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| - I used to go to the original Golden Horse on Hwy 7 at Kennedy when I was younger. A lot younger. This place has been around, even though it's changed names a few time. It used to be called Sweet Heart Cafe, while it's Chinese name was Golden Horse. Now it's English name is Golden Horse, while it's Chinese name is Macau Street. Confused yet? Yeah, me too.
Regardless, the place has done well for itself. It's probably changed owners as the dishes are different, but the value is still quite good. I miss when they used to have cream soups (I find not a lot of HK cafes give out the Chinese-style cream soups these days), and my baked spaghetti came completely covered in sauce instead of just a pile on top now.
We went for lunch recently at this location, and they have a lunch special where you order 5 lunches and one of them (the cheapest one) is free. Each lunch comes with a soup (either borscht or Chinese-style) and an HK coffee / tea. The food was good, and the portions are large, so we had a lot of food left over (4 adults and a kiddo).
The wait for us was insane though. We had called ahead of time to reserve a table in the morning, and when we got there, we still had to wait an extra 20 minutes as they had no tables available at all, and were not keen on putting together small tables as they became free to accommodate our larger group of 5 (especially when they had several walk-ins with party sizes of 2 - 4). They had probably 3 tables max that could hold 6 people, so we had to wait for one of those to free up. Certainly a frustrating experience for us, even though I know they were very busy taking care of the tables they had already seated.
Would I come here again? Maybe. I'd love for better service, and then I'll certainly reconsider.
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