Furama Cake and Desserts Garden

Extremely inexpensive and authentic Chinese delicacies. This place is definitely worth peeking your head into and buying a roll (or a dozen) if you’re on Spading Ave. Highly recommended.

dare i say, the best bakery in Toronto.
the quality and flavor of most of the treats here, is on a completely new level from any of the other bakeries Ive been to, in and around Toronto. all sorts of different treats and goodies here, which change sometimes on a seasonal basis.
the staff are super friendly and helpful.
this place is super clean, and leave the car at home, cause parking is a pain.

Saw a typical Toronto cockroach waltzing around on some of the buns in the middle aisle. For those who don’t care about that sort of thing, this place is fine. Egg tarts can be bizarrely oily at the bottom. Cash only.

Furama 富麗華餅店 is one of the established traditional Hong Kong bakeries that maintains a very casual atmosphere. It offers a great variety of popular buns and my favourites are the sausage buns, pineapple buns and deep fried curry beef buns. I also like to order a cup of hot Hong Kong milk tea to accompany my pastries. I would say that Furama’s quality is above average in Chinatown’s standard.

On my most recent visit got an egg tart — the tart/​shell was overly sweet (like shortbread). I’ve tried a variety of things here on different occasions, and have never been very impressed. Probably won’t be back.

Treats are pretty good and the price is too. One pastry will range from $.50-​$ ²⁄₃. I love seeing the old Chinese people just chatting away or even playing some Chinese chess. It makes the atmosphere nice.
Hmm. The tables are quite dirty though. The staff make no effort to clean them as they are greasy and have crumbs everywhere.
And the person that was checking out my mom’s food looked extremely annoyed at my mom and didn’t even crack a smile. But I guess that’s normal for Chinese/​Vietnamese people because I see that a lot. (hahah dw I’m viet).

I don’t look at reviews and rating before testing out a new place as I feel some Unilocalers take their contribution to help suggest places of interest a bit to the extreme. So, after eating a ham bun, bbq bun and cream filled bun, I images this place would have high rankings! I recommend this place ask think it produced fresh baked goods compared to the others I visited during my visit.

To go place. Ice coffees are good. Make sure you got ur buns fresh, period.
I love their sesame balls, and Grilled chicken buns.
Better for coming early in the morning, they may prepare stuff fresher z

Absolutely AMAZING, the price is perfect. The baked good are delicious and I find myself craving the food quite often. The prices are from $ 0.50-$ 3, you can get many pastries for less than $ 10. The chicken teriyaki in a bun is my favourite and it’s $ 2. I always get like 3, one is filling enough though.

I walked into this bakery last night, and it smelled like vomit really bad. I tried to at least look at the pastries. but the smell was so awful, I eventually had to leave.
No, I didn’t buy anything. But I can’t imagine what their kitchen must be like if their shop smells so gross.

Pricier than the other bakeries in chinatown, but with more focus on desserts and pastries. Where you might get 2 for a dollar at Ding Dong or Mashion, here you can expect to pay up to $ 1.20 per pastry, though they are bigger. I like the crème horns and butterfly pastries, though!

Very reasonable pastries. My favourites come with pie (meat pie, curry pie, Apple pie…) because it is crispy outside moist inside! I especially recommend you to try the meat pie! Will be no tax pay more than 6 pastries.

Learned from yesterday, if you go past 4pm you risk smelling chemical cleaning products and not seeing their food and price labels.
Went again today but at 1:45pm, on a very cold day (–3c before wind chilld) and round-​trip back to the office. Let the food settle in the red box at room temperature for 30−60mins before multiple tasting.
My verdict without microwaving or heating the buns below:
Great pineapple buns and ham/​cheese buns. Taste is above average.
The curry beef or bbq pork puff pastries (Cha Siu So) are not nearly as good though (far too less filling). Curry beef filling tastes better but can use more filling.
Butter roll is average. Haven’t tried their other buns yet.
3.5 out of 5 rating for the buns I’ve tried only…
This place is definitely better than Mashion Bakery nearby. I bought identical items yesterday night from both places and everything at Furama was better, although more expensive.

This is my usual stop when I am in Toronto. Nothing like getting a dozen Chinese pastries for less than $ 15. Some items are hit and miss here but overall it brings me memories when I stop in and see the trays and tongs and all the bulk pastries waiting to be picked. Coming here always reminds me the times my family would stop here during our many visits to Toronto and notably the visit to Chinatown.
The items range from $ 0.80 to $ 1.20 per pice. You pick the items on a try and the clerk somehow calculates it all very quickly while stuffing them into a box. The service can be awful here as they barely greet you.
Love seeing the groups of old men who gather at the tables in the early morning and chat away.

«The fancy Chinese Bakery» on Spadina.
Your order will either come in a white cardboard box, or a paper bag.
Another thing to consider, is that it is more expensive than the others.
However! They have some unique more European-​style pastries here!
Cream puffs, french horns, fruit cups, etc.
Also, they have «kaya» buns! I say «kaya» because they taste suspiciously like ordinary custard buns… They taste great though!

most unfriendly waitresses in all toronto.
never go there past 4pm. it is dirty, smells only like cleaning products, and waitresses already decided that their day was over. so you are not wellcome, especially if you do not speak Chinese.
pastries are much better elsewhere by the way. simply, avoid and go to another one. there are now several much better and friendlier ones around.

This place is a fixture in Chinatown and has a decent reputation. The sweets are good with quick service and a nice little sit down spot to eat your desserts. Also some of the regulars go here for a Chinese style breakfast which reminds me of bacon and eggs, except the eggs are in a noodle soup. Stand around for a little while with your tray and a spot to sit usually opens up. A favourite is their sugar donuts, in plain view, begging you to grab a few, as you come in the front door. A gigantic picture window lets in the light and hubbub from Spadina and was famously sprayed with bullets late one night adding to the street cred. ‘Yay! I’m a fan’ applies wholeheartedly to Furama.

Not the cheapest place in Chinatown — but the baked goods are decent. Although, we were fortunate enough to catch a fresh batch of egg tarts still warm to the touch, it was a bit too wet and the crust was soggy. It’s your typical setup in Toronto Chinatown — walk around with a tray and tongs and pick up your own damned pastries and pay afterwards. Personally — I like Ding Dong more just cuz it’s so friggin’ cheap — but Furama just seems cleaner.
But I think I like place because of the ‘café’/seating area. It full of old timers sipping milk tea and sitting there for hours because they bought an $ 0.80 pastry. Oh — so many of my youthful years were spend in places like this when my dad understood ‘look after the kids’ as ‘hang out with your chef friends, curse, smoke cigarettes, drink milk tea/​coffee, eat egg tarts and have little Johnson within an earshot’.
Whenever I am at Furama, I try to make eye contact with one of the kids bored out of their mind as dad/​grandpa is nursing a drink and a bun. I try to telepathically communicate with them… «Stay strong, kid — one day, you’ll have money to eat all the egg tarts and cake you want, like me… and ya, we’ll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun, too.»

Was searching for a Chinese bakery that sold a quality «Mixed Fruit Cake», which is basically white sponge cake with whipped cream and pieces of different kinds of fresh fruit inside and on top. (Melon, strawberries, pineapple, mango, mandarin oranges, etc)
At Furama you need to call 2 hours in advance and the cake will be ready and waiting for you.
The small cake is $ 15, and the larger 2 lb cake is $ 20.
Considering the freshness and high quality this is a great deal.
They also added the Happy Birthday chocolate disc and some candles at no charge nice touch!
While there I picked up an egg tart and a BBQ pork bun, both were very tasty and the crust on the egg tart was light and tender, not the frozen type that you get at cheaper places.
I will definitely be back.

This is not a bad place to pick up a snack and or a quick lunch.
We opted for the latter today and for $ 8,70 we got
— a small tuna bun
— a small ham/​cheese bun
— a big ham/​cheese bun
— 2 chicken teriyaki buns
— 1 almond cookie
The tuna bun was great. I wish I had gotten the bigger size.
I didn’t like the ham/​cheese bun, however my husband enjoyed his’.
The chicken teriyaki bun was OK. I actually didn’t eat the bun, but just the chicken.
Again, this bun was well received by my better half.
And then there is the almond cookie.
It is ginormous.
It still sitting on my desk and looking at me as I am writing this.
I think I am intimidated. LOL