Maxim’s Restaurant

Having just moved into the neighbourhood this was my first trip to Maxim’s Restaurant. I had discovered the delights of the bakery a few days ago. I arrived at 1.00pm, right in the middle of a busy Sunday lunch service and had to wait just 5 mins for a table. The English menu appeared moments later. I ordered the shredded pork and spicy vegetables with vermicelli and a HK style milk team. The tea reminded me very much of the chai I grew up with and was delicious. The food was delicious (I needed some hot sauce), plentiful, and crucially not at all greasy. The menu is an amazing read and I am definitely going to be exploring it further — the breakfast options for sure. I must admit to smiling at seeing Horlicks and Ovaltine on the beverages list — the result of the British influence on HK. Just to wrap up the service was very friendly and one of the many reasons I will be back!

I have been coming to Maxim’s since I was a young kid amd til his day I still love this place. Service is always fast and friendly. They have great breakfast, lunch and dinner specials. They have an extensive menu at very reasonable prices. Thry recently increased prices but it is stikk a good value. This is one of my favourite hk style cafes. If you’re in the area I definitely recommned trying it out.

My favourite HK style café. The food here is like comfort food to me. Some items that I enjoy are:
1. baked seafood with rice
2. baked pork chop with rice
3. shredded chicken spaghetti with cream sauce
Sometimes the baked rices can be a hit and miss because the rice can be overcooked and become really hard, but when it is cooked properly, it is a real treat. The spaghetti is also great, and I actually prefer HK style spaghetti over Italian spaghetti. Most items, including the ones I mentioned, will cost you under $ 10.
Overall, I would recommend this place if you are looking for a HK style café, if you are in Chinatown, or if you are looking for affordable and satisfying eats.

We’ve always stop by here when we travel to Vacouver BC. The bakeries are average and mostly fresh… except during hot weather where there are flies everywhere… but that goes for all bakeries. We love sweets!
Just recent trips we parked in front of Maxim on Keefer St. (06÷26÷15) around noon time, someone broke into our SUV and stole our Gopro hero 4 silver and all its accessories including our memory disk that contain videos of our children singing in the bathtub.
Pretty much this experience have ruined our thoughts on safety within this neighborhood and in Vancouver, BC in general.
Stolen gopro hero 4 silver serial number C3131125384123
If you happen to stumble upon this camera with its precious memory card in tack, please contact the local police or through my contacts please.

Consistent quality, friendly service, great price, good portions, and clean. I’ve been coming here for over a decade and am rarely disappointed.
Good HK style cafes are hard to come by in Vancouver/​Richmond/​Burnaby nowadays.

Came for a late lunch while roaming around in china town. Its located upstairs just above the maxim bakery; it’s quite easy to find. It’s a Hong Kong-​nese resturant.
The service is not the best. After we sat down, no one acknowledged us until 15 minutes later after we were tired of waiting and called a waitress over. Not to mention when the waitress served our food she sort of slammed the plate in front of me and just left.
Nevertheless, we came here for food, so the food I will talk about.
We ordered a beef dish w/​rice and broccoli; the beef had a weird taste to it.
The shrimp and bbq pork with fried rice noodle lacked taste; I had to season it with a bunch of salt and pepper for it to taste a little bit less lackluster. The Hong Kong style tea, which came with the dishes for free, also lacked flavor. However, I have to say that the seafood conger was quite good. If you run out of places for food in china town, I don’t recommend getting the rice or noodle dishes here, but I’m sure there are far better restaurants around the area.

Typical HKstyle café, most days it’s quieter than Big Boss, but both can be busy at lunchtime in chinatown.
Different though, maybe going up to the 2^nd floor, this feels more spacious, and more booth seating.
Pricing as expected, not too cheap or expensive; think their breakfast specials & menu in general is similar to Big boss, same owners.
Bakery on main level.
Curry beef brisket, flat noodles w/​beef/​sprouts, french toast w/​kaya in the middle is what i usually get, normal portions.
service is ok at best, i may be a bit generous now come to think of it, of all the times I asked for napkins, etc. haha

One of the trusty bakeries in Chinatown with an attaching restaurant that serves some HK café-​style food. I haven’t come here in a long time, haven’t climbed that flight of stairs and waited for a table in at least a year, if not more, and it is still what I remember it to be. When it comes to what Cantonese people eat for breakfast, or what I was made to believe, this would be my first choice. Looking at the plastic stand showing the specials, they haven’t changed since the turn of the century, and longer. A + B = $ 6.25 or something cheap like that, yeah sure the price has gone up over the years, but it’s a damn good deal, a hot drink (usually HK milk tea to start), a dinner roll (substitute that with a pineapple bun, ask for the butter!), eggs with a sausage (at least it ain’t some no name beef weiner!), and some pickled vegetables, pork, and vermicelli (which can be substituted, but this is my staple breakfast dish). This is quite a bit of food when you think about it, and when you see it, but it goes down great.
Maxim, the bakery has been in Chinatown forever, and abit longer, and they always seem to deliver in their small upstairs restaurant. Depending on what time you go, this place is packed, with the usual local suspects. People buying their Chinese Ming-​Pao newspaper, reading it up, while sipping on their HK style drinks, eating some white toast, or whatever dinner roll suits their fancy. The plates/​portions that are served here are pretty generous, and everything comes out piping hot. I come here for breakfast, but they also serve this breakfast special mentioned above at lunch if you ask, also they have lunch and dinner specials that are listed on the table. The regular menu is also under the glass table for each seat to see, and it is pretty extensive, from your rices, noodles, sandwichs, soups, and drinks they keep it coming.
After your done eating, you can take some of their buns home to mom, or take them home for yourself to relive what you just ate!

Okay, if you’re looking for the tenderloin district of Vancouver — this is it! Big time!
After a good trip to Granville Island, we drove into Chinatown for a late lunch. (Why? Wasn’t my choice and I wasn’t driving.)
I, however, picked Maxims. Why? Because it was the first restaurant that was actually clean looking.
Food was decent. Yang Chow Fried Rice (shrimp and lop xuang). Chicken Chow Mein (yes — we are ‘tourists’)
Affordably priced. Service efficient.
Not anyplace I’m interested in returning to.
About the area: For me, it’s sketchy. It’s definintely the down-​and-​out area and drug deals take place in the open. Was glad when we were driving away.
(Wasn’t too fond of seeing some dude push some other poor wheelchair bound dude into the middle of the street right into traffic and then unload him from his chair. Fortunately, a few folks quickly came to his rescue.)

Coming to Maxim’s is like going to any 24 hour «fast food» jawn in Hong Kong (in the middle of the night after a long nights of drinking).
We ordered their lunch special which came with a «pineapple bun», clam chowder, and for the main dish we had baked portugese chicken rice, and beef brisket thick rice noodle soup. Don’t expect the quality of food to be top notch, that’s why its Cantonese «diner» style. We added $ 1 for Hong Kong style «milk tea».
Soooo Hong Kong.

It’s a cute little bistro serving up Hong Kong Cantonese dishes above its own bakery. We had the Maxim Fried Noodle and Minced Beef Congee for lunch. Although the noodle was tasty, it lacks the crispiness as it was supposed to be. I asked the waitress if the noodle would be panfried on both sides, she said yes but it wasn’t when the dish was delivered.
The congee was flavourful but the beef was in small chunks, not minced as it’s called on the menu. Although the congee itself was thick but it was not creamy.