New Town Bakery & Restaurant
Vancouver, Canada
The read// why locals go
New Town Bakery & Restaurant has held 148 East Pender Street in Vancouver's Chinatown for decades, as bakery counter and sit-down restaurant both. The Chinese and Filipino baked goods are what built the reputation — award-winning apple tarts and steamed siopao buns filled with barbecue pork or chicken — but the dining room serves proper meals alongside them. It is cheap, unfussy and thoroughly of its neighbourhood, the sort of place where the pastry case and the lunch trade have coexisted for generations. The Richmond branch has closed; the Chinatown room remains the original and the main one, still trading on the block where it started.
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East Pender Street 148 — Vancouver
The read// why locals go
New Town Bakery & Restaurant has held 148 East Pender Street in Vancouver's Chinatown for decades, as bakery counter and sit-down restaurant both. The Chinese and Filipino baked goods are what built the reputation — award-winning apple tarts and steamed siopao buns filled with barbecue pork or chicken — but the dining room serves proper meals alongside them. It is cheap, unfussy and thoroughly of its neighbourhood, the sort of place where the pastry case and the lunch trade have coexisted for generations. The Richmond branch has closed; the Chinatown room remains the original and the main one, still trading on the block where it started.