Lily Mai

I really like their steamed buns, dim sum, steamed rice boxes, and Chinese pastry. I had 1 bad experience with their baked breads as they were as fragrant or soft as other bakeries but I come here for more traditional chinese pastries and foods.

Marwan

Pretty good Chinese bakery right off grand street subway station. Scallion, bacon hot dog bun was tasty. Their iced honey milk tea is excellent. We also got dry shrimp noodles and a pork bun. Overall solid experience. 30 minute time limit to eat their food, not sure how strictly that’s enforced.

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Vanessa Phillips

I really love stopping by lucky king when I want fresh pineapple buns and lemon tea. I lived in Hong Kong last summer and the foods here remind me of being there. There are always older Chinese people hanging out inside as well as other customers but I've never been there when it was over crowded or super busy. I'm always helped as soon as I'm ready to order. The prices are also super reasonable.

John Wu

Old school bakery/coffee shop. Uncomfortable seating in dimly lit eating area. Native language a must. Tasty offerings. Good turnover insures quality items. Many unique entrees.

Joseph Wu

The selection of pastries is excellent. But it goes downhill from there. The shop is crowded and noisy. There's not enough space to customers, and many customers are using the place to socialize and thus make it difficult to find a table. The worst part is that there are no restrooms.

Linda M

The pork floss bun was pretty good. The pineapple bun was also good. Buns are not labeled so you need to brush up on your Chinese or point. Many of the baked goods are not in the glass case but behind the server, on the cooling racks.

Surfer Rosa

Many of the bakeries in Chinatown close by 6pm weekdays. I am lucky I found Lucky King. I have been stopping in on my way to the train station after work, usually after 6pm. I pick-up some bao or dim sum. Staff will make suggestions to let you know similar items that are available. Comfort food. Generally friendly service.

Sommaya H

Great bakery with all the staple desserts such as sesame ball or sponge cake. Just a few cents more expensive than the surrounding bakeries but not a big deal.

Mark LoGiurato

Nice options on baked goods and dim sum!

Would try somewhere else. $5.50 for a small milk tea, pineapple bun, and hot dog bun. Milk tea was alright, but by the end, pretty sugary and disappointing. Pineapple bun was pretty dry. Pretty large space inside with tables and chairs. I think there was a homeless guy lingering near the door? Pretty wide variety of food. Just as another reviewer pointed out, quite a lot of their pastries are not in the display cases, but behind on the heating trays.

Harlem Dawgs

I've been here about a handful of times and most of those times have been without incident. Yes, the fried sesame balls have been a bit greasy but passable but I can usually count on getting at least a few items I really like. However, the last time I was there it literally nearly killed me. I'm not speaking in hyperbole here. One of the things I've grown accustomed to but don't too much like when I'm in Chinatown is that often I'll go into an establishment and wait to be waited on and someone will come after me. That is visibly Chinese or Asian and they'll take that person's order before mine. This is what happened on my last visit here. Now that man placed his order and like I said I understand it may be just a cultural bias so I shake that off. It's one of those when in Rome situations. However, when I order my food and repeat myself three times and you allow somebody that's come in after me to place my order for me in a language, I don't speak. Well on its face. It seems like it's helpful except for the fact that I ordered one item and he clearly ordered something different which I'm allergic to. So I hadn't eaten in about 7 hours. I was very hungry. I paid for food that apparently, the person behind the counter decided I was not qualified to order for myself. Here's the thing you may be thinking. Well maybe she just couldn't understand you or maybe he was just trying to be helpful. Two things can be true at once and there still be quite a lot of liability involved in killing someone with a food allergy. If there's a language barrier issue, which there hasn't been before but clearly there was some issue this time; then order forms can be used in order to alleviate this issue. It's far better than doing this with the wrong person and having them sue you. Furthermore, put yourself in my place. How would you like it if somebody that you didn't know presumed to order food for you and the business that you are doing business with decides that their order on your behalf supersedes your own. Because the person that took it upon themselves to order for you looks like the person that is taking your order and speaks a common language that you don't. Believe you, me. If the result ended up and you almost going into anaphylactic shock; you would have an issue with it. Now according to Google maps I'm in the top 10% of Asian grocery store reviewers so I'm not a neophyte wandering into Chinatown for the first time. Anyway you slice it, this was not acceptable and could have been deadly.

Most disgusting owner the male guy, he sneezing front the food using his finger to squeeze it, then he didn’t even bother to wash hands, awful, also there is a homeless guy at door to harass customers as well, be careful

L Lu

Eat at your own risk. Roaches pics of 1 and they grabbed the other before I was able to snap a Pic of the second one. Also, they kept the tray of contaninated products out still for sale instead of throwing it out.

Jon

Bought dim sum from here to go. Shumai was one of the worst I've had; super dry meat and shrimp. Fried Shrimp roll was decent but a bit cold. Shrimp dumpling was raw with starch clumps inside