Tea house cafe — Restaurant in Greater Strathcona

Went to check out Tea house cafe on a Sunday after getting groceries. I was pretty excited since there aren't a lot of Hong Kong style cafes in the city of Edmonton.

Tea house cafe is located just a block away from whyte ave. It's a fairly small and crowded little restaurant. There are roughly 5 tables on the main floor and then 3 up a narrow flight of stairs.

The menu is quite large and has a lot of the typical Hong Kong cafe items, such as sweet corn and pork on rice, congee, wonton noodle soup, breakfast, various types of chow mein/noodles and baked bowl rice. Tea house also has a infamous lunch special that allows for the items to come with your choice of HK style coffee or tea. Most of the items on lunch special list are roughly around $14.95.

We ordered what was supposed to be a preserved egg congee (but they made a mistake and I ended up with fish and tofu congee), a singapore noodles and the cream corn with pork on rice. The food was okay, not overly flavourful or mind blowing but also not awful. The cream corn dish had a overwhelming amount of cream corn to rice ration, which made it more wet and soupy than we would have liked.

Unfortunately, the day we went, the services was fairly slow and it took our food over 30 minutes. What should have been a quick meal turned into an almost 1.5 hour sit down, which is a really long time for a HK cafe type meal. The servers were all pleasant, just really slow.

I'll likely go back and give it another try sometime. It might have just been the day and like I said before - there aren't a lot HK cafe style restaurants in Edmonton and there wasn't anything particularly wrong with food. I guess I really wanna like this place so I would be willing to give it a second chance. Will update this review when I go...

We wanted to try another Hong Kong restaurant and decided on this one. Well, we are Chinese so we didn't expect much of service, but this place had non-existent service. We came in and stood by the door (which kept loudly chiming from a motion sensor so they knew we were there) for about 20 minutes with nobody acknowledging us to even tell us a wait time. Waiters even walked past us without a word.

Then when we ordered, one of our dishes came out wrong (he ordered a soup but got noodles without the soup instead). They ran out of milk tea by 1pm. I admit we did come at peak hours but by the time we got seated there were a couple of empty tables. The coffee that came with our meal came when we were basically finished eating. We also had to get up to ask them for anything including the bill. The food was fine otherwise, not amazing but not bad. Overall do not...

I stopped by Tea House Cafe after passing by it many times over the years. The restaurant gave me a classic Hong Kong Cafe vibe. In terms of food, I tried several items from their Tea Time menu: Rice Roll + Preserved Egg & Pork Congee, Beef Fried Ho Fan Noodles, and French Toast with hot (milk) tea. The congee was on the lighter side in terms of flavour, had less or no msg, and was overall comforting. The rice noodles were quite good, especially with the (peanut/hoisin) sauce. The beef stir fry ho fan noodles was decent as it had a nice “wok hei ''. The tea was also nice. The most noteworthy item was the French Toast though. It was crispy but not dry, and flavourful but not too greasy. Overall, it was also pretty good value for the quality and quantity of food, so I’d give them 8.5/10 for Canto...