Pineapple King Bakery

Wanting to write a review for this place. My son bought me a birthday cake back in January 7, 2015 and need a cake so badly for Friday. He saw a post on my FB page that I wanted the PKB Special — Matcha Green Tea Cake with Chocolate Ganache topped with French Macarons.
When he arrived there he ask them if he can reserve the cake and pick it up the next day. My son told me they did a little customization to the cake which is a plus.
He surprised me with the cake when I got home from work but, I couldn’t enjoy yet because he had to work over the weekend. I saved the cake until Monday cause I didn’t want to cut the cake alone.
After 4 days the cake was still fresh, moist and the fruits were still fresh!!! I couldn’t believe it. Look like we just bought it. The macarons did not became soggy either. I can tell PKB uses the freshest ingredients! I’m so amazed how long the cake lasts. It took us 7 days to finish the cake and it was still good. The fruits did not go bad either in which places I have experienced in the past the fruits lasts 3 days max.
I would recommend this cake is so delicious. I will see if they can do a customized cake or customized macarons for baby shower. This is my new favorite bakery store. Even though it’s so far away from where I live but it’s worth the trip to get delicious cake! Thank you PKB for making an amazing delicious cake!

I like this bakery because it’s at least 10% cheaper than Sheng Kee nearby and their pastries are fresh and piping hot. You grab a tray and self serve. There are some combos — look up the wall in back of the cashier. You can get 2 buns and a hot coffee or milk tea for $ 3 – 4.
If you buy a loaf of bread, you can also ask them to slice it for you, Free of charge

I’ve been coming here since they first opened. I love their coffee pineapple buns! They’re Chinese owned and operated. They only take cash. But today, they broke my heart. It wasn’t the food, it was how I was treated.
I thought I’d get some coffee buns for breakfast at work tomorrow (I’m at work before they open). Of course, I got a few other things while I was at it. I get up to the cashier to pay for my items when a lady from the back comes out with a tray fresh coffee buns announcing in Cantonese, «Fresh Coffee Buns!» I’ve already paid and the cashier is beginning to bag my items. The lady with the tray says to her in Cantonese, «Hey, switch out those for the fresh ones.» The cashier replies in Cantonese, «Don’t have to switch it out for foreigners.» I kept a straight face and looked her in the eyes. I think I was more in shock that they would do that as a business.
I don’t blame them for thinking I didn’t speak Cantonese, I’m really tan and was wearing workout clothes. But really? Did you have to say that with me right there? I think I was more in shock about what was happening to my very face.
Having grown up in San Francisco, I’m under no illusion that racism exists. But sometimes, reality really bites when thrown in your face.
But the food is really good!
–2 stars for Service
Thank you very much, please come again…

I’m in the car as I write this (in the passenger seat, of course!) and I just inhaled my Portuguese egg tart and Cha siu bao (bbq pork bun).
The Portuguese egg tart crust was flakey, and the filling was the most creamy custard I have ever tried!
The barbecue pork bun was out of this world. The bun was soft and buttery with ample bbq meat filling!

TAKES CASH ONLY. Great prices for traditional and new Chinese pastries. Came after dinner before closing so choices were more limited but still plenty to choose from. Already had dinner but just had to get a Chinese chicken bun. Prices were very affordable, bread on the bun bun was of good quality and the filling not too greasy.

Definitely pineapple bread kings!
Ordered the pineapple buns with original and matcha filling.

They really have the best pineapple buns, but what I really come here for… is their chilled HK milk tea at the front. There’s no ice inside which doesn’t dilute it or make it taste watery. It’s pretty strong but the condense milk inside makes it perfect.
Their warm pineapple bun with a slab of butter is super good. I really like their matcha filled mini pineapple buns too. They heat it up so it’s extra gooey inside. Plenty of other pastries, breads and cakes, def can’t go wrong here.

3.5 stars.
Great pineapple buns… especially when fresh! I opted for the special — match cream pineapple bun and it was delicious. I can’t wait to try the one with a pat of butter at a later date.
I’m docking off a star though for the rest of the pastries, which are mediocre at best. The custard cake was spongy but rather tasteless unfortunately. The location is quite small, so plan to grab-​and-​go!

EVENT: Grabbing some dim sum for the family for Christmas Weekend… checked my handy Unilocal for some good buns and bakery goods… came across this place… apparently amazing…
FOOD: There is no lie… this place is super dangerous, but I love it! This place… is definitely PINEAPPLE BUN everything … well, that’s what I got… hehe!
(1) BIG Pineapple Bun — 4 stars
(2) Little Pineapple Bun — 5 stars
(3) Little Pineapple Bun with cream stuffing — 100 stars **MUST GET** order… at the cash register!
NOTES: CASH ONLY!
**OVERALL: Dangerously pineapple! 5 stars! Will come again!

Delicious pineapple matcha puff! Make sure to eat them fresh, will try again
The lady is super nice too, if you don’t know what to pick, just ask =)

I think they put something in their bao dough to make their pastries so fluffy tasting.
Their hot dog baos are sooooo freaking good! My favorite!

Came here a month ago.
Got a bunch of buns and a meal.
They forgot my meal buns and only gave me a tea. I forgot to check because they put all the buns in a box. :(I was disappointed when my family was enjoying their buns while I looked for my hot-​dog bun and small pineapple only to not see either of them.
The tea was really bitter, but that’s okay. The cake was really good. Yummy fruit filling and almonds. My sister doesn’t like Chinese cake but she even enjoyed it.
Overall it was okay. :(still sad over that hot dog bun.

Yummy
Buns here are always fresh. Small batches and absolutely delicious. Small shop no seating. Cash only. Famous for their pineapple buns baked with a variety of meats and sweet fillings.
Friendly staff and street parking only. Extremely inexpensive buns too.
There are several other bakeries close by but I love this place because of the spam and fried egg bun.

I like this place mostly because it is dirt cheap. SO and I were walking around the area and looking for a snack when this place popped up over Unilocal and looked extremely promising. It’s basically just your typical Chinese bakery — as evidenced by the tongs and the lunch trays and the wax paper. BUT it somehow has maintained old school prices, it’s fantastic. So I’m really giving this four stars for how cheap it is, not how good the food was. I just got a simple pineapple bun which was less than $ 1 I think. But… honestly it was a pineapple bun. I’ve definitely had better ones before… and this one didn’t stand out at all.
tldr; typical Chinese bakery, getting that fourth star from me because it is dirt cheap. food is decent

LOVE the spam and egg bun ($ 1.80) — an «elevated» version of the typical ham and egg bun ;)
mini pineapple buns with custard (2 for $ 1.50) — are delicious and filled to order. be sure to eat them warm and have napkins handy — these things are messy!
saw a fly buzzing around the cakes hence the minus one star.
service is also hit or miss — definitely a plus if you speak cantonese.
cash only.

I had a good experience my first time here, so I decided to come back. The place is a little small, but people go in and out so it’s not a big deal. I ordered the pineapple puffs because that’s one of the popular items here. The last time I had it, I didn’t eat it fresh so I didn’t really enjoy it. This time I ate it right away and it was so good! I got egg tarts again because they were pretty good last time too. They didn’t have chicken cookies, which I wanted but hopefully they’ll have it next time I come. I’ve walked around a bit, but nothing really caught my eye. I’ll look more carefully next time. The Thai tea and milk tea that they have out is so tempting, but I wish they made it fresh instead of having it sit there already. The place is pretty clean and the workers are pretty nice. I’d still be coming back

One Saturday morning you lie in bed and Unilocal bakeries and this place shows up as being a couple of miles away. That’s when you say, «Oh that’s an easy walk.» Suffice to say that easy walk is not easy when you have to drag a 42 lbs, 5 months old untrained puppy along, who thinks every street’s got snausages, the best kind are the freshly made horse droppings. Dragging her through the GGP proved to be of a challenge, but we were not deterred. The real challenge turned out to be my lack of geographical senses. I had no idea, for instance, between 20 and 27^th ave on Irving is filled with Chinese restaurants, bakeries and grocers. Truth be told, I’m not familiar with and completely intimated by the Avenues. I stopped at nearly every store and checked out everything. A less than 2 mile across the park became a 4 mile hike between Abby and my dawdling. At last, an hour and half later, we finally arrived at a mobbed small storefront next to a much bigger Sheng Kee bakery just a few doors down.
Immediately attracted by McDonald’s style happy meal style signage, I ordered B and C, with the distinct Hong Kong style efficiency and decisiveness, along with a bunch of other Cantonese pastries to take home.
I’m a mixture of Southern and Northern Chinese, Han and Manchurian. On one hand, I am drawn to northern style food like sauerkraut, liverwurst, fermented beans and hand made noodles that are akin to Russian, German and Korean cuisines, ordering dishes with a nasal Pekingese accent; on the other hand, I’m completely smitten by anything that resemble Hong Kong and Macau bakeries, and often blurring out near-​perfect Cantonese when confronted by the Avenues’s Chinese Americans who are most often Cantonese in origin. This establishment evokes the youth in me, where custardy goodness coupled with pineapple crunchiness baked goods dominated my teenage years. Having moved with my family to the hustle and bustle Pearl Delta region boarding Macau, I remembered fondly stopping by those pastry shops like this one on my way to my high school.
Take out trays were handed to me. For $ 3, aka depression era pricing, you get 1 small pineapple bun filled with custard, 1 pineapple bun egg and ham sandwich, or 1 pineapple bun egg and spam sandwich (get this one, you must! it’s nearly as good as Liholiho Yacht club without the triple digit price tag), and coffee or Hong Kong style milk tea. That’s the kicker. Hong Kong style milk tea is delicious. All inclusive, with a price like $ 2.90 or $ 3. Less than McDonald. One tray is perfect for two complete sets.
We took our tray and headed back into the park. Once on the Richmond side, we found a bench and sat down and enjoyed our reward for a near 5 mile walk. As luck may have it, I promptly tipped my milk tea and it ended up on the ground. Abby, not missing a beat, immediately lathered it all up and then proceeded to kick the cup around until the last drop was spilled and consumed.
She’d do well in Hong Kong, my black furry Golden Saint.

This place is freaking TINY and ca$h only. You grab a tray and some tongs and load it up with what you want.
Most items are less than $ 2, and the baos are of decent quality. I would have to say a lot of them are better than Sheng Kee because the bread is softer.
The claim to fame for this joint are the pineapple custard buns. They’re 2 for $ 1.50 and you have to order it at the register. They are made to order so sometimes there is a wait. The pineapple custard buns are smaller than the average pineapple bun but that’s ok. The custard is warm and injected in. Eat it right away to enjoy it’s gooey goodness. The top crust is flaky and slightly crunchy like how a pineapple bun should be, and the bread soft. The pineapple custard buns here are a guilty pleasure of mine. Thankfully I don’t always have cash on hand so I won’t be tempted to get these all the time.

Credits go to the employee, at the counter, for being knowledgeable about her recommendations when their on-​screen menus were not operating.
This place is inexpensive as I can get 3 buns for $ 2.75. Ordered the mini pineapple buns w/​egg custard filling (菠蘿王 — 2 for $ 1.50) and a pineapple bun with a slab of slightly melted butter (菠蘿油). I understand the pineapple bun with slightly melted butter is a HK thing, and perhaps it’s just me being ABC, but I’m not fond of enjoying bread with butter that’s not spread out; nonetheless, it is worth the try. The mini pineapple buns, though, are tasty and worth the money. They’ve been opened for 2 weeks so I’d give them another try when kinks are worked out.

Super delicious bo lo bao to a whole new level with pineapple puff pastries! Made to order and at 2 for $ 1.50, I’m sold!
Think super light cream puffs inside the cutest and perfect mini pineapple buns. And if that rocks your boat just thinking about it, stop by and order! You won’t regret it!