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| - B & B Cafe Restaurant is a Hong Kong Style Cafe located in a plaza right beside Pierre Elliot Trudeau High School. It serves up your usual "cha chan tang" food.
Decor:
Upon walking in, the restaurant looks pretty small. Booth seats along the side and some tables in the middle (around 3 in the middle, to give you an idea of the size). The decor is pretty drab, dull colors etc. However, at the same time it has that more old school feel to it that other HK cafes don't have. Along the wall there are specials taped up (though cause of my bad Chinese reading skills, I didn't know what they were). This added even more of an old school feel to it.
In the booth seats the "back" (where your back rests upon) was not cushioned so that wasn't really comfortable. But thankfully, the seat was and it wasn't too cramped. The restaurant looks clean enough, not too dirty but I do suspect that where the floor meets the wall it may have been dirty. The lighting is pretty good, it isn't too dark nor too bright.
Score: 3.2
Service:
At first, the service seemed to be your typical Chinese restaurant service, competent, quick etc. And while they do fulfill this perfectly. I noticed that despite this was the first time we came they were already a bit nice to us, something I don't usually notice in HK cafes.
Score: 3.4
Food:
Personally, considering myself as a Hainanese chicken connoisseur I had to try their Hainanese chicken rice. Coming at $6.99 (and including soup and drink) it was pretty cheap but I was concerned that the quality would be lacking.
The soup that came with it wasn't your typical HK cafe soup (Chinese borscht etc.) But rather a more traditional Chinese soup. Didn't know the name as they just called it Chinese soup but the flavour of the soup was very familiar. It had a nice meaty and salty taste (though too salty for me). And had a piece of wintermelon and carrot which was nice.
When the dish came it looked like a big plate of food, and it pretty much was.When served my parents noted that it was a more canto style of this dish, maybe the reason why there were a number of differences in this Hainanese chicken dish?The choy sum/gai lan (can't remember which one it was) was average, there wasn't really enough Hoisin sauce for all of it so most of it was bland. I dislike raw ginger so naturally, I disliked the pickled ginger slices (as they had that raw taste). The ginger and onion sauce was very good though, it added much flavour to the chicken. Only thing I wish for is that it was served on the side rather than on the dish itself. The chicken was pretty decent, it had some flavour, but obviously needed the ginger and onion sauce to add that extra "umph". The rice was something different, it was flavoured however no in the usual way. Instead I think it was flavoured with some kind of curry paste? It had that curry color and flavour. The flavour was toned down a bit so it didn't get overpowered. However, at times there were clumps of paste not thoroughly distributed throughout the rice. The price for portions was definitely good however it was the quality/taste that was just a bit lacking.
I got a hot lemon tea for a drink and it was average, wasn't bad however, it wasn't good at the same time.
Score: 3.75
Final Score: 3.45
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