Fay Da Bakery

I like the breads and coffee very much.
Actually buying things there everyday.
Very fresh stuffs and cheap price.
The staffs there can speak Chinese even Cantonese. ;-)))

Fay Da doesn’t look as nice as the neighboring Tai Pan bakery and doesn’t have the same selections, but it’s usually less crowded and has a few more seating spots. I have a huge sweet tooth so I like popping into both for my sugar fix. The prices at Fay Da are so cheap that it’s worth checking out the offerings — I got a bread and a medium honey green tea for about $ 3!
As with most places in Chinatown, this bakery is CASH ONLY.

This is a really great bakery to go when in the area or near one of it’s other locations. The prices are relatively cheap and the food is all very good. I would definitely recommend getting one of the steamed buns which are served nice and warm.

Decenet snacks at cheap prices. Nothing amazing but good when hungry and on a budget. Clean.

On a second visit to Chinatown during my week in Manhattan, bf had to get his cocktail bun as usual. He said it was really good and inhaled the thing. I went with a traditional egg tart which was everything that I expected… a flaky crust with sweet custard filling. At Fay Da (translating to fat dozen), they have a nice assortment of breads, buns and Chinese cakes. Good place to stop by for a sweet snack.

Great selection of Chinese buns, mixing new recipes with the standard classics. The place is surprisingly clean for the area it is located in. Good place to grab some delicious and portable breakfast/​lunch/​coffee.

Nothing really exceptional about this place. I usually pick up sweet breads like the butter rolls and chestnut bread that is around $ 2.50 to $ 3.50 and is already wrapped in plastic. I do like the taro rick balls they have. I wish they serve Milo.

Gone here a few times after Dim Sum brunch. The assortment is okay and some of the pastries are really good. However, by early afternoon, many breads and pastries have gone a bit stale. Also, it’s more expensive than surrounding bakeries. There’s never really a line here when I go, so I’m guessing it’s not exactly that popular. Plus, the servers don’t really speak English or Mandarin.

One of great bubble teas in the neighbor. Try the green tea tapioca (cold).

Fay Da: the bakery that introduced me to the delicious glories of the Chinese Custard tart.
They are excellent. Try one, it’s only $ 1. You’ll be glad you did.
Their mini –cheesecakes are really good too.
The bakery itself is unpretentious but not at all unpleasant. There are a few café tables, and service is efficient.

Fay Da Bakery offers good quality pastries at reasonable prices. Some of their pastries are a hit or miss, so it depends on which one you choose.
I like their curry pastry, cheesecakes, and hot dog bun. Their large cakes are wonderful too, especially the mousse one. However, I prefer Tai Pan’s pastries more than Fay Da’s. But whenever I do not feel like waiting in a massive line, and fighting with other customers to get my pastries at Tai Pan, I come here.

Dirty, greasy (with a lard subtaste), cheap. One of the staff sneezed into my pastry after I picked it up. The sausage in the hot dog bun had gristle in it. The seating was a bench along the wall with two chairs _​on_​it, no tables.
I might be spoiled by a much higher quality standard of bakeries in Brooklyn Chinatown, but this place does not deserve a four-​star rating.

Pastry/​cake shops in Chinatown is Starbucks in Mid-​town. I think there is one every block and everyone has their favorite. We go here for the quick snacks and cakes in the back. I find it is consistently fresh as it is busy and resupplying the bins. The coconut bread is a favorite as is the Cheesecake which is light and fluffy and sponge cake. They don’t make very good Mooncakes though. They have the lychee drink there with agar which I really like and don’t find in other shops.
The service is about what you expect from a Chinatown establishment. They all look tired, no smiles, but cordial.

Do yourself a favor and avoid the Mott Street location. Personally, any time I am around Mott and Canal, I have panic attacks.
Now, don’t be an obvious «foreigner» and get any of the spongey spongey cakes. You will hate them and you will give this place the bad rating it doesn’t quite deserve. Def do not get a tiramisu here, you should already know that. The tarts, mousses, and «cheesecakes» are all a little bootleg; mousse sits atop a layer of [you guessed it] sponge cake, cheesecake is floury [not necessarily a bad thing, but defs not traditional]. Everything is less sweet than the average American bakery, including, most so called French and Italian bakeries in the city. The savory warm pies are a good snack, maybe even lunch. Egg tarts is something of a specialty too.
Nothing hits the spot like an Iced Milk Tea. If you’re into bubble tea and aren’t all that finicky about the ratio of tea vs artificial flavor powder, get it here for a $ 1 cheaper than your bougie café, you prob won’t know the difference.
My favorite pastry here is the Napoleon, once a month, I buy a whole rectangle for $ 10. I bring it home and eat it with my family in a circle with chopsticks. I’m not kidding, we have no forks at home.

New favorite bakery in Chinatown!
The staff here are always up an working to keep the bun trays filled, and the tea is shockingly delicious-​always fresh fruit and good quality ingredients. I’ve found myself saying «Wow, this is some good ass tea.» on a few occasions, and I’m tough to please when it comes to all things tea related. And I always HAVE to have a Tapioca Flan for the bus ride back to Philly. This is probably the only bakery out of any Chinatown in the Northeast where eating their pastries doesn’t make me nervous, go figure. Yay for following basic health codes!
Now if only they accepted credit cards, then I wouldn’t have to run to the PNC Bank across the street every time I forget to carry cash.

This location leans towards the Soho area as it is slightly outside of Chinatown’s radius. I agree with a previous reviewer that the bubble tea is prepared well with high quality ingredients using fresh fruit. I love their Mango Bubble Tea!
The service in this location is somewhat attentive. Their buns and baked goodies are not a lot of variety of choices as their other locations though. I was hoping for the ham and egg bun, which they did not have any in stock.

This location is far superior to the one on 34^th street for bubble tea. The 34^th street one doesn’t make frozen bubble tea and adds way too much toasted coconut to the coconut flavor bubble tea. Please tell me the Chinatown Fay Da hasn’t started adding toasted coconut too? It makes it waaaay too sweet.

All these stars are for the bubble tea. I haven’t had their food at all, but their bubble tea (my favorites: taro, coconut) is the BEST bubble tea I’ve had, hands down (and I’ve had quite a lot of bubble tea). Their bubbles are just the right chewiness (and they give you a good amount – as they give a good amount of tea, too) and the iciness of their bubble tea is not like any I’ve had before: JUST enough iciness that you never have to mix to drink, enough to play on your tongue and crunch like sugar… it’s perfect.

On the crazy and shady Canal Street, it’s hard to find a place that is both reliable in price and comfort. When I was running down the street in hopes of escaping the freezing wind and rain last night, I saw the glow from the bakery and the warm deliciousness called my name.
I was drenched, cold, and hungry, and of all the things they had, a turkey and fried egg croissant sandwich looked the most satisfying (although I probably could have eaten a lot lot more), and at the register they offered to heat it up for me. HEAVEN!
Now that this is open here, I’ll have a good place to stop for snacks and refueling before fighting my way through the tourists and the people screaming at me to buy handbags to get to my subway. Hooray!

Odd how you situated yourself between two Hey Mon shops. Nothing beats bootleg LV bags and a nice steamy bun to go with it. I digress. Oh my how you have outgrown yourself! From a mere fledgling at 50 cents for a bun to now hovering around the dollar mark, surely greed must have gotten to your head in your adolescent years. To meet our yuppified needs, you even cut off the crust in your wonder bread style sandwiches.
steamed buns: — barely any meat, lots of bun though, blah
–chicken and mushroom ($~1)
–pork and mushroom ($~1)
baked bun sanwiches: — a fried cutlet folded in half and cut
–fried chicken cutlet sandwich (~$ 4) — came w/​unmelted american cheese and some lettuce
wonder bread style sandwiches: — just OK
–tuna sandwich (~$ 4) — tasted the celery bits
–ham and egg sandwich (~$ 4)
–cold iced chinese tea w/​milk (~$ 2) — way too much cream