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I've been wanting to try out this place for awhile now since it is always advertised on the radio. I have never been to the original location before (City Hollywood inside Market Village) so I really had nothing this location to. Apparently, this location has been here for awhile now and it is bigger than the original location. My family of 4 came here the day after boxing day for lunch at 1pm and when we got there, there were 3 other larger groups (4-5ppl) waiting ahead of us. It seemed very busy as there was no one at the front desk to help us with the wait. We had to flag down a waitress in order to put our names on the waiting list. It didn't really bother us because after all, it was lunch time and a 15-20 min wait was expected. The interior of the place is quite big for a HK cafe. The tables and seats looked comfortable and the place overall was nicely decorated for Christmas. We were seated after a 20 minute wait.
It wasn't hard for us to flag down a waitress to take our orders. She was quick and accurate and she knew what she was doing. I liked that she just gave us things like extra plates and ketchup based on our orders without us asking her. Bonus points right there. And when we did ask for more utensils and condiments, she and other waitresses didn't look too bothered by it.
Food:
We ordered 4 things to share amongst ourselves:
- Minced beef with egg on rice ($7.50): This was the worst dish of the 4. The sauce tasted really weird. It is definitely not the traditional HK style dish that we're used to in HK or in other HK cafes. Minced beef you say? to be honest, I don't even know if there was any minced beef or meat in there. It was too tiny that I felt like eating just rice with some kind of sauce. We will definitely NOT order this ever again.
- Portuguese style baked chicken on rice ($8.50): This dish was okay. I liked how they "stir-fried' it with VERY LITTLE bit of egg in it. The Portuguese sauce was okay, coconut-y. I like that the chicken was boneless as many other HK cafes have it boned-in which always makes me hesitant to order it.
- Garoupa casserole in cream sauce ($8.50): This was the best dish out of the 3 entrees. The cream sauce was tasty, the fish was 'shallow fried' and it was very good. The entire dish was very delicious! For just an extra dollar, I would order this again.
All lunch specials and non-special entrees come with a daily soup and a sweet buttery roll (either Chinese style Russian borscht or corn cream) and coffee/tea. The HK milk tea was okay, nothing special. The yingyang (mixed coffee and tea) was not good; it seemed that they used instant coffee instead of brewed coffee. I noticed that there also have Preso BBT, so I might try that next time.
- The basket of chicken wings ($19.99 for ~20 pieces) is what the restaurant is known for apparently. We ordered it with Honey Garlic and BBQ sauce. I should have ordered the HK sauce instead. It came with a little bit of fries. It was good and crispy. I might come back again to just have wings and a pitcher of beer with my friends in the future.
Overall, the food was mediocre. The quality isn't the best, but you get what you paid for. For ~$10, tax included, a daily soup, meal and coffee/tea is good enough to keep you full for awhile. Portions are large so you will probably need a takeout box (which you have to pay $0.25 PER BOX, even if you can't finish it when you dine-in. This I find ridiculous people are just SAVE people and not waste it and you charge us a quarter for a styrofoam box?)
There are definitely better HK cafes out there. I did find that they have the least MSG in all of the cafes I have been to.
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