Yu King Bakery

Poor customer service. I was just standing there for a good 3 minutes in front of this woman and she wouldn’t acknowledge me at all. A woman next to me just shouted she needed hot water for her medication and she finally attended to her. I guess you need to shout and scream to get served. Not my cup of tea.

What more do I need to put. 5 stars baby. Cheap, tasty, life changing, mind blowing, mouth watering, thirst quenching food and drinks.

It’s not fancy and you most likely won’t get a seat because elderly patrons board them (typical Chinese bakery style). But I still really like this place because the limited dim sum is good enough without much of a line and less hassle than going to a restaurant. The winners are really the egg custard tarts, roast pork buns (baked or steamed), sticky rice with sausage boiled egg wrapped in lotus leaves, and the rice noodles (cheurng fun). Getting the pain rice noodles is cheaper than getting ones with filling, and you get more. Rice noodles also come with sweetened soy sauce.
The dim sum typically comes out freshly made around 8:30am on weekdays with better selection. Buns come out earlier.

I came here for a cup of milk tea and I left in horror. There was a small screw in my cup. When I approached the cashier with it, she was horrified. She started to make me another cup. However, I shook my head and grabbed a box drink from the fridge. I am still shuddering with fear.

Don’t order the Congee. Long lines on major holidays and days between Christmas and New Year. The line used to go outside the door. The line is not as long now, on non major holiday weekends, because other restaurants opened in the neighborhood and took away some customers. Almost always opened every day. You have to share table with others. Some customers didn’t know that. Great food, dim sum. Good inexpensive coffee. If the items you wanted are sold out, you can order them made fresh, before 12pm, such as dried shrimp rice noodle roll. You have to stand and wait 10 minutes, and remind the cashier after 10 minutes if the food didn’t come out yet. Lately, haven’t seen fresh shrimp har gow. Dim Sum costs about 30% less than those from a restaurant.

Just went to pick up some chinese pastries to satisfy my sweet tooth. They raised the price which wasnt the problem. Everyone who worked there was rude and unhappy. One of the ladies just walked away from me when i asked whats left. The second lady just didnt care.
I remember when they first opened, they were smiling and nice. Then they turned into zombies which was my first or second review which had 3 stars. Now they are worse. Not happy, rude, and made me not even want to step foot in there anymore.
The pastries are still cheap, but i feel unsatisfied eating these buns because they remind me of those gloomy faces. Sadly i will not come back anytime soon. Maybe ill stop by in the future, but if this doesnt change i wont ever come back!

We sat down and had breakfast one morning. We told the staff the soy sauce may have gone bad because there was a vinegary smell. The staff went to the manager/​staff. He was rude and practically said we were lying. OMG… is that how they treat customers. We were only trying to make sure that no one would get food poisoning if the soy sauce turned sour. Last time I will walk into this place!

I have a thing for iced coffee, especially iced brews with condensed milk and simple syrup, YUM. Yu King also dim sum, like a lot of chinese bakeries do and I’m a dim sum snob (Oh Toronto!).
Fresh goodies dim sum wise, I’ve been here a handful of times and the service is attentive and friendly and fresh. I love!

This small unassuming bakery houses some delicious Dim Sum that people line up for early mornings on the weekends. It’s encouraging to the local Caucasian population standing in line also spreading the culture of our food. The Dim Sum is excellent for a tiny bakery, and the service is speedy and consistent. The food is prepared fresh in the kitchen and you can peak in while you are in line, the kitchen looks exceedingly clean and organized. If you have little time to wait for a table Yu King is a great options for breakfast in the mornings in Brooklyn. The price is excellent and I’ve been able to feed a family of 4 with a $ 12 order.

I really enjoy Yu King’s steamed buns (roast pork and Chinese sausage are my favorites) & dim sum. This place is more of a dim sum place rather than a bakery in my opinion. They make really good Cantonese styled morning food, up to restaurant quality. This place is extremely affordable and tasty!
I’m surprised I haven’t written a review of this place since I’ve been here a few times. If you’re around the area, this place is good for a quick, no fuss breakfast/​brunch.

Yu King Bakery is just a few steps away from my house. My aunt used to work here preparing the dim sum and dumplings, that’s how my parents are close with those that work here.
Very small Chinese bakery with fresh and delicious dim sum! In my opinion, it’s one of the few bakeries that has actually good dim sum. Lines form quickly at the bakery especially on the weekend and sometimes the line can extend out the door!
I would not recommend eating at the bakery, since it is small and eating the dim sum at home is probably more relaxing. Definitely a bakery worth checking out if you want good dim sum for breakfast!

My family & I get dim sum from here all the time. This place makes the best dim sum… we stopped going to the dim sum restaurants near 8^th ave because nothing compares to this place. They make the best beef/​shrimp rice noodles. The rice noodles are fresh, soft & amazing. You will usually see a line that extends out the door so the food is always fresh as the turnover is high. They make excellent egg custard tarts (the perfect flakiness) & soft bao’s as well. The ladies who work the counter don’t really know english that well so my tip to those who don’t know chinese is to just point :).

Small Chinese bakery with fresh dimsum. Go on the weekend in the morning and you can see them churning the dough while you wait in line to order. The baked goods is displayed on the left and the seating is to the right. Four or five wooden tables seat about four each, although most people take their dim sum to go.
You shout to the ladies in Cantonese what you want, and they displace the dim sum off the ceramic white plate into a small Styrofoam box. After you finish your order, they total your bill. Cash only like most Chinese stores and grocers.
Most of the dim sum here is better than other bakeries in the Bensonhurst area. We usually order their gow choy buns, haw chuen, beef balls with cilantro, and steamed pork buns. Their consistency is better than most dim sum places, in that the gow choy buns are usually crisp on the outside with a generous portion of shrimp and gow chow, their beef balls are usually large (2inches in diameter) and their pork buns are fresh. Of course we have had the contrary but as their overall performance remains the same, we will be back.

First of all, this bakery is the typical Chinese bakery and not meant to satisfy the Americans’ taste.
It’s a quite small place to dine in. Lines are quite long during breakfast hour. If you dine in, you usually see elders there, or with their grandchildren. But don’t let this ruin the image of this bakery!
I wouldn’t regard «Double Dragon Balls» (its name in Chinese) a bakery even tho it sells baked goods, pastries, and drinks. I think its main selling point is their dimsum/​breakfast items. This is one of the best places to eat real Cantonese dimsum/​breakfast. Yes, most off them are oily & greasy (fried stuff), but come on, this is the Chinese taste! It’s the same thing in Chinese big restaurants.
Their chow mai fun (fried rice noodle) is great, fresh, has «wok hey», but yeah its greasy to most of you. Congee is good, too, very «mien», soft & thick. Then their steam dimsum, taro dumpling, cheung fun, i won’t say their shiu mai’s very good (lots of meat, i feel like just eating meat balls lol).
Baked goods are okay. Just get their dimsum, fried noodles, congee! Too greasy to you? Then forget it. Other ‘CBC’ loves it tho!

A family friend got dimsum to go from here and she said that their vegetarian rice noodle roll? (ha mei cheurn fun) was really popular. I tried it and I have to hand it to them, it was pretty good (the other rice noodle rolls were good too). People in the kitchen were constantly making them so the box went directly from the kitchen and into my to-​go bag! Their other dimsum dishes were somewhat decent.
I usually come here when I crave dimsum and when I’m too lazy to travel or have no one to go dimsuming with lol.

I was helping out a friend in the area and realized I needed some grub after a few hours, so during a break I walked down to 86 street under the elevated train tracks to see what I could find. I lived in this area in the 80’s when it was still mostly Italian. Now Chinese businesses have insinuated themselves into the area, and one of them is the bakery/​restaurant Yu King Bakery.
Yu King is a fairly standard looking bakery. Walk in and to the left is the counter with various baked goods in a glass display. To the right are a few tables with seats, I can’t imagine more than twelve people sitting comfortably inside however. Behind the cash register are racks of dry and steam heaters that keep various buns and Dim Sum dishes warm. They also have congee as well.
I ordered the chive patties (gao choi), steamed ribs and a coconut bun. The chive patties were okay, not that great. In general, I like the vegetables inside the doughy outer shell to be a bit crisp to the teeth and sharp on the tongue, but this was rather mushy without much flavor. The steamed ribs were the tastiest part, with the perfect seasoning (and truth be told, it’s what saved this review from being just 2 stars). The meat was tender and came right off the bone.
Now the coconut bun, which is a baked bun with a coconut filling. This is one of my favorite buns ever, right up there with a well made roast pork bun, so it really makes me a sad bunny when I have one and it’s not so good. This bun was big, but it didn’t have white, granulated sugar on top like I prefer. Inside? Instead of coconut bits with a crystal sugar, it was a mushy, yellow cream that I have seen some other bakeries use instead. This was not my type of coconut bun, and the taste was too over-​buttery to the point where I couldn’t even taste the coconut. Blech.
The service was prompt and efficient as they usually are in such bakeries. I could see into the kitchen and the staff was hard at work. It is rather impressive to see dumplings being made at rapid speed.
I won’t say that I would not go back to Yu King, but aside from the ribs, I’d most likely make different selections if I did go again.