Maxin’s Cafe

Very good place to have Chinese breakfast in Flushing. I like and recommend to my friends.

This is a place i go almost every morning to get my buns. They have so many for you to choose from. Price are okay and they also have good pastries. I usually get the ice milk tea in the summer and they also have herbal tea which taste okay. They also have rice/​noodles/​congee if you walk further down.
Is right by LIRR and close to the 7^th train. You can simply just grab and go catch your train. Service pretty fast and not much wait time even in the Morning.

This review is solely based on the cheesecake: this little innocent 3 by 3 inch cube of pure tangy creaminess that never dissappoints.
Flushing has a bizillion bakeries and most start tasting the same after a while (a pineapple bun’s a pineapple bun…)
But a good slice of cheesecake? Hard to come by in Flushing. And I don’t mean those diluted with flour Japanese cheesecakes, nope, no thank you (me wantz my saturated fat full force please)
I think it’s even better than cheesecake from the Whitestone place. Go Try it !!

This Maxims is for a younger crowd. I love their varied selection, like going to a Morning Glory store but for sweets and baked goods. Love it!

I just went in for a cup of coffee and a roasted pork bun. It was OK. The coffee is $ 1, which is more than what it is in Chinatown Manhattan. The pork bun is average with not much pork inside.
I think you can find much better buns out in Manhattan for less $$$ surprisingly.

Typical Chinese breakfast with dumplings, noodles, and sesame pancake wrapped with beef, and chinese style empanadas. I went for the tofu custard with condiments and asked for the optional hot sauce and an order of noodles. Tofu custard seem popular that morning when I walked in. I think its going to be one of my favorite quick breakfast items for a while.

Everyone says this is a HK style bakery, but this is really a FLUSHING style bakery. They have HK style baked goods but also some Taiwanese food favorites (fried pork chop over rice).
The milk tea, as usual, is made with non-​dairy creamer and I think very very old sugar.
Cheaper than Tai Pan. Right by the LIRR and TB Park. Old men with long pinky nails and snot. Older ladies with their grandkids. HS kids menacing about. Flushing style.

maxins café is a combination bakery/​eatery. the front of the café is the bakery and the back is a cafeteria style restaurant where you order, the ladies place the items on a tray, pay the cashier, and then sit and eat. my brother and i came here for breakfast around 8 am and it was absolutely packed… lots of people in the bakery section as well as in the back eating breakfast.
we didn’t feel like eating there, so we got several items to go:
pan fried pork/​chive dumpling: very good. comes with vinegar dipping sauce
steamed pork buns (3): tasty pork filling… and the buns… they were so soft and pillowy… brushed with sesame seeds… comes with vinegar dipping sauce
sticky rice roll with cruller and dried pork: weird combination that just didn’t work for me
pan fried pork bun: not bad… prefer the steamed buns
corn soup: not really sure how to describe it… it tasted like ground and dried reconstituted corn kernels… it was okay… had a nice nutty flavor
one milk tea: black tea with milk and sugar… actually better than expected.
total came out to be less than $ 12
3.5 stars

This place is modeled after the chain, Maxim’s Bakery, in Hong Kong. Hubby and I made a trip to HK back in 2003, and we absolutely loved the food offered at Maxim’s, and was definitely excited that they were opening up a branch in NY.
However, we found out that this is really the «bootleg» one, because they spell the place with an «N» instead of an «M». Bummer.
The breads here are Cantonese style (if that means anything to you Chinese kids); for me, I prefer Taiwanese style baked goods (like those at Yi Mei Fung). There’s a noticeable difference to me, although it might not be present for others.
They have the usual coffees, teas and other drinks. They also have hot food like noodles and a small buffet-​style bar where you can buy 4 dishes with a small serving of rice for like $ 5.
It’s a good economical way to eat, if you enjoy this type of food.
The crowd is mostly older Chinese folk who like to linger, read their newspaper and watch TV.

Just a Note: The bakery is actually called Maxin’s Café, but the business listing hasn’t been updated yet.
Cakes are excellent!
We had the Black Forest Chinese cake from Maxin’s after searching 2 other bakeries after this and ended up right back where we started. The cakes here are reasonably priced especially for a Chinese Cake — you know where it’s light and fluffy, not too sweet, with that light airy frosting.
Service is great!
The girls here helped us identify each of the cakes that were displayed with what ingredients were in each. Quoted the price for each one. And happy placed the plastic «Happy Birthday» onto the cake because the cake didn’t really have room to write anything on, which was fine. The girl advised that it wouldn’t look that great with the writing and I can see why. The cake was beautifully decorated with fruits and chocolate leafs and was also of a dome shape making it difficult to add anything on it.
According to my father, the coffee is «pretty good» compared to neighboring bakeries.
Additionally, most bakeries are not meant to be lingered in, as they will have 1 or 2 tables. Typically you would go in, get your thing and leave. Here, you have an option to park your tuckus in a relatively large area with plenty of tables and seats and enjoy your treat.