Queen Bakery

Don’t do it folks. The Beef Noodle Stew was tasty for a reason, I found a multiple legged fiend in my meal and it wasn’t small. It was well camouflaged because I ate half my meal before I noticed it. Totally grossed out! This joint should have negative stars but you can’t post a comment unless you select a rating.

Always a fan of Chinese bakeries, I stopped in looking for a pork bun but discovered so much more.
They have juicy little dumplings ($ 1.50 for 6) made fresh in house that serve as the perfect snack while waiting for one of their noodle soups or banh mi around the corner.
The noodle soups are amazing. For roughly $ 5, you get 2 lbs of soup. I’m a big fan of the fish ball and wonton. The fishballs are almost fluffy and the wontons are plump and juicy.
They throw in some vegetables as well, so it’s not all carbs and sodium. Definitely the most satisfying $ 5 meal I’ve had.

Their bread is all fresh & I like how Queens Bakery also have a menu for soup noodles and other cooked good like fried dumplings and rice. I always come here for the plain soup wonton which is $ 5. The wonton is made with pork and shrimp and the soup there is also vegetables along with the plain soup base. It may be a small bakery but the service is good and the food is good!

Try their pineapple buns! It’s huge with generous amount of topping and heavenly when it’s warm and just coming out of the oven. Char siu buns are some of the better ones I have tried; they are huge and fresh with lots of filling and sauce. I have only been there in the mornings and the place is always dim and sometimes can get easily filled up with early risers. Employees are efficient so waiting time isn’t really a problem. They have breakfast and during my visits there, a lot of people opted for wontons, noodles, and so on. They look really good and I would go back to give them a try.

strongly recommended the dumplings! yummyyy and very traditional ! I tried many places but this bakery’s dumplings are the best !~!!

All you need is 5 $ and you’ll get yourself a bowl of wonton noodle soup. It taste like home. Like when your mom made you lunch when you got back from school. The noodles was perfect, wasn’t soggy or crispy, just right. As for the wontons, they were big and plump. They serve you a big amount and good quality, unlike other places in Chinatown. But yeah, if you’re really hungry order a wonton noodle soup and it will fill you up nicely. (By the way they throw in some veggies too!)

The homies in Chinatown sure know how to keep their secrets. It’s a good thing I have the bottomless belly and big ears and a network of foodies in the know for scouting out their secrets. Queens Bakery is one of those bakeries that have a hidden menu and either you know it or you are bereft. At lunch this tiny spot that has cramped seating for 10 transforms into a lunch spot featuring wonton, dumpling and fishball soups that are the bomb. But this is no fast food joint, waits for the lunch soups here can be 10 minutes and up. though being elbow to elbow with your neighbor will have you eating your lunch fast. The chef takes his time, to cook his soups with love. It shows in the tasty homemade dumplings, in the irregularly shaped fish balls, in his tasty broth generously topped with crunchy vegetables. Nothing is over $ 5 for lunch. And when lunch is over, lunch is over. The chef cooks a certain amount of lunch meals for the day and that’s it. So don’t come here at 4 expecting your wonton noodles. The Man has already retired for the day.
The pastries here rock too. For some reason, they are a notch better than your average Chinatown pastries. The Malay cake I bought, $ 3 for a pack, was moist and had a thin ayer of cream that was divine. The Portuguese sponge cake, eggy and airy. I haven’t tried them all yet but plan to try some of the sweet breads and the steamed buns… something tells me this chef who cooks his soups with such love will pour the same attention into his buns. Oh yum…

Friend I was meeting for a LES food crawl reviewed this place earlier for it’s cha siu bao, so I had to come here and see for myself. She’s not elite so I was anticipating I’d have to educate her on the awesomeness that is Mei Lei Wah’s top bao. Anyhow, true to her word the bao had a lot of meat: good meat to bun ratio. It’s equally as fatty as Mei Lei Wah’s but I had a small piece of cartilage in my bao. The real negative thing is that it was room temperature. I’d pay the 5 cents more for Mei Lei Wah for the bao.

Not a huge fan of their bread, but their chao shao bao (BBQ bun), which is what this ⁴⁄₅ star is sitting on, is really good compared to a lot of places. There’s ample filling and the breading isn’t too thick. Cheap breakfast? I’m down.

I usually stop by here for their great lunch items. Not only do they sell the usual buns, tarts, pastries, and beverages but they also have rice and noodles.
Majority of their menu is priced around $ 4.50 or $ 5 and you get a good decent amount of food with meat and vegetables. I always get their noodle soup because it’s so satisfying. They make their fish balls in-​house and you can definitely taste the difference in quality and texture. Their wonton is great also, filled with meat fillings and shrimp with a thin layer of wonton skin. My favorite is the wonton and fishball noodle soup which has 3 fishballs and 3 wontons along with 3 small stalks of «you choi» aka a type of Chinese cabbage and lets not forget the noodles for just $ 4.50. You can’t really find this anywhere else for cheap.
It’s a small place with tight areas for seating but they do have 3 tables and if you’re alone, it’s not a bad spot to have a quick lunch. The staffs are quick and nice.

While the sign is huge, the store itself is pretty tiny.
I like to stop by this little place for some steamed pork buns whenever I’m in the area. Their stuff is super cheap and satisfying.

This tiny, hole in-​the-​wall bakery may just have the best di-​bau (steamed buns with roast pork, quail eggs, Chinese sausage and some other stuff) in Chinatown. The filling is fresh and not covered over with sauce as is done in some other bakeries) and the flavor is the best I’ve tried and I have tried many. It is a bakery that is easy to miss. It is located on the right hand side of the street when walking on Mott Street from Grand Street towards Broome Street. The coffee here is pretty average, the bakery selection is limited but they do serve rice plates and soups that are very Cantonese style (pork intestine over rice, fish ball soup, a soup with the rest of the fish, etc) if you are into that sort of food (I’m not :-).
So five stars for their Big Bun and a I don’t know for the rest of the menu!

This is one of my favorite Chinese bakeries in Chinatown. Its conveniently located across the street from my facial place and just around the corner from my go-​to waxing spa.
The pastries are delicious and cheap and I’m a big fan of their milk tea cos it reminds me of home. And for those in the know (namely the regulars) this place serves noodles in the back. I’ve had their beef brisket noodles and have been pleasantly surprised.
I’m planning to try the wonton noodles next time.

In my quest to sample every Chinese bakery in NYC (I know, I plan on being here for a while…) somehow this one escaped my attention despite having walked right by it at least half a dozen times. I was actually on my way to see my #1 for pork buns, Manna House, when I decided to do a back to back comparison.
Man, is it cramped in here! As for other less meaty, fattening baked goods, they are really lacking on the variety but I really only came for one thing. And they’re off…
Manna House remains reigning champion but Queen Bakery has officially replaced Tai Pan as #2 on my favorite pork bun list (don’t worry TaiPan, no one else has those delicious scallion buns of yours yet so I’ll still keep seeing you on the side). I’m such a whore.

I love this small place sells bread, noodles. They bake bread everyday– very fresh! per my hubby– it is the best pork bun. I like their plain sweet bread and some has sweet custard inside. I tried their noodle for the first time the other day — not recommend it. The name is ‘queen bakery’- just stay with bread. =)
One con is the servers English is very limited. It is good for my Chinese practice!

I stopped into Queen Bakery today since it looked newly opened.
It’s a small place, only enough room to seat a handful of people. The left side wall is all pastries. Not a huge variety, as mentioned, it’s not a huge space. They had a selection of the standard pastries and hot pork buns. I was drawn to an unlabeled roll that that I was told was filled with black sesame. The woman was very eager to serve me the pastry and said it was really good, so I went with it.
Glad I did because it was amazing! Sweet and flavorful. Hard to describe really, but well worth the 75 cents.
Queen also serves up coffee, tea, and variety of boba drinks. Didn’t see anything out of the ordinary here — except for the chandelier hanging from the ceiling. This place is unique and I like it.