Red House Bakery

I just had their 鴨飯 (duck with rice) and it’s sooo good. I cant believe such dish exist in the hood. I dont think u can find a better place for duck rice. I attached a photo, it doesnt capture the taste but at least u get the picture.

I really love their breakfast menu. It is cheap and good size for breakfast. They serve Chinese breakfast and American breakfast. Their bakery price is food too. You can get buns from 50 cents to 1 dollar and up. I will recommend this place if you are looking for quantity instead of quality. Great cheap place to fill your stomache if you aree not a picky eater.

Haven’t been here myself, but a coworker gave me one of their giant almond cookies yesterday. Crunchy on the outside with bits of walnut, even though its an almond cookie, chewy on the inside.
As an aging Asian lady, I thoroughly enjoyed this with my hot water.

Lots of smokers just hanging around this place. Many are smoking right outside the open door. Virtually no parking can be found due to large number of loiterers just jabbering over a cup of coffee. They are now cash only and I’m going to be looking for a new place to go.

Aside from my boyfriend, Red House has the only other Chinese buns I’ll dream of!
I’ve eaten pineapple buns from a lot of places, but the best is from this Portola bakery. The bread is light and soft, which contrasts nicely with the crisp but not crumbly topping. My favorite part is how the sweet topping covers almost the entire surface of the bun, so there’s a lot of sweet crust to enjoy with every bite. Come here as early as you can to get the freshest buns possible and enjoy the contrast in textures even more!
They’ve got a huge variety of other buns and even cakes, but the pineapple bun remains my favorite. Runners-​up include the cocktail bun and sponge cake. The cocktail bun is a small, light, and fluffy roll with a lightly sweet filling inside. The sponge cake is also lightly sweetened and fluffy.
The Hong Kong milk tea here is legit: prominent tea flavor and lightly sweetened.
Red House is conveniently open as early as 6:00am. My friends and I have stopped by for buns and milk tea en route to Tahoe for snowboarding. We’ve also stopped by several other times to pick up breakfast before early morning plane flights.
This is definitely my favorite Chinese bakery in San Francisco.

This place is a cute little hidden gem. As a «80-​after» Hongkonger, this bakery reminds me of the exact breakfast/​lunch place on the ground floor of our public housing building in the 1990s.
I can continue with my storytelling all day long, but the emphasis here is the food. My girlfriend and I arrived at SFO on 2015 New Year’s Day and we made this our first stop. We tried Hot Milk Tea, Iced Lemon Tea, pineapple bun, egg tart, and curry beef stew rice. All are fantastic, especially the milk tea made me feel like home. You cannot simply compare this smoothness with any other so-​called bubble «TEA». The secret is in the condensed milk. It is the core of Hong Kong style milk tea.
A few Unilocalers mentioned the pigeons inside the bakery. Other than H5N1, I don’t see anything wrong with it.
And be prepared to speak Cantonese, otherwise you will have a hard time making your order to the authentic Chinese aunties that is poor in English (but think of it this way, that’s why it’s so authentic).

I am in love with their Pineapple buns, pork buns, and winter melon cakes. These are a must try.

Tasty char siu bao, and the pineapple buns are wonderful especially when they’re fresh and warm in the morning.

Came here for a quick breakfast Thursday morning before catching our flight.
They’re one of the few places on San Bruno that’s open early at 6 am!
It was pretty busy at 9 am. A lot of the residents nearby come to eat their breakfast and socialize here.
They’re food is CHEAP! I mean CHEAP! They have breakfast combos that gives you two dishes for $ 5!?! I got their porridge and pan fried noodle rolls. The bf got their noodle soup and pineapple bun. I also ordered an egg tart. It’s definitely a great deal for the amount of food you get, but their noodle soup and porridge was just average. Their pineapple bun and egg tart were delicious though!
Service was real quick and typical of an asian fast food restaurant.
Parking on San Bruno Ave is all street parking.

The buns here are delicious! I’ve tried their cocktail bun, egg tart, and BBQ pork bun (my favorite bun here). My boyfriend and his niece love the hot dog bun here as well.
Aside from the food, I will say that pigeons are always flying around inside the bakery and the inside doesn’t look very clean/​sanitary.

Grew up around this bakery. The best bun from when I was young til now is the PINEAPPLE BUN. These buns have the best crust I’ve ever eaten. I also like their plain bun/​dinner roll, not sure what it’s called. Breakfast combos here are also very cheap and satisfying and they give a lot! Their lunch meals are alright, I just go here for the buns: D

This place sucks I think they serve they own ppl better. I ordered the food was good but the place was dirty and the outside birds fly inside the café and poo and fly back outside they do not clean the front door right away it’s so nasty to eat like the and the owner is so mean lady.

Back when I had a pineapple bun addiction, this place hit the spot and then some. The buns were kept nice and warm throughout the day in the convection warmer and they even serve breakfast here which I’ve been meaning to check out for the longest time.
During the morning rush, it can be hard to grab a seat seeing as most of them are occupied by Asian laborers reading their newspapers or conversing with others.
Service is nice and swift and parking around this area is great for those of you looking to grab something to go or have a quick breakfast.

My go to bakery spot for Chinese buns!
You can’t go wrong with this place. I grew up with this bakery. I don’t eat any where else. The Cha Sui bbq pork bun is the best! Literally like crack! I believe it’s the best in SF!

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I absolutely LOVE their buns. My go to spot for chinese buns other than going to my absolutely fave in chinatown (Napolean).
My frequents picks are:
Cocktail buns
Pineapple buns (plain and with custard)
Hot dog Buns
Baked pork buns
Onion Bun
Ham and Egg bun
Egg Custard
Love this place. Parking is a pan but worth the «bun fix»

Best pineapple buns! ^ — ^
Not sure if it’s the chewy /​crispy /​just-​right-​sweet combo of the bun or family-​like feel or proximity to home that this is so great. This place has early hours — opens early and closes early.
Bring cash and do try their hot milk tea and egg tarts too. I am told you can’t resist just eating one of the latter and they may just rival GG Bakery’s.
Beware parking on San Bruno can be tough, so try a street in – away from 101. Note, the 8x or 8ax also runs along here, so it can be a quick and yummy pit stop on the way. :)

We got the Baked BBQ Pork Bun: a flat, sweet, chewy bun filled with sweet meat in a thick, glutinous sauce. A good balance of the salty and sweet ingredients made for a well-​flavored bun. One complaint among our group was about the parchment paper that the bun was baked on; it was quite difficult to remove, and when removed, took a layer of the bun with it!
This visit was part of a 6-​person BBQ Pork Bun Crawl to a bunch of San Francisco’s most popular bakeries. To read up on other bakeries we visited, check out my Unilocal list:
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This place rocks!
I was having this weird craving for egg custard tarts? Strange right. I could probably thank my monthly friend for all these weird cravings. Anywho, came here on a Sunday morning. Found a parking right in front! Call it fate :)
They have an extensive menu of baked buns which are mostly all warm upon receiving them. The egg custard tarts were yummy. Mmmmm. Forget all the other bakeries in the Daly City area that have chinese baked goods. Sheng Kee is alright but if I want affordable, yummy baked goods, I’m coming here.
I also ordered a cocktail bun (but the girl gave me a coconut bun instead which was just as good) and a hot dog bun. Those two little buns didn’t even get a chance. Into my tummy they went. Talk about eating and driving at the same time!
I don’t know about people’s comments saying the employees were rude. I’m pretty damn sure if you head into Chinatown, the people working in those fast food bakery places are rude due to the abundance of people but over here, the young chinese girl with the short hair and glasses was really nice and helpful. Even the other ladies working with her seemed nice to the non chinese customers.
Parking can be a pain since it is on San Bruno Ave but its right before the busy part of San Bruno Ave so it shouldn’t be that hard. No more heading to Chinatown or the Sunset/​Richmond district.
Another plus was they serve chinese food and have fresh fruit cakes for a great price at different sizes.
I’ll be back :)

Red House Bakery didn’t show any new baked goods that i could see. just ones from the previous days. they looked cheap though. and they do sel Tsing Tao, chinese newspaper here (.60)
eats: egg custard (.70)
–some slight egg custard flavor, nice crusts. pretty small
–coffee (sm1)
«america’s best» –name not seen. smooth and no harshness.
ok bur not memorable
coffee drips:
–parking terrible here
–contractor’s trucks parked everywhere, even double parked. at 6ish.

Their cakes are delicious! I picked up a half banana, half lemon birthday cake for my father-​in-​law here recently — the bananas in the cake were fresh and the cake was moist and fluffy, there was just the right amount of whipped cream in between the layers. It was very reminiscent of a banana cream pie, actually. The lemon side was cool and refreshing and equally delicious. I’ve also bought pastries here which have all been flaky, fresh and delicious.
I wish my review could be ALL positive BUT — when I came in to pick up my father in law’s cake, I was told they had mistakenly given it to someone else. I guess the clerk didn’t ask the person the right questions. But they offered to make me another cake and have it ready by the next morning. Thankfully, the cake was ready in time for the party and there was no harm done. I didn’t get a discount or anything, although I probably should have.
So overall I’d give this place a 5 for quality, 2 for service, and a 3 for pricing. Oh wait, now I have to make myself do math… what does that average out to? 3? Close enough :)