Maxim’s Bakery

I’ve been coming here lately for apple tarts. I used to get them at New Town Bakery until a co-​worker introduced me to the ones here. Both are good for different reasons.
The ones here eat more like a turnover/​strudel. The pastry skin is thin with a slightly sweet apple filling. The ones at New Town eat more like a pie. There is a thicker crust with a sweeter, chunkier filling.
Another reason I come here is because they also carry some of my favorites — curry beef bun, pineapple custard bun and BBQ pork pineapple bun. I always vow to try something new, but always leave with my trusty trio.
If you order 6 or more, no GST. And if you don’t need a box for your pastries and are okay with them individually wrapped in a bag, make sure you let them know. The box is an extra $ 0.50.

Picked up some buns (curry beef, and the sausage bun) and their butter half-​loaf. Delicious and inexpensive. The staff are efficient and seem knowledgeable about their product.

I like the buns and moon cake here. They have the mini buns so you get to try assorted. As well, the service is not bad. I mean not super exceptional. Standard buy 6 no tax. The place can be quite busy. But they do make everything fresh daily. Yes couple times a day. So, you don’t have to come super early to get what you want. My favorite is their curry bun. Their chicken bun and sausage bun is not bad. The sausage bun is my sister favorite but I prefer bun with some kind of sauce. The curry beef bun is not too spicy and it does have quite a bit of meat. I usually get the mini ones. Not the one big full size one.
I do enjoy coming here.

Delicious mooncake.
We went there last week and were looking for mooncake. They had a nice selection of different mooncake flavors including some fake mooncake that will show you how it is inside.
Also it’s the first time I see mooncake with 4 eggs in it!

BUNS
BBQ pork buns
Curried beef buns
Chicken buns
Can’t wait to get home and pop these into the oven, get then nice & hot and dip them in some hot mustard.

Bakery at Maxims is a hit and/​or miss type of situation. Personally, I feel there’s nothing unique in terms of taste and quality VS. other bakeries but it’s the childhood memories as well as the hop back and forth between this and other bakeries within Chinatown that keeps me as a customer.
Pricing is what you would expect of it, a majority of the items being under $ 5. In terms of variety, its all the same; hot dog buns, tuna buns, egg tarts, mini spring rolls, mini deep fried dumplings, chocolate cake, mango cake, and so on.
Employees here have always been fast, efficient, and prompt. Friendlyness of service is comparable to fast food, well I guess it technically is fast food since there aren’t even chairs to sit and eat your bakery with in the store. Although, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing either.
Recently, I stepped out of the usual bakery madness and ordered a cake over the phone for a friends birthday. I went for a mango mousse cake with a serving size of 10 – 15 people. The woman over the phone initially greeted me in Chinese, but had pretty good English once she switched over. She was informative and quick with the order which was great! The cake came out to about $ 42, $ 45 including tax.
Mango mousse cake was yummy. It had a whip cream type of layer which wasn’t too sweet but neither bland. A sponge cake layer and a mango mousse layer which was velvety smooth. It was topped with various fruits as well such as melon, strawberries, cherry, grapes, dragon fruit, cantaloupe, and kiwi. My only complaint is that the strawberry was quite hard and difficult to chew as well as slice with a spoon.
I still have yet to try their restaurant that’s beside the store on the 2^nd level.

I used to come here all the time with my family when I was younger. Nowadays i still make the occasional drop in for some great bakery items or go upstairs for a quick lunch.
You can get a great breakfast combo with 2 eggs, sausage or ham, a bakery bun, coffee or tea, and add a noodle dish, all for $ 7!
Lunch or Deluxe combos come with a soup, bakery bun, main entrée and coffee or tea for $ 8.95.
Food here is consistent and service is quick.
I recommend checking this place out

I like this place, Maxim is a big name in Hong Kong, I am not sure if there is any connection. I took a walk in Chinatown in Vancouver, and passed a few places which serves this Hong Kong style bakery products, pastries and cakes. This one looks clean. I bought some sausage buns and Portuguese Egg Custard. They were gorgeous. Well worth stopping by if you are in the neighborhood.

BBQ buns. Spring rolls. Curry beef or chicken buns. Yummy

I’ve been coming here almost every single time i go to canada. It’s the best when you eat it fresh from the bakery. My favorites: mini coconut bun and the raisin twist

Can’t believe i almost forgot about this place, as the other ones on Main st. seem to be easier to get to. Now it’s still hard to get a spot sometimes simply they don’t offer much seating unless you’re Goldstone.
Easy to forget they have a seating section if one only goes to the bakery downstairs so that’s the cool part. While i waited, i browsed the display case and told them what I wanted once i got seating.
The coconut cream half-​loaf is my favourite here.
Ordered the flat noodles w/​beef and sprouts, flavourful with enough onions. Comes w/​the cold half tea/​coffee drink, one of the best in terms of coffee flavour.
Parking usually sucks here in chinatown but just be patient.

This place has been around forever. Been coming here since the early 90s.
The restaurant is located on the 2^nd floor on top of maxim bakery.
My fav order: breakfast A + B. u can basically change the egg dish to anything. I typically go with the chicken omelette and a ham macaroni in soup. Comes with drink and a bakery bun which can also be changed to whatever u like. All for $ 6something.
This place is worth a try!

Bought about $ 40 plus of their product this trip.
A little disappointed on their regular individual wrapped chicken egg cake which was dry. Probably not a popular item from older inventory and not fresh enough.
Also the thousand year eggs in the pi dan so has so little in it perhaps less than a quarter of one egg.
In fact, my friend did a special order of a dozen Pi Dan So ($ 2.40?) from Anna’s cake House on Broadway. I bought also some from Kam Do in Richmond. By comparison, Anna’s are the best of all but you pay for the quality at twice as much as Maxime which gives you only tiny bit of egg inside and more other filling. Kam do comes second in taste which is also cheaper but maintains consistent of quality.
Conclusion is that each bakery store has their own specialties. One needs to know where to get the best of their selections. And depends on how much you have in your own pocket and expect to spend for them. It is always right of the saying: you get what you pay for.

When I make a trip to Van city I always have to come here for my fill of Coconut Buns.

This is the Chinatown Vancouver branch of this Chinese bakery chain. Like all of the bakeries in Chinatown, this place is cheap. I find the offerings here resemble the ones at The Boss Bakery down the street with similiar pricing to boot.
I always seem to make a stop here whenever I am in Chinatown. On this occasion, I wanted to try something not of the typical Chinese buns variety. Decided to give the banana mochi and mooncake with lotus and coconut a try.
The banana mochi is a good deal. I think it was $ 1, it may have been a little less. Mochi is cut into three pieces. It definitely tasted like banana, but I found it to be too grainy. I much prefer the green tea mochi nearby at Sun Fresh which is what I am more used to.
However, the mooncake was a surprise. Since it was after the Moon Festival, they were selling all mooncakes for 50 percent off. They have the typical varieties, but the lotus and coconut version caught my eye because I have not seen that mix before. It turned out to be pretty good. The coconut is a different flavor variety. It is a bit sweeter. A pretty good deal at a little over $ 3 for one after the discount.
All in all, I have not come across a bad Chinese bakery in Vancouver and Maxim’s continues that streak. Some good Chinese bakery finds found here.

Every time I’m in Vancouver, I must stop by this bakery to pick up Coconut buns (gai mee bao.) Maxim’s are the best… with the most coconut filling of any other. (Even some of the best NY Chinatown and Flushing NY bakeries can’t compete with Maxim’s coconut buns!) Last year, I happened to be in town during the Chinese New Year celebration and bought some Moon Cakes. To my surprise, these were not your typical — dry, bland and sandy — moon cakes. The box was lovely and the cakes were moist and absolutely delicious! I took several back with me, as gifts… and the recipients were very happy.

Got some great buns here. They had a great selection of different types. We got a red bean bun, ham and egg bun, egg bun, squash pastry, and a fruit bun. Each were about $.90 a bun and delicious.

I always do love coming here. This place always brings me back to my younger years, back where my dad would take me from time to time. I was always order the same thing, spaghetti tomato sauce with ham (what kid doesn’t like spaghetti?!). I still love getting that dish today and it taste just like how I remember it to be.
The restaurant is smaller and it is up a flight of stairs (yes, you get a workout before a meal). Downstairs is the bakery that I still have yet to try! lol Keep in mind, this is a Chinese restaurant so you might see some things that are a little disturbing such as the booths… Lets just say the place looks exactly the same 20 years ago, but just a little dirtier now. I guess you can’t expect much when the food is so cheap, in large quantities, and good.
Also, I got to mention, they do have a semi open kitchen and it was here that I had my first culinary inspiration. Many years later, here I am, working in the culinary industry.

I’m not sure if my trip even deserves 2 stars to start off but the Maxim name in my mind means quality — left, right and centre… it’s one of my most popular bakeries around the world!
… so I was already disgusted by the non-​curried, curried meatballs that I bought from the Chinatown festival so I wanted to discover Maxim’s to enjoy some buttery filling chinese Bun.
unfortunately… the buns looked small, stale, and old. The bread was not soft and moist… and I was just not impressed.
. sigh. just so hard to find consistency sometimes. I saw the stairs to go upstairs. I would’ve jumped up and down, with delight because I found another Chinese diner to enjoy my morning breakfasts with HK style tea… but no thanks :(

Amongst the bevy of Chinatown bakeries, I oft favour New Town. Something about their pineapple coconut buns stops me from going elsewhere. This being said, New Town doesn’t make cakes. Enter Maxim’s.
They’re not the best cakes in town but they’re reasonably fresh and consistently nice. Their whipped cream icing is never too sweet but frothy enough to guarantee some finger-​licking fun (haha). Regardless of season, each cake is sure to come decorated with the standard melon balls, which seem almost compulsory at this shop, and kiwi fruit. Can’t wait til summer when they start making mango cakes again! Until then, the chestnut flavoured sponge will keep me mildly satisfied.