New Town Bakery is one of the must-visit places in Vancouver’s Chinatown according to CNN. They have won multiple awards for their baked goods. New Town Bakery has been around since the 1980s serving Filipino and Chinese pastries. Their original location is in Chinatown, but they also have locations in Surrey and Richmond.
The front of the restaurant is the bakery section and this area is very busy. They even have a numbering system just to keep things organized when people order.
There’s a lot of options but most people order the egg tarts, steamed buns, pineapple buns, and their apple tarts.
At the back of the restaurant is the dining area where you can order full meals instead of the baked goods. Mags and I came here for lunch and ordered off their lunch menu.
Sui Mai ($4.25) comes with 4 pieces and consists of pork and shrimp. There’s a lot more pork than shrimp in these dumplings. It was ok, but not the best.
Iced Milk Tea ($1 extra with purchase of set meal) pretty standard taste.
Soy-Fried Flat Rice Noodles with Beef ($7.75) was a good portion size for lunch but it was super oily. The beef was tender and had a good flavour. You can probably share this among 2 people if you wanted to.
Curry Fish ball with Squid ($7.50) was a bit disgusting. The squid was not fresh and was very chewy. I struggled for a while trying to chew through the squid. The onions, peppers and carrots tasted fresh. The fish balls was very bouncy and tasted ok. The sauce was a bit gelatinous and a tad salty.
The entire meal was disgusting. This was everything that was leftover. I was so disappointed.
Overall, nothing was good about this lunch. Stay away from the meals and stick with the baked pastries.
We Rate New Town Bakery:
Address:
148 East Pender Street Vancouver BC
Website:
http://newtownbakery.ca/
9 Comments
It’s a restaurant at the back of a bakery. What do you expect? Five-star cuisine?
it is in Chinatown after all. It’s not exactly a fine dining place, and they don’t market themselves to have good quality food.
Couldn’t disagree more. It’s comfort food and it more than achieves its goal every time I go. Not fine dining, which they don’t claim to be
Shame on you to label food as “disgusting” just because it doesn’t agree with your palate! You have the responsibility as a food blogger to critique fairly and respectfully. You have opportunities to influence people, its too bad you use your platform unfairly. Get off your high horse, this is a comfort food place, not Le Crocodile.
Comfort food indeed. My granddaughter is a third generation Newtown fan. If you were expecting a “Michelin” type restaurant why even bother eating there.
It’s New Town BAKERY. It’s famous for the baked goods, which you didn’t even bother to review.
Honestly, what were you expecting? Did you seriously go to a Chinese bakery in Chinatown expecting a five star HK style cafe meal? Calling the food here disgusting is so disrespectful. You “foodies” should stick to doing media sponsored reviews where everything seems to hit a 10/10 because god forbid you offend the owners who invited you.
We have always strived to be honest in our reviews and will never waver from it. If you have read our other reviews and follow us on social media, we are always transparent and fair.
This article was written based on our visit back in 2014. As 6 years have passed, I am sure they have improved. Honest feedback is what keeps restaurants to continually improving to keep customers coming back. We have tried their baked good a lot of times, but we thought some people may be curious how the other dishes taste in comparison to other HK style cafes as it’s a pretty competitive market.
We love hole in the wall restaurants more than anything as that’s what we love to write about. At some point, we will be revisiting to give a better overall look at New Town Bakery.
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Always honest and fair! lol okay!!!!
If I am going to be ‘honest’ I think you aren’t much of a ‘writer’. These linked reviews are really not thorough and lack any kind of context or analysis. I really wish you would be fair.