Sogo Bakery

The goods are aite. Came in at 5 on a weekday (Tuesday) and expected to find some buns here. Only a small collection and I saw buns still being baked in the back. I asked the cashier if any were coming out soon. She snaps back and yells at me, «NO, we no selling anymore!» God! Even though this is only a bakery, it still requires some staff that aren’t crazy. Goodness. Crazy lady on the loose!

My boyfriend brought me a few things from here: I’d say their pastries, buns, cakes range between 3.5−4 rating on taste.
They are friendly and nice with their customer service. Bring cash just in case though.
I had the tiramisu, it was light/​fluffy/​airy in the spongy part, the other part was a whipped cream like consistentcy. It was very good, I’d like to have it again.

Not as good moon cakes as in SF Chinatown, but ok enough. They have a variety of buns and breads which are sweet and savory.

I picked up a last minute birthday cake here — mulled over the choices and decided on the 8″ taro root cake ($ 24). It took awhile to decide on the cake — the mousse/​chocolate flavored cakes tend to be prettier, but I had wanted a fruit or taro flavored cake. However, the fruit/​taro cakes didn’t dress to impress (they weren’t as pretty). Do I go with what’s on the outside or inside? I eventually opted for the inside.
The cake was on the dry side, which made it a little disappointing — so much for opting for the inside, ugh. However, others in our party didn’t seem to mind. The cake also had little chunks of taro — didn’t really make the cake better or worse — would have been OK either way.
I’ll probably try a different place next time — no more dry cakes for me.

this sogo bakery is inside Marina market. they have the usual buns and breads. (not much of a dough eater). finally spotted the custard
eats: portuguese egg custard tart (1.25)
–not sure i liked it
–egg custard taste not so strong, creamy though.
–reasonable price, guess that explains why it’s cheap.

Delicious bread, cakes & pastries. It typically smells so heavenly each time I come here… nothing like the smell of a freshly baked goodies

I love bakeries! Although, I often don’t eat much of it. I mostly just buy it because it looks good, and hoping that someone at home will finish them. I go here during lunch sometimes because it’s right by my office. It is located inside Marina market, and I really love this market. As you enter, there’s a milk tea stand on your left, then you’ll see the bakery, and if you go down a little further there’s a hot food stand (reallllllly cheap). Anyway… Sogo Bakery has a lot of nice looking and tasty cakes, and all their individual goodies are great.

I would have to say its a bit pricey. I would also like to believe that the bread/​bakery stuff are pretty fresh, however, I did get a honey sponge cake and the next day it was already moldy. It made me wonder how long it has been sitting out there, for it to be moldy the next day.
Their cakes are so pretty. We had the tiramisu, it was pretty decent.
Their Korean Pearl Buns, are definitely not as good at 360Degree Bakery in the plaza right down street.
Everything else I’ve tried, is pretty typical. Nothing mind blowing.

go to place to get cakes for my parents’ birthdays. The workers there… are kind of… not very clear on what they are saying… I am left assuming what the questions mean.

This is a review for their post-​fire remodel business… I used to get all my treats and baked goods here, however, yesterday’s discovery really has forever alter the way I look at this place. I went to get some take out in that same shopping center and decided on a whim to pick up some of my fave spongecake cupcakes. While waiting in line, I noticed MOLD spots on some of them and gave it to the cashier. She threw it away but didn’t say anything!!! I jetted out sooooo fast, after! eeeeew

Damn the aroma form the kitchen here is so enticing. I’ve been to enough of these bakeries to know that unfortunately this is but a small selection on what can be made. Red bean, green tea bread is pretty tasty and since it’s loaded with so much stuff it lasts a crazy long time. Maybe the Taiwanese version of the Twinkie?

The clean cut, delicious Chinese Sogo bakery in Marina Food offers your basic pineapple buns, custard buns, red bean bun, green tea and red bean buns, raisin toast, pork sung toast, green onion pork sung, walnut papoose bun, danish garlic bread, coconut buns, cookies, cupcakes, cakes, swiss rolls, fruit tarts, and etc.
The buns are somewhat larger than usual. The prices for them range from $ 1.15-$ 2 and the loaves of bread are around $ 3.75. They sell beautiful fruit tarts for $ 18.
I got the European bun and the coffee walnut bun. Both were extremely plump and fluffy. The coffee walnut bun was especially delicious and the European bun was nicely textured but a little plain, though it did have nice raisins in it. Both buns were gorgeous looking, soft, and similar tasting. For the two buns, it was $ 3.25.
They offered a free sample of their toast and it was again, soft, fluffy, but it was a tad sweeter than usual. Sweet toast.
They have these really cute panda cookies ($ 2.49) that I want to buy for a friend next time I go. I like the prices of the breads they have special sales on.
Overall, clean bakery, some special items but they still taste like your average delicious Chinese bakery.

a pretty solid chinese bakery. i was a fan of their green onion/​pork sun buns and their custard buns (i prefer custard buns with a custard pudding, versus a chunky custard that they typically sell, and i found the pudding here, hooray!)
however, they don’t have char-​siu pork buns, sad. also, it’s located in this «food court», and the other food place sells chinese breakfast on weekends. i had a chance to try their you-​tiao (fried chinese donuts) dou-​jiang (soy bean milk). you tiao was fresh and oily and crispy, just how i like em. dou-​jiang was not sweet enough, i had to add more sugar. but they sure hit the spot.

Glistening roast ducks hanging by their necks on metal hooks. Stacks of bbq pork strips, jeweled with fat. Huge sharp cleavers chop through the meat and everything is packed and wrapped efficiently and I’m out the door.
These are a few of the things I look forward to on my pilgrimages to the bay area because my own town has a big vacuous space where asian deli stuff should be.
I hit up Sogo’s on my way out of town and fill up the cooler with more than I could possibly eat. I am forced to share.
This is how I win friends and influence people.

I just visited this place after so long, and it’s still nice. I got a mango mousse cake for my coworker’s birthday, and he really liked the cake. I liked it too, except there was a little too much whipped-​cream frosting on it. If there was less, everything would have been perfect, as the cake was fresh and sweet, but not overly sweet. There were a few pieces of mango inside the mouse, and the mouse was fluffy and creamy. The white cake was also soft and light, just as Asian cakes should be. The presentation was also excellent.
I’d only wish they had a smaller box for the smaller cakes, as I bought the one that serves about 4 people… and the box was big enough for the one that serves 6 – 8. Also, cutting the cake was somewhat difficult, as the hardened (and overly sweet) white chocolate vertically surrounding the outside of the cake didn’t enjoy being sliced perpendicularly. (And you have to remove the ribbon, before cutting too.)
The service was good and fast, and I was helped immediately. The prices were exceptional.
The pork sung bun (a favorite of mine) from here was also yummy.
Note: credit card purchases must be for $ 15 and up.

I usually don’t like Asian bakeries, but I am giving 4 stars for the chocolate mousse cake. If you love rich chocolate, I highly recommend it. The other cakes are a little too spongy/​rubbery for me, but if you like asian cakes, you will probably like it. All the cakes are pretty :) The people who work there are super nice too.

6^th grade cousin: You don’t KNOW Sogos???
Me: There aren’t any in SoCal (thinking: You arrogant thorpe! Want to bust out some calculus problems and see who can solve them first?).
And even if you know Sogos, I don’t think you should be proud to be spreading that knowledge around. Kee Wah Bakery seems to be better. Although nothing is better than the freshly Asian baked goods of Japan and Taiwan. Mmmmmmmmmm.

Every birthday cake, take-​to-​a-​potluck cake, new years cake, and let’s-just-buy-a-cake cake I have ever purchased or gotten has been from a Sogo bakery. I like this one because it’s roomier, it’s only a mile or two away from home, and my friend’s mom works here.
The eatery within the bakery is also a great place for Taiwanese style beef noodle soup, fantuan (rice balls), and side dishes, which includes my favorite, the Taiwanese equivalent of tofurkey. It’s literally translated «vegetarian chicken,» and it’s bajillion layers of thin tofu skin all wrapped together. It tastes absolutely nothing like chicken, but it is very yummy.
Back to the bakery itself… we used to fly my grandpa in from Tacoma, WA so that we could celebrate his birthday with his favorite: a taro cake from Sogo. He’s not around anymore, but his legacy lives on through my entire family’s addiction to taro and water chestnut flavored Sogo cakes. It’s one of those things when you’re like «what the hell kind of flavor is that?» until you try it. They’re both very subtly sweet, sparingly frosted, and are filled with actual taro or water chestnut paste with little chunks of taro and water chestnut throughout. Seriously, it’s better than it sounds.
The tiramisu and black forest cakes, as well as the New York style cheesecake are probably the least authentic items they carry, but forget what they call it, and the cakes are still frickin delicious. I’d also recommend the mango mousse cake, the Japanese cheesecake (which is rather authentic), and any of their numerous selection of fruit-​filled cakes.
The bakery also makes little light-​breakfast-​sized buns of many many flavors. The pineapple bun is very popular, and kind of looks like an old school grenade. The grenade bun is also very good, and it’s actually shaped like a nerf football. Go figure. The bread is nicely airy, has a little bit of a chew to it, and is overall, nicely textured, with just enough flavoring stuck throughout. A few of the buns (green onion, corn, ham, hot dog, green onion w/​cheese) have a tendency to be greasy. I just avoid them and stick with the pineapple, grenade, or coconut buns. There are plenty of other flavors to try as well if you so choose.
The bread they make is infinitely yummier than wonderbread. Unlike the buns they make, the bread is somewhat dense, and unlike with your average sliced bread, people tend to like the crusts. There’s something about the sliced bread they make. It’s freshly prepared in the bakery every day. If you’re lucky enough to walk in at the right time, you can buy a loaf of freshly baked and sliced bread in a little plastic bag still warm enough that they just give you the twisty tie to put on yourself to prevent sogginess. I’d recommend that you eat it within a few days. Not that it isn’t good after that, but as they don’t tend to put preservatives in their bread, it doesn’t keep for too long. The plain bread is great by itself, or toasted and buttered. I’d also recommend the red bean bread, the cream cheese bread, and the pork sung bread. In no particular order. All their bread is good :)
Writing about this place from 500 miles away makes me wish I could go home again, even though I only got back less than a day ago.

Been going here for birthday cakes for the past 6 years. Haven’t bought a cake that I wasn’t happy with. Even when I was away in college, my parents still made the effort to bring a Sogos birthday cake during their visit, so I can enjoy cake as try to recover from the night before.
In high school I went through the trouble of dodging security guards, lying to secretaries, to cut school for some of their fresh pastries for lunch. Well worth not eating mysterious school lunch. Had always gotten pastries stuffed with meat or coconut, but recently discovered garlic rolls. Last year my co-​worker brought a box full of garlic rolls from here and even though it was a day old, it was delightful after a quick pop into the toaster oven.
Only downside is that they quickly run out of the good stuff and it doesn’t seem that they replace it. It’s a bit disappointing when I’m having a mad craving, maybe for garlic rolls or coconut bread, only to come here and see that it’s all gone and the workers say there’s no more coming out of the oven anytime soon. Boo hoo.

Sogos shares a space with a Chinese deli, this review strictly for the deli.
This deli is jam packed with people on the weekend. They have the standard hanging roast duck, chicken and pork. Their cafeteria style Chinese food is reasonably priced and constantly being replenished by the chef. They have two different types of seaweed, chilled and marinated. I don’t see that often and it was a welcome surprise.
No matter if you are adventurous or conservative, you’ll find a dish here for you, it’s quick and economical.