Tai Pan Bakery

I can’t say much for service since I couldn’t understand them, but the baked goods were divine! Still dreaming of their red bean roll. Seriously, how do they make it so soft and rich and light all at the same time?

Tai Pan Bakery is solid but not exceptional.
We came only for the portugese egg tarts and they were about $ 1.75, I think? Nice tender pastry, and the filling isn’t overcooked, nor is it too loose. Not overly sweetened either. Pastry is a little thicker than I like but a very respectable po tut overall

A great stop for fresh baked affordable pastries. Its easily crowded and can be hectic and unorganized at times. There is a language barrier with many of the servers/​cashiers so speak slow, clear and be patient.
There isn’t a comfortable seating area so I’d recommend ordering to go. The majority of their bread pastries are great– soft, not overly sweet or heavy and under $ 2. But my absolute favorite is their Fresh Fruit Cake. If you’re lucky, they’ll have it in stock. Otherwise, you can put in for an order. Fluffy angel food cake layered with whipped cream and fresh fruits.

From their bubble tea that they make in the back to the scallion rolls, everything you get inside will fill your stomach. Sitting and watching the line move while enjoying a nice breakfast from their selection of pastries, chicken sandwiches, and sausage bagels of godliness!

Ask anyone in Chinatown, Tai pan makes the best cakes over Fay Da and any other bakery. They are professional and know what they’re doing.
I ordered a 13lb cake from them for my daughter’s red egg ginger party in 2014. I didn’t want a fondant cake and most of my family’s preference is the airy sponge cake with the perfectly hint of sweet whipped cream anyway. I Pinterest the design I wanted and they were willing to work with me and did the best they could. The cake turned out beautiful.
This time around, my siblings and I ordered 6 cakes for my dad’s 60^th. I worked with Benny who was absolutely wonderful. She maintained open communication throughout the time from when we placed our order to the day of the event to make sure they would deliver exactly what we wanted… Again cakes that were pretty like fondant but not fondant.
So thank you Benny, the head baker, and everyone who worked together on my dad’s cake. We loved it!!! r

I ran around all of Chinatown looking for a specific pastry. Not only did they have it, they had 3 different versions of it. Very clean and large, with seating. Right off canal street so it’s not that hard to find.
They have so many different kinds of egg tarts; egg white, papaya, green tea, large and minis. I was traveling back home to Virginia so I needed to stock up on goodies. They had the specialty pastries all the way in the back. Just grab a tray, liner and start piling up the baked goods. Once you’re done, go to the counter and someone will price and package it all for you. The prices were fairly reasonable also.
Definitely coming back to this location to try the different egg tarts.

This place located in Canal Street, apart from being a bakery, you can get tea and coffee and drinks. There are a few table where you can eat there.
Two things to remember, there is no bathroom here for the customers. The place does not accept credit card.
I purchased a Chocolate Swiss Roll, it was soft but rather bland. The Coconut Milk Bun was slight dry. The wheat bread was actually the better between the three.
I also tried their tea and coffee combo hot drink. This is a very popular drink in South East Asia, I know it sounds strange, but you can get it anywhere from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Mainland China, Taiwan… etc. Very disappointing, the place use Lipton tea bag, so there is no comparison to the real thing you get in South East Asia, where people use Ceylon tea from Sri Lanka.

It’s cheap and that is about as positive I can get about this place.
We were eating dinner in Chinatown and figured we would hit a Chinese bakery for dessert. Tai Pan came up with decent ratings, it looked clean and didn’t smell bad so I figured we would go in.
It looks like a normal bakery but it is complete chaos. The lines don’t mean anything, it is a total free for all.
We had:
Double Cheese Toast — greasy and the bread had an angel food cake consistency.
Walnut Napoleon — decent but greasy
Coconut Cream Bun — The bun was extraordinarily large and had an angel food cake consistency but no flavor. The cream was oily with too much butter flavoring.
Green Tea Sweetheart — a green tea and chocolate mousse — the hubby enjoyed it.
Green Tea tartlet — tasty but not great
Vanilla Cupcake — my daughter enjoyed
Strawberry Fruit Tart — so so, my daughter would only eat the fruit off the top.
All of these desserts came to a grand total of $ 14 (thank God, this place is cash only!!). If you are looking for a bargain you will find it here. If you are looking for quality, keep looking.

3.5 stars!
O-​M-​G! Best dried pork buns ever! And the cream inside was also divine.
Also, make sure that you get your proper change back if that is important to you because is everything is hectic in here (or at least it was when I came). You put your food on a tray and then they bag it for you, but there are people who are standing out of line which makes it a little bit crazy.
Good meat buns, but I must admit there selection of sweets is quite limited.

Da fuq?! I’m not sure why but I thought the green tea egg tart was grrrrossssss. I had such high hopes since I am generally a huge fan of anything matcha/​green tea flavoured, but this particular item just tasted off/​sour. perhaps some things aren’t meant to be toyed with?! i didn’t experience any rude or crappy service (however, it’s Chinatown, set your expectations accordingly folks) so I can’t pu pu on that, and as a whole it’s a well serviced bakery with a crap ton of options, but man that egg tart was disgusting!*
(* and i mean generally i’ll eat anything sweet /​dessert like, especially when i’m drunk, which i was, and i couldn’t get past a bite of this, which is pretty indicative of how weird the flavour was).

This place represents one of my childhood memories into the world of Chinese breads as Rockland County back then had none of that. It was always a treat when my parents would come back from the city and bring us some roast pork buns or the pineapple buns.
Overall, this place provides good quality baked goods. The service may be a bit rude and it can get crowded and confusing on how to order but it is still worth loading up on their carbs. They provide what a typical Chinatown bakery provides, including various cake slices, egg tarts, breads, buns and café drinks at relatively cheap prices. I have recently been a fan of purchasing their Portuguese egg tarts for potlucks and housewarmings because they are delicious bites of eggy heaven. Always a hit!

Representative of Chinese Bakery in Manhattan
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Solid Chinese bakery shop, my fav in mahanttan ctown. Rich variety of bakeries: breads, sandwiches and cakes at really fair prices (¹⁄₃ — ½ in price vs it’s Korean equivalent bakeries).
In addition, other two things make it standing out from other ctown bakeries.
1. special items: various flavors of egg tarts (papaya, green tea, classic, Ao Men flavored etc), mango/​coconut flavored sticky rice ball and moon cake (a must-​try in fall season).
2. Creativity: they keep offering new flavors/​kind. I recently tried the new «golden brick bread». It’s full of sweet milk aroma, and texture very soft, which goes perfectly with a cup of milk.
I kept coming back for my weekly breakfast and egg tart dessert. Strongly recommended if you looking for a good Chinese bakery to try out in ctown.

I came in here 2 hours before closing time looking for small birthday cake and they were all out. I know… terrible planning on my part. I asked the cashier if they have any cake left, she then checked with the manager/​owner, and they said they can make me a fresh cake for me if I can wait 30 mins. Heck yes!!! So I did some errands and the cake was ready in 30 mins!
6″ fresh fruit cake $ 16 — The cake itself was good, and the fruit was fresh, but there was too much cream. I find myself scraping cream as I dig for the cake and fruit. For this reason, I have to deduct 1 star.
Honestly, I don’t see myself coming back here again very often, mainly because there about 20 other similar bakeries along canal st. but I would stop by occasionally due to the low price at Tan Pan. Extra point to them for being so accommodating to my order on such short notice!

Tai Pan Bakery has two qualities that usually connote quality in an American establishment: it’s large and it’s new (at least relative to the other Chinese bakeries). As is probably clear, this system of judgment isn’t always applicable to Chinese places (often some of the best restaurants are the tiniest and oldest). Sadly, Tai Pan Bakery may have one of the biggest selections, but the quality just isn’t up to par. I stopped by here late at night, after Lung Moon Bakery had already sold out of egg tarts. I picked up two egg tarts, two coconut custard pineapple buns, one coconut cream bun, and a barbecue pork bun. A woman was quick to finish my order and English was fairly well spoken.
As many have mentioned, the selection here is incredible. They had pretty much everything that’s part of the Chinese bakery repertoire even at around 7pm, well beyond the time when smaller bakeries will be sold out. There are several types of egg tarts, including the original, the Portuguese, green tea, papaya, and even an egg white version which I had never seen before.
I got my bread to go for breakfast over the weekend. The next morning when I tried the coconut custard pineapple bun, the bread already seemed a little dried out/​stale. On the inside, the filling was completely missing the «custard» part of the coconut custard. Instead, I found myself chewing through unsurmountable strings of coconut shreds. Bite after bite, the coconut never ends! I was actually contemplating just eating the «pineapple» top and dumping the filling. The egg tart was fairly standard. The outside puff pastry is nice and flaky and the inside filling is creamy with a hint of egg. The coconut cream bun the next day after was actually hard. The bun was far too dried out — palatable only with the cream inside.
Overall, Tai Pan is good in a pinch if you need some bread late at night and other bakeries are closed or sold out, but the speed at which their bread dried out makes me a little suspicious about the freshness of their products. The egg tarts are good, but not worth the more expensive price compared to other bakeries.

This is my go to spot for Chinese bakery’s in Chinatown especially when it comes to the variety they have. They have great raisin bread loaf, hot dog crossaints, and Napoleon. My favorite has to be the Napoleon.
It has several layers. Top layer is a puff pastry with powdered sugar. The second layer is a walnut cake, puff pastry next layer, walnut cake, then another puff pastry. Each layer has cream on it. At $ 1.60, u can’t beat it.

Yay, a Chinese bakery. Is that what these places are called? I don’t know.
I wanted to try one of everything, but I wasn’t very hungry at the time.
Their display case has a huge selection, including various egg tarts, egg custard pie, dan tat, you know. I’ve only come across the regular egg tarts in the past, so I decided to get the green tea egg tart and passionfruit egg tart.
We went on our way, because it was pretty busy and loud in there. The spot is pretty big and has a few tables, but none were open.
They both taste great. After walking a bit, the green tea tart was looking a little beat up, but it tasted pretty good. It was sweet and I could definitely taste green tea.
I could go for a dan tat right now. Too bad they don’t accept cards.

Went there on a mad search for excellent Chinese Egg Custards… They had them… not only the original type but other types like Green Tea Egg custard.
So we decided to get both… Very disappointed. The taste of both types was bland and lacking flavor… Not the top choice for bakeries in Chinatown for me… Their location on Canal St makes it easy to get… but take a few steps more and get better tasting pastries at places like Lung Moon.

They are one of the busiest bakery in nyc chinatown. There has always been a crowd every time I have been there. But that is not going to stop me from visiting again =)
So what do I go there for? Egg tarts (traditional tarts as well as portuguese tarts), buns and chinese pastries (chicken pot pie!) and of course every year during the Chinese festival mid-​autumn, or moon festival, I have to get their snow skin mooncakes. I love snow skin moon cakes, made from glutinous rice powder and it’s not baked. They have many different varieties on offer and I must have the seasame, taro, coffee and durian.
One thing I noticed is their pastries etc are more expensive than other bakeries in the area. That is still ok to me, considering they are established, and business is still good nonetheless. There are a couple of sit down tables and a stand up area by the window for dine-​in. Those are always occupied with people. So either you have to go super early, or get super lucky and someone happened to be leaving the moment you walk in.
There is no ‘order’ to wait in line, so the lines are basically non-​existent. By that I mean they don’t necessarily go in a first-​come-​first-​serve order. Which is not the nicest ordering system. If you find yourself waiting a long time and others who came after you are being served first, try to call out the one of the servers to catch their attention.

One of the best little bakeries in Chinatown. They have a wide selection of different kinds of tarts including the egg custard tart (a Chinese staple!), as well fruit tarts consisting of chopped melons, strawberries and cantaloupe. They also offer pork buns which are also my favorite here, and of course Chinese style milk tea (Lai Cha). Definitely give this place a try, you won’t regret it.

Love this Hong Kong bakery! Even though the crowd in the store is insane, the food is very tasty! I used to come here all the time for their baked spaghetti with minced meat and their shark fin soup. So tasty! They are known for their egg tarts and I got all of the unique flavors that they had such as egg white, green tea, and papaya. The egg white tasted very similar to a regular egg tart but with a subtle difference in sweetness. The papaya was a little more sweeter but had a really nice fruity taste to it. The green tea had a matcha powder kinda taste to it so people who like less sweet/​more bitter desserts would probably prefer this flavor.
I think compared to other bakeries in Chinatown, the ladies that work here are relatively nicer. There will always be a crowd but the workers are very efficient and get customers what they want very quickly. Probably the most popular bakery in Chinatown and the positive aspects justify so!