Qq Bakery

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).

I wouldn’t come here if it weren’t for the gift cards I get from weddings. I honestly don’t know why ppl keep getting gift cards here. I always get a bunch of cakes using my gift cards, but honestly they’re not that good.
The designs are pretty cute, that plus the gift cards are the only reason I come here. The cakes doesn’t taste good. I know Asians doesn’t like super sweet things, but the cakes here are super bland. I get some cakes with fruits on top, and you know a cake is bland if the fruits are way sweeter than the cake.
The service here are sometimes ok ish, most times bad. Nobody greets u, and like the other reviews said, u have to yell and get ppl’s attention, or else u can just stand there forever. They will gossip and complain just so you know.
There’s only 3 tables so you can almost always guarantee no place to sit.
Unless you’re here for free cakes from gift cards, save ur money.

A mediocre Chinese bakery. Its mostly good for pre-​ordering cakes, since they have a pretty large selection, and their bulk prepackaged bread. I especially liked their prepackaged «steamed» bread with those dark swirls (they dont sell fresh steamed bread here!). They come 8 in a bag, and I would just steam them for breakfast or when I want a snack and freeze the rest.
I would discourage getting any of their bubble teas. They are not good… trust me. I tried like four different varieties and they all failed to impress. Their prices are okay. I definitely noticed some price bumps since the last time I came. Most of their pastries now are over a dollar, which is not very competitive, but decent.

Bad quality. They told their customers they can only have bad ingredients. Ridiculous!

The «hot milk tea» is made with Lipton tea bags that you can buy in any stores. The rest of ingredients are milk and sugar. Nothing special, and over price. Maybe I was expecting a better crafted drink for the price they change and the type of business they are in.
The baked goods are delicious thou. The egg tart taste great!
Hence: DON’T BUY HOT MILK TEA. Just get the baked good.

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.

There’s no reason at all for all this hate for QQ Bakery. I live around the corner and stop in on a regular basis, and they have yet to let me down. They’re not perfect but I’ve left a satisfied customer every time.
Maybe it’s because I tend to come in the morning, but the pastries usually taste perfectly fresh, sweet, and moist. There is a massive variety on display. The QQ Pizza is fucking delicious, filling, and a steal at $ 1.50. Drinks go at or below market rate, everything is as cheap as it gets. At this price I don’t understand the need for raffle tickets.
Crowds? Every place in Chinatown is crowded. I shuffle my way to the front, politely get someone’s attention, point at what I want, pay cash and move along. I don’t know what else you expect as far as «customer service» goes from a clusterfucked counter service joint. I can’t speak Chinese, pretty much nobody behind the counter speaks English, and this has yet to be a difficult process for any of us.

This place use to be my usual pastry shop when I visit Chinatown but to my disappointing finding the other day, the staffs there are cheap. I purchased over $ 36 worth of products the other day and they only gave me one bag to hold all the heavy loads and wouldn’t separate them unless I pay an additional 50 cents for the bag. And if I don’t want to pay the additional 50 cents and want to separate the load, they would only give u two bags that are so weak that it would break on ur way home. Friend had the green tea bubble tea and said it taste like water. Definitely not a place that I would spend money on again.

good coconut egg tarts. milk tea wasnt good in my opinion. they have a nice selection of pastries and breads but i probably wont come back since nothing was good enough to make me want to come back.

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 décor
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!

A number of years ago, this place was pretty good. As of late, i wouldn’t even step into this place if it weren’t for the gift cards (my family has a bunch). There is really nothing to like about this place. There is no order at all… no lines. You’d have to get one of the ladies behind the counters attention. It doesn’t matter if you had been waiting for 5 mintues and someone who just came in cuts you off while shouting out an order. Their order will be taken first. Most (not all: excluding me of couse) of the people who comes in here are rude and loud. The ladies behind the counter are no better. Sometimes you’ll make eye contact with one of them thats not taking an order and they’ll ignore you! RuuuuUDE!
Two stars instead of one because i walk in with a $ 6 gift card and i leave with 2 watermelon slushies (pretty good). Its the only thing i get here.

Many years ago this place was somewhat decent. However the service the quality of the food has gone down the drain.
It is true that now of day most of their customers are using the gift card from the weddings. I assume that is what is keeping this business alive. I got a gift card and almost all of the food I bought was pretty bad that I did not want to finish it. Now that I know better I just buy the prepackaged cookies which are pretty good.

This place was sooooo… crowed I don’t know y since the service sucks…

EW. I will never voluntarily go buy anything from this store. There are tons of other bakeries to choose from in Chinatown.
This time, I came here because I was gifted a giftcard to this place. First thing I noticed is that they are charging high prices similar to that of the more famous and way better tasting Tai-​Pan on Canal Street. Secondly, there are not many options for bread or pastries. And thrid, when I came home, the bread was pretty terrible tasting. It was completely cold and just did not taste fresh.
All these factors combined compelled me to write this review. Bleh.

If I can give no star, I will. The ladies who work here are beyond rude. They act like you’re there to steal their money.

I’ve turned a complete 180 on Qq. I don’t know what happened, but their bread here is good now. I may even say that this is the place that I go to if I want some good bread. This place always has the taro bun and pineapple bun that I crave for and get this, it’s warm! Their recipe must have changed because now their buns are nice and soft and warm and I can’t stop myself from eating it all. I tell myself that I’m going to eat only half because I have to eat dinner later, but ughh. so good! But the prices have definitely gone up since the last time I’ve written a review.

First thing to give you some background, this place is not necessarily crowded because it’s good, but because most people are Fujianese and every wedding, this is where they get their bakery cards to give out and everyone ends up coming here. How do I know? I’m Japanese, but also Chinese and I’ve gone to several weddings since my dad has Fujianese friends and every time it’s gift cards to QQ.
Anyway, for the actual review. First, the prices are expensive and they’ve steadily increased for the past two years. They probably do that because they know that people are using the gift cards so they’re simply overpricing it so you get less with the card. All their baked goods are generally more than a dollar and the only thing that’s probably worth that $ 6 gift card is the sponge Asian styled cheesecake, though they call it Japanese styled Cheesecake, which makes me feel awfully awkward. Anyway, never get the bacon roll or anything meat related. It’s far too oily and greasy and it’s just disgusting.
The service is not that great either. I remember this woman working there and she essentially tries to confuse you by blurting out prices to you like crazy and tricking you a little out of your money. Otherwise, she «forgets» or «mishears» your order. She’s done that to me at least twice. I pray that woman doesn’t work there anymore. SHE’S SLY. But anyway, their gift cards aren’t even good for drinks, which sucks. Anyway, yeah. Unless you have gift cards you need to get rid of, save yourself the hassle and go somewhere better.
I would be nicer and give this place three stars, but it’s not just that it’s not that good. It’s overpriced. 2 STARS. BOO!

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.

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.

okay, for people who dont want to read the rest and want the final opinion:
I HATE IT HERE.
The service is terrible because the employees do not care that even though there are 25 people waiting in line, they still have to stop every 2 seconds to engage in social conversation with other ugly, old, just as bitchy co-​workers. SERIOUSLY, WHERE IS THE OWNER, HE SHOULD FIRE EVERYONE. Not only that, the employees don’t say or do anything when customers cut in line. if I owned this place I’d burn it down, even if it was my own bakery because that’s how much QQ sucks.