Saint Germain Bakery

Mango cake is our all time favourite here, its expensive but worth it. I love most of the buns here, its fresh and delicious.

Delicious cakes and buns. Their buns are delicious and cakes are worth to try. However the price on cakes are bit expensive though. I bought Tiramisu ($ 3.50), White Choco Strawberry cake ($ 3.99) and Cinnamon Stick ($ 1.35) and they were delicious.
I wanted to give 4 stars but their cakes are so expensive. I could’ve bought cheaper cakes at Maxim as the ones here are small and expensive.

Bought 3 kinds of baked goods at this location. Curry beef bun, tuna bun and raisins twist. I can only say you would want to eat this if you are dying from starvation. The bun is dry and greasy all around. The beef in the curry beef bun was not even chewable. It’s all the non digestible side cuts that doesn’t even qualify as beef at McDonalds. They should call it curry sauce bun with cow giblets…

I love Chinese bakeries: the smell, the variety, the price and the quality. As you come up the escalators, you get a small whiff of freshly baked bread and boy does that make your mouth water. My original plan was to walk around metro to find something new to eat but I just couldn’t resist. This does happen to me quite often now that I think about it…
There are so many options, it’s always hard to choose what to get but today I felt like having the Curry Beef Bun and the BBQ pork pastry. Man I love it when things hit the spot :)
The Curry beef bun is evenly filled with high quality beef and spicy curry. The bun fresh, warm and fluffy. The BBQ pork pastry was flaky and hot. I left with the 2 items before I started to eat them so I wouldn’t be tempted to buy more.
They also have a great selection of desserts. Although they are on the pricier side, it is totally worth the treat.
Tip: 6+ no tax on the buns

The egg tarts were unbelievably flakey!!! Yess!!!
The line ups were fast and organized.

I would give five stars if they had triple cheese toast available all day! These are too die for! — speaking from a cheese lover point of view. :) I also love getting white chocolate strawberry cakes for my late night craving. The only down side is that they run out cheese toast quite often… Wish they make more of these so I don’t have to drive all the way to Richmond to get them. Customer service is good too, although they are extremely busy they are attentive.

I agree with the previous posts about their service. Their service is awful. The staff there are all serving with snobby attitude because they think their bakery is well-​known. The high ratings are for their cakes but not their service.

Mango pudding cake is a must have from this place but STAY AWAY from the Apple tart. I bought two of these apple tarts, but into one and threw it out. The taste was just disgusting and I’m really just writing this review because I don’t want others to waste their own money and have them experience the same thing. I’ll be safe next time and get the mango pudding cake

I’ve been few times and my experience here is just okay.
I bought corn mayo bun but the design of the bun was really stupid. It’s like a donut shape with small hole in the middle, Corn & mayo just started to fall through that hole as I just opened a bag.
it was also really greasy and I think they use margarine for this product. It’s so greasy, bun was super shiny and super slimy. I could see all the excess oil in a package it was in (clear ziploc type bag). Margarine was all over the bun and I think mayo was mixed with margarine as well. So it kind of tasted weird.
I liked sausage bun and other sweets I’ve bought from here over the years. Their service is very rushing even no one else is there with me.

Hubby loves their chicken pies so I continue to go and just need to let that slide. So grab a number or don’t, you will get served either way. Also, I found out after inquiring that you can get a 10% card that never expires once you purchase a cake $ 25 or over. I have seen the 15% cards also, but not sure how that person got that.
I usually go to Oakridge but was at Metrotown this time. The chicken pies are great. The coffee swirl is quite drying. The number being called was 85 and I grabbed a number and it was 83. Had to chuckle.

I dunno what it is. While Asians make delicious food, including traditional chinese buns, for me, Asians simply do not make good deserts and bread in my opinion unless they’re copying authentic western deserts and not adding their own spin to the deserts.
While these Asian bakeries may have great looking presentations, the texture, the body, the taste, the quality in their deserts, all seem to be lame. It’s simply too light. I’d rather have jello and some coolwhip or whipping cream and some fruit on the side instead of these light deserts.
As such, all the asian deserts I have ever tasted were very light and often fruity. I ordered a chestnut cake. I was wondering, «where are the chestnuts»? There was hardly any chestnuts in the cake and you could tell the cake was very light and unsatisfying. It was mostly light cream.
I guess it’s a matter of «protocol» instead of tradition to serve light deserts after a large meal because of just that, it’s light.
Being Italian, I am used to and expect the desert to be somewhat rich, not light. Light deserts do not sit well with me, yet for whatever reason, Asians love their light deserts. And that’s ok; however, if you have a european name like SGB, I will be overly critical because your bakery name appears misleading to me.

This bakery locates in the middle of metrotown area, where it sits next to superstore. Can imagine tons of people walking by and also lining up for their baked goods. I like their buns, pies and cakes, especially chicken pie, Tuna Bun and Wife cake.
The chicken pie is the big half rounded shaped baked pie with chicken filling inside. The thing that I liked is that they put leaned chicken instead of chicken with fat. This is much healthier to eat and showed their quality of work. Also, the cost is higher for the store too. This thing happens similarly to the BBQ pork bun. The meat is much leaner than other stores. The fact is that I don’t feel too guilty after eating the pie.
The tuna bun is a specialty food, as I don’t normally see this in other Asian bakery shops. Only a few will carry this item. But the thing is that it tastes delicious. When the bun came out, they will be gone quickly. The bun has a square shape, and it’s texture is flaky, and the tuna was mixed with their aioli sauce and herbs. That makes the bun very enjoyable to eat. Also, the bun is bigger than normal size. Will feel the weight afterwards!
The wife cake is fairly common in Asian bakery shop. And I will get one when I visit the place.
Also, check out their cake section. They make fantastic cake design — very modern style, colorful yet elegant overall. It is presentable to all aged groups.
Well, that is it for now, may share some more goodies next time.

I used to like their cakes & breads a lot. I know it’s a busy store But I still appreciate their service. but today I just experience a crappy & rude customer service in Metrotown. (I was lining up for so long but no one bothers to help me. Some elder lady even trying to take my spot in front of me …)
and after 10 mins I started to complain and I receive a cold face. so I left and I just decided I am not gonna waste my time and money anymore here.
((at the end I got my yummy mango cake at Maxim’s bakery.))

Saint Germain is a Hong Kong style Bakery located inside of Aberdeen Centre, adjacent to H Mart. It sells a variety of bread, cakes, and chinese desserts. The display is particularly enticing, as everything looks delicious!
I was craving something salty, so I went with the cheese and sausage bun. The exterior shell was crusted with cheddar cheese. The texture of the bread was soft (not as soft as some other asian bakeries though) and had an almost gummy like texture. The bread itself was subtly sweet. The sausage was just an ordinary hotdog, pretty average/​standard in asian bread. Overall, this bun wasn’t very good, average at best. I don’t think I would eat this again.
Egg tarts are always a hot item at any chinese bakery. These ones didn’t disappoint, the texture shell was flaky and crispy. The egg filling itself was silky and the perfect median between sweet and salty. Overall average for a chinese bakery but still good, nonetheless.
I also got a coconut pastry. The entire pastry is made out of coconut flakes, which lends an amazing aroma to the entire pastry. The dough is soft, sweet, and fragrant. Basically a coconut BOMB in your mouth. Fellow coconut lovers, you will die when you try this!
Overall, Saint Germain is a pretty generic asian bakery, but bakes up some great cakes and buns!

I’d rate the mango cake and hazelnut, chocolate and coffee rolls a 5!
BUT. Other than that I’d rate it in the negatives. Why? Because the customer service is terrible! I came by to buy a mango cake for my dad’s birthday and was super excited to purchase it. I stood there for 10 minutes repeatedly saying excuse me to the ladies working there trying to get some service, but they stood there chatting. After about 7 minutes an Asian man came up from behind me and one of the ladies went to help him, while he ordered in their language.
I finally got angry enough and asked one of the ladies «Are you going to continue your chat or are you going to serve me?» She finally helped me, but was super cold…
I don’t want to pull up the race card or anything, but I could tell they didn’t want anything to do with me.
I’m sorry Saint Germain Bakery, but you just lost a long time customer.

I like their products, just not this location; right in the middle of the mall, weekends the aisles are as busy as heck, so can’t really enjoy the aromas here, all gone up through the ceiling ;(
Plus, you’ve got to fight off the Superstore shoppers too that are coming/​leaving into the mall.
It’s small, though not as insanely small as Oakridge’s but it’s decent, some stuff will run out sooner.
Don’t think their egg tarts are anywhere close to Lido or Newtown.

Do not try «Orange Chocolate Mousse Cake»
Very heavy taste.
All my family got sick after ate this.
Price doesn’t mach the quality.
Don’t waste your money.

When it comes to Hong Kong style bakeries in town, Saint Germain may not be one of the cheapest, but it is definitely on the list of Vancouver’s best in its category. Their locations are usually very conveniently located, in some kind of high-​volume shopping centre (Metrotown/​Oakridge/​Aberdeen Centre). This one is right across from the Superstore. Perfect for a bakery fix after grocery shopping or when I get hungry from scoping the mall.
SG offers an excellent selection of sweet and savoury: breads, buns, pastries, cookies, birthday cakes, sponge cake rolls, you name it. Where they really differentiate themselves from the run-​of-​the-​mill is in the details.
Workmanship of the the cakes, pastries, and especially the buns, is much finer than its competitors. The buns are always properly shaped, sized and do not look like they were slapped together like the cheaper bakeries. A look at the pineapple buns can be very telltale. The SG pineapple toppings are rather uniformly centred across the board, unlike a lot of other bakeries, where the toppings often flop to one side. That alone speaks to the care taken during the production stage.
Fillings are ample and of good quality compared to many other bakeries I have tried to date. This is always where bakeries chintz out on. SG’s cocktail (coconut) buns have noticeably more coconut in the butter/​milk filling compared to many other places, with the filling occupying ²⁄₃ of the bun, sometimes a bit more. So good! I have had way too many cocktail buns half-​filled or even less. SG actually uses curried beef brisket chunks for their curry beef bun vs. some mystery ground meat that practically all other bakeries use. The few times I had their apple strudel/​pastry, it was loaded with actual apple chunks vs. filler sauce. Love it also because nothing is ever hyper-​sweetened here.
SG is not the cheapest, but for the tiny premium you pay over the typical crappy to mediocre HK style bakery, Saint Germain is still an insane bargain. The vast majority of their single items are under the $ 2 mark, with pastries as the exception but even those are nothing over $ 4. At those prices, I ‘d pick up coffee treats from Saint Germain over any other place in a heartbeat.

Saint Germain’s located in a very convenient location for your Chinese bakery needs. After you pick up your groceries for the week, stop here to grab your desserts.
They have patries, buns, macarons (I believe you need to pre-​order) and birthday cakes. The service can range from excellent to angry-​broken English lady though. Visit at your own risk.
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A great alternative to Kam Do Bakery in Richmond for sweetheart/​wife cakes or what Saint Germain Bakery call it as marriage cakes. They look like a huge cookie, but they’re flaky on the outside with a soft centre filled with wintermelon, almond paste, and sesame. They’re not too sweet and the flavours from the five spice powder (fennel seeds, star anise, licorice root and cloves) adds to a light floral flavour.
In addition, Saint Germain Bakery sells yummy savoury and sweet pastries, buns, cookies and macarons.