Kam Hing Coffee Shop
Chinese bakery · Little Italy
118 Baxter St, New York, NY 10013
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Highlights
Airy sponge cakes in many flavors & coffee served in a no-frills locale
Airy sponge cakes in many flavors & coffee served in a no-frills locale
"Kam Hing is the spot for when you want coffee that feels like a treat, but you don’t want to spend $7 on it. This Hong Kong-style café in Chinatown makes the best sponge cakes in town, which is important to note, since you can get sponge cake and a Thai or Vietnamese iced coffee for less than $5. It’s fancy coffee for when you don’t want to spend a lot of money, and it’s just as good as the pricier options on this list. Go all out and get some rice rolls too—your order will still clock in under $10. " - carina finn koeppicus
"Kam Hing Coffee Shop is a landmark of Chinatown. It opened its doors about 35 years ago and is famous for its light, fluffy, and moist sponge cake. Chinese-American owner Liz Yee and her family opened Kam Hing Coffee Shop as a way to pass down memories from generation to generation. Besides the original sponge cake version, you can find a multitude of flavors such as pandan, matcha, ube, black sesame, and coconut. We like to stop by in the mornings and start our day with at least two sponge cakes. And of course, we have to get a milk tea as well." - izzy chen, team infatuation
"According to an Instagram post from Kam Hing, a bakery known for its airy sponge cakes, has launched a special, limited-run strawberry lavender flavor at neighborhood stalwart, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory." - Caroline Shin
"Liz Yee runs Kam Hing Bakery, a more than 30-year-old Chinatown bakery staple that is best known for its airy sponge cakes. In spring 2020, she made the difficult decision to temporarily close Kam Hing, during a time in which Chinatown in particular was relentlessly affected by COVID-19, and xenophobic reactions to the virus. The bakery reopened in November 2020, but it really wasn’t until about a year later — with vaccines underway and the city somewhat returning — that Yee began noticing, for the first time, more young customers, especially tourists, who’d come into the bakery and tell her that they’d learned about Kam Hing on TikTok." - Emma Orlow
"A Kam Hing sponge cake is happiness baked into a $1.25 pastry. An institution dating back nearly 30 years, Kam Hing Bakery is known for its airy yet moist sponge cakes, which are nearly souffle-like in the middle. While they’re offered in a variety of flavors from matcha to chocolate chip, most are fairly subtle variations on the original vanilla sponge cake. Each order is extracted from a stack of giant Tupperware containers precariously perched like a Jenga tower. Kam Hing’s main location is discretely tucked into an office building, but they are also carried at sister concept Tonii’s Rice Noodles Rolls two blocks away on Bayard Street." - John Tsung
