Sheng Kee Bakery #3 - San Mateo — Restaurant in San Mateo

This is a review for Sheng Kee's wedding cake service.

I grew up eating Chinese sponge strawberry shortcake (it is a CORE MEMORY ok), so when it came to our wedding cake I wanted this type of cake specifically.

First we contacted Kee Wah, who claimed their delivery radius was 30 miles. No problem, our venue was 29 miles from their location. Kee Wah REFUSED to deliver for us, claiming that 29 miles is greater than 30 miles -surprised Pikachu face-. Okay you can't reason with the unreasonable, so we reached out to Sheng Kee over their website.

They sent us a catalog of designs and prices. We chose the biggest, a four-tier cake that can serve 250 guests. We paid extra for fresh strawberries, which was fine and I expected it. I've been to other Asian weddings where the couple cheaped out and used red icing in between each layer to "mimic" berries. Wouldn't be me.

Sheng Kee sent us the phone number of the baker, who was also the delivery courier. We called him several days in advance to confirm our order.

The baker arrived with an assistant to the venue on time and assembled each layer on site. He also piped the decorative flowers on site, which honestly was pretty cool to watch. He also helped us put our cake topper. Our guests loved the cake, taking photos of it and eating it!

Price for the cake was a great value. I would recommend to all ABC couples getting married in...

Asian bakery that have both Asian pastries like a variety flavors of moon cake (this place is popular during Moon festival and Chinese New Years), baked BBQ pork buns, taro flavored breads with colorful European style celebration cakes.

Most of the baked goods - buns, moon cakes, breads are individually wrapped in cellophane bags. So you pick what you want and pay at the register.

Nothing is sugar sweet. Cakes are soft airy and spongy filled with mango mousse, tiramisu, strawberry. If you are a chocoholic don't come here, the cakes (full, half, individual sized or custom) and all their baked goods are geared to the Asian palette.

They also serve Peet's from thermos bottles (don't expect a freshly made latte, just...

A pretty neat Sheng Kee location, even though they're not as well stocked as the others. The cakes displayed didn't look very fresh. And I didn't see a lot of the other breads usually seen at the other locations.

I bought a number of pastries. The sliced Vanilla Sponge Roll, with buttercream, was a rare find. Usually I only see cake rolls with whipped cream sold at Sheng Kee bakeries. Other pastries were average. The Ham & Mushroom Bun had too much ketchup in it. And the Pork Sung Corn Roll was a little too salty. I think the kitchen staff could up their baking skills.

The store front staff was courteous, though. So overall, a pretty good experience...