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Lots of specials at good prices
Good amount of seats
Cons:
Food is average and portions could be better
Another weekend, another HK style place to try. Hai Tang Cafe is your typical HK style cafe. It gets the job done and a pretty good price. It won't do anything to seperate itself from other cafes of the same nature. Go in with no super expectations, and you won't be disappointed at all.
We came on a holiday Monday and boy was the place busy. Thankfully, they have a lot of seats here and turnover at HK style cafes is usually pretty quick of we were seated not too long after. Coming here for lunch, we were given the lunch menu which by comparison to the dinner menu, features a lot less. Nonetheless, they have a good amount of specials all at pretty good prices. My GF ordered the baked chicken on macaroni and I got he beef brisket on rice.
Compared to other HK style cafes, the food took a bit longer than usual to come out. I factored in their larger than normal size for a place like this coupled with how busy they were for the delay. If it's really busy when you come here, expect the same.
My beef brisket was OK. some of the pieces were a little tougher to chew. The sauce was OK, almost a bit too over salted. It went well with the plainness of the lettuce leaves that come with the dish. The baked macaroni looked and tasted pretty good. I wished they would of put more sauce on the dish but that's just me. My overall feel is the food does the job, the portions could be better.
We were seated in a side room from the main part of the restaurant. At times it was hard to get a waitress when we needed one. Being where we were, we could only call them if they entered the room we were in for another reason.
Hai Tang Cafe as a HK style cafe gets the job done. It will never impress you, but at the price point you really can't complain too much.
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