37 Degrees

I love this place for unique Chinese desserts. I have been to this place before when I order the mango Gigi which satisfied my mango craving. This time when I went I was in a search for The elusive snow ice I heard so much about that is great for a hot day! It totally filled me up and thing that I ordered with it that made it taste really good was add the cold white noodles (very smoothly milky texture) on the bottom with condense milk and aloe vera in it. simple and tasty. I was so full for an afternoon snack and later at night I had to eat a small dinner. The thing with ordering snow ice is that you will get confused in what ingredients to add to make it taste good, my friend told me what to add to make it more flavorable. So that dessert really fills you up. If you want something hot and not too sweet, you might like to try the hot tofu dish. I didn’t care for that. I enjoyed my Snow ice! yummy in my tummy! You will find me there again in the next heat wave! It good to have an nice treat once in a while because this stuff can be fattening!

This is a decent Asian dessert place. The seating is pretty tight and can get crowded at times. In any case, their dessert menu is very extensive and has a lot of good variety! If you want shaved ice, you order from a separate paper menu and check what you want. I got a mango base with pineapple, mixed jelly yogurt chips as toppings, and caramel sauce. Don’t expect to get much of the toppings, as you can see from the pictures. There are 50 cent additional topping options, but I wouldn’t recommend that, as they don’t give you much anyways. The shaved ice itself is very good. Light, flaky, not too heavy, but still flavorful. My friends got dragon eyes and guava with tadpoles over shaved ice, and a black sesame/​almond milk drink. Good texture and flavor throughout their desserts. Overall a good place to come to in SF if you want sit down dessert and don’t mind feeling cramped for some time. This place would be much better if the seating was better and they didn’t offer toppings that I could consume (all 3) in one bite. Other than that, great place so have some nice sweets!

Mediocre shaved ice. It’s the Taiwanese-​style shaved ice with the flavors infused into the ice, but still, it wasn’t very good. Portions were small as well.

Ehhhhhhhhhh… Wanted to go to a dessert place and this was a close place from where I had dinner. This place was kinda… Gross. Kinda dirty feeling.
Anyways, on to the food. Got this fried custard thingy. Very tasteless. Powdered sugar couldn’t even save it. On the other hand, got a baked pudding with taro. That’s the only reason why they got a second star.
Ambiance, like I said, place felted kinda dirty. The sweats weren’t that comfy. Meh… Wouldn’t come back here. Sorry.

Came to 37 Degrees for some late night eats after I sadly mistimed the open hours of Craftea. They have a lot of options for dessert, but ultimately not being of complete sound mind and judgment at the time, I decided to stick with eggettes and my friend decided on satay udon.
My eggettes were definitely a little overdone, but definitely not inedible. They just weren’t as fluffy as they ought to be. In my mind, eggettes ought to be crispy on the outside, then light and fluffy on the inside. I’ve still yet to find a dessert place here that can make them somewhat comparable to street vendors in other places. The udon looked filling enough, but I didn’t get a try, so I can’t say all too much.

Did this place change names and/​or owners? Because I swear I wrote a review for a dessert place here before…
Despite the fact we had literally just finished eating dinner at Hot Pot Garden up the street (this was right before their fire), my friends and I found ourselves walking into 37 Degrees for some dessert. I’m not quite sure how the idea came about, but I do recall the words «there’s always room for ice cream» being thrown around once or twice. Probably because it’s true…
Out of the usual sorts of Asian snacks and desserts on the menu, I opted for the GREEN TEA SHAVED ICE with Strawberries, Kiwi, Chocolate Chips, and Condensed Milk. Because, like we said, there’s always room for ice cream! Even if it did kind of look like a (tall) salad, that’s to be expected with Green Tea Shaved Ice (side note: the chocolate one kind of looked like shaved beef).
Although the kiwi and strawberries were pretty fresh, I didn’t think the ice cream was that great. Even by Asian dessert shop standards, it was both bland and icy. Even sadder considering the fact green tea is one of my favorite flavors too! The condensed milk may have helped, but I feel like 100% Sweet Café’s green tea shaved ice is slightly better in comparison.
As far as their other snacks/​desserts go, I’ve only tried their French fries (random, I know) and one of their mango pudding dishes, both of which were rather pedestrian. That being said though, everything on the menu is pretty cheap, which possibly explains why there’s a wait for a table. That and the fact that place is pretty tiny. In any case, 37 Degrees is passable if you’re hard up for dessert in the area, but there are better places around for both shaved ice and the Asian desserts.
TWO AND A HALF STARS rounded down.

Mango Shaved Ice-​look for a menu on a table to select what flavor of ice you want + 3 toppings + a sauce
Mango Ice-​artificial mango flavor, had the consistency of honey yet with a much lighter airy quality
Toppings-​sadly, the amount is minuscule and didn’t add much value to the dish
Service is definitely slow (the night we went it was 1 girl in charge of everything so I understand how rough she had it
Price point is affordable for almost everything but keep in mind you pay for what you get it.
Not the best for groups unless you can snag a few tables to push together
Lots of variety besides dessert so no worries if you want a snack
Overall Thoughts
Would definitely not go out of my way to come back but didn’t dislike it so much to rate it any lower

Such a good place for asian dessert!
We came here during sat afternoon close to dinner time and there weren’t a lot of people here. After quickly sitting down, we got 2 desserts and 1 noodle. They have a huge selection in term of regular shaved ice, stewed dessert or just asian desserts in general, as in this is a full fledged legit dessert/​tea house.
Everything tasted very good, just like what you would expect in a dessert place in asia.
Their mango snow ice looks very tasty on the menu. I think they do it in a froyo style as in you can choose the flavor of the shave ice, as well as toppings and sauce. I will definitely try it next time.

Nice clean place which has awesome shaved ice!
Both times I went by there was always an employee cleaning the place which is good to see. I took away one star since I felt they come have been more generous with their toppings. But overall they made my orders perfectly fine. I will definitely be back!

To be fair I only tried 3 desserts from 37 Degrees but I know that I will only be returning for the warm sweet tofu pudding (豆花). Honestly, the presentation in the circular wooden container with a small container of syrup on the side did make my dessert more enjoyable. I also tried the Mango Gi Gi and Green Tea Shaved Ice. Both were okay but not worth returning for.
The shaved ice menu is a piece of paper that you fill out with your flavor, 3 toppings, and 1 syrup on top for $ 4.50. I enjoyed the flavor of the green tea but the sticky, gooey texture was off-​putting, which is why I preferred the silky, softy tofu.
What I recommend:
— sweet tofu pudding

Looking for a good dessert place? DEFINITELY DO NOT COME HERE. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
This place isn’t bad when you first walk in. It wasn’t busy so we were seated right away. But seating was a bit cramped.
I wanted shaved snow and this place came up on Unilocal.I knew right away what I wanted. They give you a menu, but you order on these papers they have in a cup on the table. Then you have the wave down the server who doesn’t look real happy and will give you attitude. Now you wait for your shaved snow, which takes like 30 mins to make. It looks amazing, but right when you dig in you’ll notice the texture is very unusual. it sticky and gooey and abnormally shiny. I took a bite and it was like eating pure sugar. It was too sweet and tasted nothing like shaved snow. It comes in a large portion too. We ended up just eating the toppings.
The shaved snow was disgusting and the service was horrible. Maybe they were having an off day, but I never came back and I never will.

Why is it so hard to find quality snow ice around here!!!
I was probably expecting too much, but the snow ice was just OK.
We chose the original flavor– which is basically just condensed milk. Texture wise it was very odd– like almost sticky, it comes out very stringy looking, but still tasty.
Toppings– DON’T get the honey pearls and tadpoles. I was expecting chewy boba– but its actually like hard gelatin that is crunches when you bite it. So very unappealing.
Not memorable enough for me to want to come back– especially since it’s so out of the way from my local SF haunts.

Nothing special here, just another dessert place in the sunset/​richmond area trying to recreate the experience of Hong Kong late night foods. The restaurant echosthe atmosphere well, but the food is a little off. We ordered the shaved ice, which was expensive and lacking in flavor. 37 degrees gets a little fusion-​y with this dish, serving up toppings like oreos and cookie dough as options– major turn off.
I ordered the mango and black glutionous rice dish– a favorite of mine, and it was poorly done. The rice was not sticky at all, but rather hard and each grain of rice separated from the other.
This place is good if you are just looking for a place to hang out and are in the area, but I would definitely not make the trip out otherwise.

I would never come to this place again. The moment that my friends and I walked in, the workers didn’t even acknowledge us until we went over to the and tapped their shoulders. After we had sat down, it took them forever to give us a menu, when the store was empty! I’ll understand if they had forgotten us if there were a lot of customers, but there wasn’t anyone!
I ordered the shaved ice and the strawberry and vanilla ice cram waffles with fruits. I had high expectations for the shaved ice since I’ve heard many good things about it. Sadly when it came, it looked good but it tasted like really nasty.
I would not recommend this place for dessert at all.

I was all excited for boba on Taraval with a friend that I haven’t seen in forever. Well, he’s kinda the adamant type, so he ended up wanting to go to 37 Degrees because he was familiar with it. We got in around 8:00ish last Thursday and it was empty. We glazed over their extensive menu, and totally missing Kowloon Tong’s mixed fruit ice cream waffle sandwich, I ordered the waffle with mixed fruits and ice cream ($ 5.50) to share. It literally came out in two minutes max… always a bad sign right?
The waffle wasn’t warm, and it was super chewy. so it most likely was microwaved. The fruit was fine and the ice cream was a strawberry flavor and a green tea flavor with a random drizzle of chocolate and sprinkles. The ice cream was a teeny bit bland. The menu just shows pics and titles of the items without a description or a choice of ice creams. It was horrible! I would rather deal with a further drive and issues with parking near Kowloon Tong then head back to 37 Degrees. They are cash only too, FYI. There’s just so many other options in the area and surrounding area.

DO NOT FALL FOR THESE PICTURES! I saw no such presentation. This has to be one of the TOP 3 places that I will never go to again. The service and food SUCKS! I don’t even know why people even come here or how they are even legally serving this so called ‘dessert’. I came hungry one night because some friends wanted to grab dessert and this was close to us. I ordered a Ham and egg sandwich (picture will be posted after this review) which I always do for places like this since I’m not a sweets kind of guy.
It took awhile for a damn ham and egg sandwich to come out and I was in total disgust when it did. The bread was soggy, 1 thin slice of ham, a lot of mayo, and about 2 – 3 tiny ant size piece of egg white, and it was drizzled with chocolate on the plate for design. WTF RIGHT?. I couldn’t even eat it. How can they make people pay for such disaster? It’s cash only just like most Chinese dessert places. I should’ve paid in pennies with zero tips for such horrendous food.
Anyway, like I said… don’t be fooled by the pictures posted of this place. I posted a picture of what you can easily make at home which is a lot better than what you pay for here. I would give this place zero stars if i could. This is definitely a stay away place.

Ehhh so this place is alright.
It’s a small dessert stop along the mini stores on Taraval in the Outer Sunset. It’s within the same strip as Super Cue Café.
I believe I’ve been here a few times, but every experience is the same for me. I always seem to get desserts that taste so. Mediocre, to say the least.
I’ve had the coral nest thingy (if it were amazing, I would’ve probably remembered the name lol). Apparently coral is rich in nutrients so I thought hell, why not? It also had strawberries, which naturally would attract me to it since its my favorite fruit :^).
That tasted pretty interesting. Not sure if coral is supposed to leave a starchy feeling to your mouth, but it did for me. On a most recent visit, I got to try their shaved ice since apparently theirs is exceptional. For their shaved ice, you have to fill out the paper that’s provided there in every table. Its like a checklist where you check off what you want for your shaved ice. You can customize one flavor, 3 – 4 toppings, and one syrup flavor (additional toppings are 0.50 more each). I tried the green tea shaved ice with red bean, mixed jelly, and aloe vera.
When it came out, I was somewhat. Disappointed. I dunno, maybe they changed the amount of toppings that they give from back then, but they totally skimped out on it for my shaved ice. I like to eat food with my eyes, and with the presentation of the shaved ice, I wasnt too impressed. Upon taking a whack at it, it was über icey and bland at first, but I guess when it really melts, it starts to taste like something. Not the best shaved ice I’ve tried, but not completely the worst either.
Service is never here. The workers are always socializing, so if you’re hoping for your check, you better just walk into the front and get their attention. We also asked for hot tea, never got it. I’ve never tried their savory foods, but I do t think I would want to.
Their mango desserts are exceptional. But if I want something that will actually make me full, I might as well go to Super Cue for a milk tea and get food elsewhere lol.
Cash only. What’s new?

Not too hot with this place.
The service was borderline non-​existent. The waitresses seemed to prefer socializing rather than paying any attention to the customers. It took forever for our group’s order to be taken. We only wanted one thing. Sheesh. She took our order then proceeded to socialize some more. You can guess how much longer it took for the order to be brought to the table.
We ordered a snow ice to share. There were beautiful ribbons of green tea snow ice, just like in the picture. Too bad the taste was not up to par. The texture had a nice feel, but the green tea flavor tasted odd, similar to sweetened jasmine tea. It was nothing like dessert matcha flavor. The fruit toppings were too sour and did not mesh well with the snow ice.
No one came by to refill our drinks or ask if we wanted anything else either. When my friend went to pay the bill (with tip), the lady had the audacity to give my friend a strange look, hold out her hand, and ask for more. Seriously? I do not reccomend this place to people looking to try snow ice for the first time. I can’t say the same for the other desserts since i haven’t tried them, but the service really discourages me from giving it a try.

Came in here late one night because this was one of the only places open in the area.
We stood at the door for a good few minutes before getting greeted or seated. When we were finally acknowledged, we were wedged between two other parties. The floors were grimy and tables were dirty and crumb-​filled. I felt really disgusted by the environment. Also since the tables are so close together, it can get really loud. Definitely don’t take a date or your parents here.
The menus had greasy fingerprints and nothing even looked appetizing. Again, we waited for someone to take our order, but nobody ever did. so we just got up and left. I had lost all desire to eat there anyway by the time.
The bf has been here a couple times in the past– he says it is «typical Asian café quality», whatever that means. Two stars because I guess «typical» doesn’t necessarily mean horrible and I should at least try the food once before dubbing it one-​star quality altogether.

So apparently some people came here expecting top notch service. Come on, its a small dessert shop and i didn’t take it personally when we were nodded toward the tables upon walking in and menus tossed on top of our tables. All I wanted was my dessert.
They have an extensive menu of items to choose from Korean stone pot bibimbap, fried rice, french fries, sundaes, egg puffs, pearl teas, ramen, udon. They also offer Fin Soup for… was it $ 3.75??? I think for me though i’d just stick to their dessert. Maybe snack on fries if i was hungry.
My mango shaved ice was fine but it was quite refreshing for me since I was craving a cold treat but not necessarily craving ice cream (gasp!). I don’t recommend the small pearl bubbles. When i ordered it I thought they were going to be those tapioca balls but they were hard pearlized candies almost like sprinkles except much harder. I felt like i almost chipped a tooth in the spoonful of shaved ice. Hubs had the mango sago with pearls. It was actually good.
Shocker! It’s cash only.