Mei Mei Bakery

Great location, right by the train station for your morning commute. Love their egg custard tarts and their coconut cream buns. Friendly, and nice staff always greeting me as soon as I come in. Oh and having a lotto machine is also a nice touch. Come in after 6pm for a BOGO deal on bread which is awesome!

Horrible service
Subpar food
Would not recommend to anyone. There was a Dunkin donuts right across but decided to give this place a try since I pass by after work everyday.

The coconut egg custard is really good. Great service, very welcoming and a great friendly atmosphere… I’ve been going to the bakery a few years back and the bakery has improved dramatically in regards to quality/​tastiness of their food, and customer service.

Quick, fast ready service, lady was very nice and served my pineapple custard bun fresh from the oven, each at ¢90, you can’t go wrong with buying a quick sweet, delightful treat on your day to work, school or pretty much anywhere. Activate your sweet tooth at this fine establishment at little cost!

I come here most of the time, this place has very friendly staffs, they help you right away when you need something. Also, when there’s a long line, you don’t have to wait that long because it’s only a 1 – 2 minute wait. There’s always a staff that would help you as soon as possible and they have great food. I love the milk tea especially, it’s not too sweet. If anything you can always ask for extra milk/​sugar.

Absolutely delicious food here. I come here for my daily breakfast prior to boarding the train, and for a late lunch after my trip home. In the mornings, it can be a little hectic (as all food serving establishments become during rush hour) but you’re in and out in minutes with the food you want. In the afternoon, service is similarly speedy and you get what you want, almost immediately. I have yet to find nearby establishments that provide such great food for their dirt cheap prices. I recommend you have a try as well.

Rating is for their rice rolls. This neighborhood Chinese bakery is everything you’d expect this sort of place to be: homely, worn, primarily takeout, and carrying the usual suspects, an assortment of savory and sweet buns, along with some hot items. They seem to bake and make most of their goods onsite. Service is to the point, but perhaps because its not very busy, certain staff always seem to be in training or unsure of what they’re doing.
In Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Mei Mei makes one of the best fresh rice rolls I’ve had, and along with their beef meatballs, account for the 4-​star rating. They make the rice rolls periodically throughout the day so depending on when you go, they may be out of them or freshly made ones just came out for sale. My fave is the dried shrimp rice rolls, which I’ve had multiple times and are consistently good. Their beef meatballs served with Worcestershire sauce are excellently made, very tender texture. Others are less reliable; beef rice roll was mediocre one time (bad rice rolls), and really good another. The rice rolls with spare ribs was terrible the one time I tried; spare ribs all fat and oily, the rice rolls hardened. Siu mai also mediocre. Their buns are ok but nothing special; feel the same about their drinks, hot or cold.
So in sum, come here for fresh rice rolls and beef meatballs. You’re on your own with everything else.

This was one of the first Chinese bakeries that opened in my neighborhood. I have been going here for a few years for pork buns. They were always good and priced right. In the last few months the quality of their pork buns have gone down. They do not taste as good and they a lot of bits of pork fat, really gross.

Great place for a cheap quick bite. However this is a popular hangout for Asian highschool kids who take up all the tables when only one person buys something out of a group of 15.

I’m giving it three stars because:
1. They have good mini pineapple buns. 3 for $ 1. Always hot/​warm and freshly made every day.
2. Their coffee is pretty good compared to most other bakeries in Brooklyn.
3. This is the only good bakery around my neighborhood, sadly?
Their hot dog buns are okay. Their spare ribs rice noodle is alright too. They don’t have the best roast pork bun in the world either. But eh I guess they’re enough to satisfy my bakery craving or my breakfast hunger.

I’m more Chinese than this place! I walked in here with my bf and we were wanting some bubble tea… bad. So, we settled for this place and figured, how hard could it be to make? The girl made the drinks very hastily while no one was even in the place, and she just threw ice in. The drinks were room temperature — so much for getting ‘refreshed’.
Give me a day in here, and I’d pull in more service after a good scrub down.

This bakery has dry buns and horrible customer service! For a while I went there for breakfast because it’s the only place around that sells buns. They’re at a great location for business — near the train station and New Utrecht High School but unfortunately their food tastes horrible. The people who work there seems like they haven’t slept in weeks and they have no clue what’s going on.

typical run of the mill dirty chinese bakery for your baos. i’ve had better baos in SF. but hey, i just stopped by one day on the way to the D train into Manhattan because i wanted to try something local besides Dunkin donuts for breakfast.

JUST STAY AWAY. ONCE I SAW FLIES INSIDE W/​THE BUNS. WHEN I TOLD THEM, THEY JUST TOLD ME TO EITHER BUY OR LEAVE. What kind of serivce is that???

In the old days, before Chinatown got on the D train at Grand Street and got off in Bensonhurst, there weren’t many places around to get bubble tea (provided that Gino and Gina from 18^th Avenue even knew what it was). Then Mei Mei Bakery Incorporated (Please don’t forget «Incorporated») came along and voila, we had a place to get bubble tea, butterfly cookies and all the other butter-​soaked («butter»), tapioca-​filled, sugar-​laden joys we usually had to go to Chinatown in Manhattan to procure.
I haven’t tried some of their specialty items like the hot dog pastry, although the pastries with red bean paste are lightly sweet, and as I mentioned, they make great bubble tea (and they have a nice assortment of other Chinese/​Asian drinks).
Atmosphere-​wise, it’s dull as dishwater, but you don’t go to Mei Mei Bakery Incorporated for the cafeteria-​like atmosphere and wall calendars with Chinese women holding pomeranians while swooning at Lamborghinis. It’s an in-​and-​out kind of thing since it’s right below the 79^th Street D/​M station and it does brisk business which tells me that someone must like it.
In my experience, the employees there speak little English which can kind of be a wrench in the gears when you’re trying to order, but some clever pointing and yelling usually does the trick. Even the New Utrecht High School set has discovered this place, so perhaps their English is improving (or not).

On my recent trip to NY I had breakfast 3 days here. When you first walk in you know everyone that comes here is Chinese and getting their bao and coffee and hopping on the D or M into Manhattan.
When you get in line, you should know what you want because the ladies behind the counter are hastily and want you out of there fast. This is nice if you know what they are saying and what you want, but if you are unsure you might as well step aside and let all the other people cut.
I only had buns (bao) here, the popular pineapple, nhi wong, and red bean bun. The pineapple bun was very dry and the crust was not at all crisp that would melt in your mouth. My favorite was the red bean bun, it was sweet and had a lot of topping so I didn’t feel like I was paying too much, then again $ 0.80 for a bun is quite pricey coming from SF where buns go for around $ 0.50 to $ 0.80.
This would make a great place if you needed something quick for breakfast and hop on the subway to work.

Edit: I’ve given them a second try and while the service is still lacking, the red bean buns and pineapple with egg custard bun are tasty. I do stop by once in awhile now to pick up one of these two items.
Sub-​par food and bad service. They overload all their items with sugar. I live very close to this place and even though there aren’t any other bakeries around, I still don’t eat here!