philosophical discussions with the staff. As long as they don't openly spit in my face, I try to assess these places by the quality of the food and how they care for the food/sanitation.
QQ Bakery has consistently, without fail continued to be mediocre. Average cleanliness by Chinatown's standards. Their baked goods are not bad but don't stand out. During the summer, I come here for the watermelon bubble tea. I made the mistake of ordering it off season once and was slapped in the face by an artificially powdered drink that made me question every bubble tea I order from then on.
I'm really surprised at the bad reviews on here because my family & I have been coming for years and we receive really great service and we love getting our drinks here.
It's frequently crowded & noisy as heck (g'luck on finding a table, btw), but I always take my stuff to-go and haven't had a problem before. Their red bean ice drink is really good and I always get that when I stop by.
This place was sooooo… crowed I don't know y since the service sucks…
Fairly crowded on a Sunday, the bakery goods looked decent and there's also bubble tea, but none of it really had a strong appeal visually – there was nothing different about it from most of the other bakeries, but at least this was well-lit and had turnover from the sheer mass of people inside. Seems to be too few staff, too, to handle it all.
Got the taro bun and coconut bun. Bread was dry, filling was sort of bland and probably $0.30 more expensive than what you can get a few steps away. Meh. Nothing much else to say.
I've been to this chinese backery enough times to firmly say that it's unworthy of returning! i think most people went there cos they have a bakery gift certificates which they sale for $3-4 w worth of $6 of bake goods, excluding some drinks. my worse experience was when i tried to reserve for a strawberry birthday cake, and yes, this is pre-order, anyways, here's how the conversation went:
Me: can i have reduced sugar and whipped cream on my cake?
Staff: no, everything is premade
Me: how about less whip cream?
Staff: no!
Me: can you ask the pastry chef to draw a little bike on the birthday cake
Staff: no we don't do that
Me: how about fresh fruits instead of can fruits?
Staff: it's be chef's choice of fruits and decor
The price is abit pricier compared to other chinese bakeries in chinatown, and most buns are just okay, w light fillings if there's any. They also sell small selections baked cookies running from $6 -$8, in my opinion, i'll rather get a bag of pepperidge farms from deli. the dessert cakes sections looks pathetic! there's no order of lines, granted it's like that in most chinese bakeries. another thing it irks me is most of the bubble related drinks are made of powders! I wonder if the business will really survive without the gift certificates sales. I'll walk a few more blocks and head to Taipan instead!
If it's a Chinese bakery you're looking for, there are many better ones. In my opinion, quality here is just weak. The breads, the cakes…something simple like milk with tea was made ridiculously unbalanced and sweet.
I'd avoid this place unless you really want to taste what a bad bakery makes (as opposed to an average one).