Mei Sum Bakery

Thought the rustic atmosphere and mediocre service indicated the food was good as Chinese restaurants usually tend to be. The reviews here were assuring, but I’ve never had cakes and pies as bad as these. I’m never picky about my food and finish everything, but the meat pie was sweet and pale pink, as if raw from the inside. The crust tasted like dense sawdust. And the coconut cherry cake tasted like it had been sitting there for days, the taste of stale and dust. I’m very sad it turned out to be this bad. But the prices were cheap :)

Been coming here for years and the old lady always ask how I’m doing and miss seeing me . They have the best bao with pork , sausage and eggs inside . I usually ordered 10 to go sometimes. Their congee is also good with a thousand years egg inside , scallions and pepper . Good for the morning breakfast and hangover . They have some dim sum items also. Good breakfast to go here and can’t go wrong. The best in Chinatown for bao.

I would rather come here for a $6 bahn mi than go to Panera a $12 sandwich. Apparently it’s the longest standing bahn mi shop in Chinatown. I have come here twice for pork and beef bahn mi (they also have tofu for protein) and both were nothing but fresh, filling, and flavorful. Add milk tea & sweet rice donut for an extra dollar and you have a whole meal. Pretty good deal! PS there is usually a long piece of cucumber in the sandwich. No cucumber in the photos because I asked them to take it out.

Never had such bad chinese food, but... 2 tasteless meat buns, 2 soy milk drinks, 1 mushy fried dough : total 7$. Was it worth it? Still NO.

The durian, pan-dan, and taro cakes are absolutely amazing!!! I love these cakes and get them for special family events. The pastries here are great. I always come here when I’m in Chinatown.

Unassuming bakery with excellent prices (cheapest in the area) and fantastic assortment. Don’t be surprised that it looks like an industrial break room, but the owners are kind and welcoming and the baked goods are very much worth it

Love their durian cake. I usually call the same day to order. It takes about an hour to bake a cake. Today when I called, a guy was answering the phone who spoke broken Vietnamese. I told him what kind of cake I wanted and what to write on it. He didn't bother to listen and kept saying "ok ok ok" and hung up. I had to call again and told him please write HBD Chanh. I'm buying the cake for my employee so I didn't want his name got mess up. 2 hours later, I came to pick up the cake, the guy went to the back to get the cake and rushed to box it up. I didn't get a chance to see the cake. No wonder he didn't want me to see the cake. The message on the cake was so sloppy. My 3 year old niece can write better than him.

I got a cold cut banh mi and 2 containers of beef rice rolls. First off, I think the rice rolls are overpriced at $5 each. They're pretty good, but this price is more than at dim sum, imo Second, the banh mi has good points and bad points. PROS: * pate! delicious meaty pate, you can definitely taste some of the liver * the cold cuts are pretty hardcore - I definitely got a slice of some terrine with a slice of pig ear which I loved CONS: * bread. Ouch ouch ouch, I could actually taste the scratches on the roof of my mouth after this sandwich. I think if you're more careful and eat more slowly it wouldn't be as much of an issue. * cold cuts are sliced pretty thick, which isn't the end of the world, but leads to less than stellar distribution. Overall, while this banh mi feels less "polished" than New Saigon Sandwich, the pate and the quality of the cold cuts are quite good. I would say Mei Sum and New Saigon are objectively equal but have their own pros and cons. NSS' bread is better and everything is cut and distributed a bit better, but the protein isn't as impressive.