Hai Tang Cafe

Food is always excellent and price is unbelievably cheap. Only downside is the line ups.

I used to come here pretty often when they gave away a free sweet and sour pork dish for orders $ 25+ for dinner. Nowadays, I find that the food has gotten more oily, salty, and doused in MSG. This is quite unfortunate because their meats and vegetables are quite fresh and decently priced.

I used to always visit Hai Tang café for their spicy and sour soup noodles when I still live around the area. I paid another visit last night with my roommate for a quick dinner. The food was good, service is mediocre as usual. It would have been a great dinner, except both of us have been suffering from diarrheas and stomach aches later at night. It’s been a while since I dine here and I hope that’s just an isolated incidence.

This is my mid early afternoon to go place. Its a small place but i like the environment. Weeknds are always pack. Usually i go on weekdays they have a pretty good deal. From 2:30−5pm mon to thursday i believe if you spend over 10 $ you get a free pineapple bun with butter or French Toast. Today i ordered a combo 4(vermicelli with pickled veggy in soup and alsp comes with 2 eggs and a toast) very good i always order this for the price you pay and the quantity you get makes this a very good deal.
The other dish today was the fried rice noodle with bean sprout and beef. The beef was a bit dry today but it is ok. This dish can be very oily i find today they used less oil which i like. More oil easy for chef to cook the noodles as it stick less to the wok.
The free french toast was good. Today was more golden brown. Soft and with butter what can you ask for more lol.
Never had a problem eatting here. Servers are nice and friendly. Havent had any issue yet.

This place service is getting worse and worse. Walk in to this restaurant and waitress must be blind because there are tables open and they are not seating us and the people before me. Finally sat down and we ask one of the waitress that walk by me something and didn’t reply. We got up and left. Never come back again!!!

Beef Satay noodle soup around $ 5. And it tastes
Really good! And it comes with free milk tea:-)

My new go-​to place when I am craving for some HK style café food. This is definitely a no frills, tasty joint where you will get the most bang for your buck.
Forget about the service (which is actually above par) or the tiny parking lot. Forget about the occasionally dirty tables and lineups during lunch and after noon tea time. This place hits the spot when you are hungry and craving for some fast, cheap, deliciousness.
Not everything is good of course but I would say 80% of the menu is great. The highlights include the baked rice/​spaghetti and various rice dishes. Their soup noodle dishes are sub-​par I would say so avoid if you can.
A few notes to pass along. They get real busy during lunch time and afternoon tea time (expect to wait a few minutes). They stop serving their HK style café menu after 5PM. In the evenings they only serve family style chinese dishes. You will find the same great deliciousness and value in their dinner menu as well.

I’ve been coming here for years, and the food has been pretty consistent. The best word would be ‘average’. Not bad, but not great either.
The best thing about it would definitely be the price. My family comes here on a semi-​regular basis because of the price and it’s proximity to home.
Breakfast and lunch are pretty good, as you can get a meal and the service is very fast! For dinner, you get soup and Chinese dessert. If you order more than $ 28 worth, you get free Sweet and Sour Pork.
Overall decent food for the price, but have noticed that there is more and more MSG over the past couple years.
Overall a good place to get Chinese food at a good price with decent portions, but not the best place around.

One of my favorite Hong Kong Style restaurant.
Small area, but great food. And the most importantly is that, they are really good price.
A lot of variety of dishes, from snack dishes to main course.
For dinner, they are having a good value combo. And worth to try.

Food: 3 stars
Overall value: 3.5 stars
I have dined in and taken out lunches at Hai Tang Café a few times. Hai Tang is usually busy during weekday lunchtime. This has something to do with its well portioned lunch combos that cost only $ 6.99, all come with a hot beverage. They are better value than food court food, and it does not hurt that the Hong Kong milk tea here is great.
I have eaten its Crème Corn with Fish Fillets on Rice, Pork Chops/​Chicken Chops on Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce, a few stir fried noodles, etc. The food has been passable. It tastes bold, regardless it is black beans flavour, tomatoes flavour, and generally salty flavour. The stir fried rice noodle can be too oily for some. In other words, if you like bold flavours, you will like the food; if not, you could be overwhelmed. I happen to like sodium.

Went there for breakfast on the weekend and it was packed and reading the reviews I thought it was going to be good. Ordered the corned beef sandwich and also the egg sandwich with ham and macaroni combo. The food itself was ok. It wasn’t exceptionally good, a little skimpy on the corned beef and the soup base for the macaroni was a little funky. Plus based on the color of the macaroni, they used some cheap pasta.
Price wise this place is cheap and maybe that is why a lot of people go.
Service wise their kitchen runs on batch orders? You’ll see a batch of similar (or the same) items come out at once not really based on order sequence. So for something like a corned beef sandwich that was more «unique» it took forever to come out. If you want fast service I would recommend getting noodles since pretty much everything was pre-​made already.

Other than New City, this is the restaurant we go to every weekend for breakfast. I usually get the Guilin noodles and an iced tea drink. The prices here are pretty unbeatable and food is great. There’s always a huge lineup as usually but it moves pretty quickly.
Customer service is pretty nonexistent here but that’s with any Chinese restaurant I guess. They’re just too focused on serving everyone and turning tables to get everyone seated.

The food you get is very good for the price you pay.
Quality of food is also great.
The restaurant is fairly small, therefore creating a lot of fuss in line ups especially on weekends of after school hours due to the afternoon tea rush and specials.
Service is not so friendly there overall, but I live closeby and visit very often, so ive gotten to know the servers there and are now definately more warm and welcoming.
Its a fast paced environment and honestly. for the price you pay, you cant expect world class service.
It’s a place you can enjoy a quick meal.
But I give it 5 stars for the price and food!

All the reviews are mixed, I’ve come here my fair share of times and it doesn’t bother me. I always get what I want, I am not surprised by quality for price, and I leave not having spent that much.
This time I had dinner, never had dinner here. For $ 42, got some fried veggies, got a grouper (fish) and tofu hot pot, half a chicken and some honey garlic ribs.
The hot pot is a steal at like $ 8. The veggies and cold chicken is what it is, decent Chinese food. The ribs, too fried, left it hard to eat.
They did some redecoration recently which I guess is a result of what someone else said was a change in ownership. I think the place looks classier than it used to. Well done.
I’ve come here for breakfast and afternoon tea a couple times before as well as takeout, I’d say it’s good value.
Tip, when you get in you gotta take charge, get someone’s attention fast and yell out how many people. This place is packed and you don’t wanna just ‘blend in’.

I can’t believe that this place is getting such a high rating. I’m kinda surprised. I’ve been here a few times but I only come due to family. I have to agree that the price is cheaper than across the street by 1 – 2 $ but the food is disgusting.
People nowadays don’t really look for quality food if they can give this place a high rating. One time my dad order a tofu rice and the tofu already went bad. We told the waitress and she didn’t even bother to apologize. She asked us so what do you want?
Another time, my cousins came along, we ordered HK style milk tea and they made lemon tea instead. When we asked them to change it they gave us such attitude.
I am sure willing to pay more to get something better than what this is.

Good value chinese restaurant. Overall lunch is ok after 2:30pm, if your order is over $ 10 before tax, free bread or egg sandwich. Dinner is great and good price. if your order is over around $ 40 before tax. Free sour/​sweet meat dishes. I forgot may be over over $ 50 or 60. free half chicken.