Kamboat Bakery & Cafe

"A popular Chinatown restaurant closed with a crowd this week. The owner is retiring, according to a note on the front door. The bakery was known for its pineapple buns, egg tarts, and custom cakes. Ahead of the closure, customers flocked to the bakery to clear out its shelves." - Luke Fortney

"Curry fish-ball rice rolls from Tonii's with all the sauces—peanut sauce, hoisin, soy, hot sauce—then a pre-rolled rice roll with pork and scallions from Ho Won Bake (146 Hester St.) and an egg tart from Kamboat Bakery (111 Bowery) on the walk over." - Calvin Eng

"The most reliable clue that you're standing in one of the best pastry shops or bakeries in Manhattan Chinatown is the number of elderly folks inside, sipping tea, reading the newspaper, and gossiping about their neighbors. Kamboat (111 Bowery) is one of these places. They make the best egg tart in town, but the key is to flirt with the ladies working the front so they give you a dozen from the freshest batch, usually hidden in the back."

"“Kamboat Bakery & Cafe serves the best egg tarts and Portuguese-style egg tarts. They also have a back kitchen that definitely caters more to the Chinatown locals. They serve up all sorts of stir-fried noodles and congees that are very grab-and-go friendly.”" - Anna Rahmanan

"A classic Chinese bakery on the border of Chinatown and the Lower East Side, Kamboat offers a variety of baked goods in addition to coffee, rice rolls, and various other dishes. But we mainly come here for some of the best egg tarts in the city. The crust is a little more crumbly than flaky, and the egg custard center is impossibly smooth. We like to buy these egg tarts by the dozen, save a few for ourselves, and bring the rest to potlucks to share with friends." - Izzy Chen, Team Infatuation