AA Bakery & Cafe — Restaurant in San Francisco

Bait & Switch Will never buy anything from them again.

Was a regular customer of their dim sum, tarts and other baked good. It was always good. Have always like it, as they were no different from the other bakeries in chinatown.

Today, i needed a cake at the last minute. Found a beautiful green tea mousse cake topped with strawberries, kiwi and mango. The lady at the counter took the cake I selected and said she'll put a birthday card on top of it.

I said sure thinking she'll put a card with the cake and box it.

She disappeared.

I waited and waited. When she reappear, the fruit top changed. I asked her why, and she said they wanted to make it more beautiful. She was full of it, but I didn't have time to argue over it.

Now that we have the cake out of the box, I realized that she replace the mango for canned pears. Very disappointed.

And the green tea mousse did not taste like tea nor had texture of mousse. Not going to waste my time or breath bringing back for exchange as I fully expect them to be very argumentative.

But definitely not coming back again. ...

Be aware! If they give your buns in a box, check the contents. I was told $13 for supposed to be $10.

So I opened it in front of her, checked it immediately, and found she put two more buns than I ordered.

I asked her to remove those two extra buns, but she refused and said that it's already in the box, you can't have a box, the total is $13, etc. Umm, what?

After I insisted, she finally removed some buns from the box, bring the calculator, and told me $11.50. I opened the box and found the extra bun still in it, so told her again to remove it, and she started yelling at me again and saying no box. Come again!?

I don't care about the box from the beginning, I didn't ask for it. So she finally put everything in plastic bags and grabbed my $7 change and gave me back the $10 bill. Phew~!

I normally buy 2 to 3 buns, but I didn't see many people and volunteered to buy more buns today so that they can close the store sooner.

It's my mistake. I'll go back to buy 2 to...

I usually get egg tarts at this location, along with a few breads (mostly bo lo bun - pineapple bread). I prefer the plain ones, however the red bean and taro paste ones are pretty good. Lightly sweet, not too sweet.

The pineapple crust on the buns is not usually crispy or crunchy here, more on the soft, fluffy side. (Try GMK across the street for a more crunchy topping.)

Sometimes there are day-old mystery bags (2 random breads) available. Not sure on exact price per bag, but the mystery is always fun for us to try.

Cakes and slices look fun, but I'm shopping from a request list of very specific items of egg tarts and various breads.

I recently saw milk tarts (whitish custard) with egg tarts (yellow custard) in the same tray. If you are eating the egg tarts at home, try to gently toast them to warm them and crisp up t the edges.

The ladies behind the counter speak English, Cantonese, and Mandarin. They're fair and generally willing to remind others that...