Eggettes — Restaurant in San Francisco

I've lived in the Bay for ~7 years now and this is the best egg puff place I've ever been to. It beats all the egg puff joints in Japantown (the corner store on Clement street, specifically) and down in the Millbrae area, hands down. Crisp on the outside, gooey on the inside - the hallmark of goofy, warm comfort Asian dessert. This also appears to be the hottest spot in town for high school kids, it was like hanging out at a football game under the bleachers there was so many of them fluttering around. Where I'm from - high schoolers drink, smoke, and talk trash when congregating in large groups...apparently Bay Area high schoolers are a different breed - quietly nibbling on their egg tarts and texting the person standing next to them while sheepishly eyeing one another from across the room before leaving in exotic cars whose monthly payments may be as much as my SOMA rent. The shop also contained an odd, affable 40-year-old man crouched in the corner spending what appeared to be at least $80 worth of crumpled bills in attempts to win a stuffed animal (some kind of dopey-looking dancing goat with a pink tounge and ear-to-ear smile) from the scoop arcade machine brightly beaming and chirping with each play. I couldn't figure out if the poor guy didn't know where the local Walmart is located, or if it was actually the shop owner in disguise, passing time while the kiddies spent their family inheritance on egg tarts and boba tea. Either way - my visit to this remote hole-in-the wall, suburban dessert palace was extremely entertaining and had better people watching than the Vegas airport. To top it off, the polite and dapper young man working the counter changed his gloves every single time he took an order as to not risk smearing any of the germs the children may have brought inside over the egg tarts. All in all this place is a 10/10 - good times and exceptional egg puffs. I will definitely be coming back the next time I embark on a voyage out to...

I love this place! They opened up the shop again and you can dine in now. Drink🧋recommendation! Get the malt milk tea. It’s basically HK milk tea but the I think it’s better. It’s smoother in taste and it’s the perfect sugar level. You just have to order the drink and not worry about the ice or sugar level :)

HK street food recommendations: Curry Fish Balls - the sauce is great but it can be a bit salty if you’re not used to it.

Rice Rolls!!! My personal favorite because of the sauces, you can eat the fish balls with it and it’s delicious and usually how it’s done in HK. Beware if you’re allergic to peanuts 🥜!!!

Siu Mai - this is the microwaveable one that you can get in the store but it’s very much the same kind you’d get in HK. Again, eat with the rice roll sauces.

All three of these are stables in HK street food. Mix the three of them together or enjoy separately.

Last but not least, their Eggettes! We like the original but their chocolate is tasty too 😋 it’s crunchy even when cold and their core is soft and fluffy like how it should be! The flavor is great, and the sugar level...

It can be hard to find 肠粉 (rice rolls) in the US. This is the Hong Kong version, which are rolled up with peanut, sesame and soy sauce on top. It was really good, and definitely exciting to find in a boba place.

Curry fish balls were really tasty. Had a very authentic curry flavor.

Lady at the counter was very warm and friendly, patient with explaining different menu items.

The almond flavored drinks taste really good. It’s not like almond milk where it’s meant to just have a neutral flavor and be a milk substitute. Here the almond flavor is celebrated in the drink, and the natural sweetness of almond comes out very nicely. If you like almond, I highly recommend trying one of these drinks.

They also comped us free imitation fin soup. I grew up not eating pork and am usually not a fan of pork (there’s some in the soup broth), but it was...