As their loyal fans immigrated to the US, Kee Wah opened bakeries in California. Their first foray east across the ocean popped up in Monterey Park, of course, then two other shops in San Gabriel and Rowland Heights expanded their Southern California options. More recently, Kee Wah's bakeries in the Bay Area, two smack in the middle of Milipitas and one in Dublin, have brought their famous tea cakes, bridal cakes, moon cakes and Hong-Kong-style cookies, tarts and buns to Northern California.

mid-autumn teacake

Like other Hong Kong-style bakeries, it's partly serve-yourself and partly a Western-style bakery where you point into the display case. Grab a tray and a set of tongs, and then help yourself to the buns and cookies. Their staff will assist you with their special pastries and cakes. In the tradition of Asian service, complicated questions receive curt answers, so be sure to keep your expectations low if you're using this as an educational fieldtrip without a Mandarin or Cantonese speaker at your side.

Fortunately, it doesn't take too much to figure out what you want to eat in a glass-walled bakery, and their clearly written, English-language signs should offer all the guidance you need to avoid allergy-inducing walnuts or vegetarian-unfriendly pork fluff. Their walnut shortbread cookies will please the tamest eater, while their phoenix cookie with melon seeds, date seeds, sweet rice flour, and preserved bean curd should be interesting to the more adventurous.

Kee Wah Bakery

Map

1718 N. Milpitas Blvd.
Milpitas, CA‎ 95035
(408) 956-8999

386 Barber Lane
Milpitas, CA‎ 95035
(408) 383-9288

4288 Dublin Blvd. # 107
Dublin, CA‎ 94568
(925) 829-3939

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A Taste of Hong Kong: Kee Wah Bakery