New Venus hk cafe Newark — Restaurant in Newark

Not a bakery despite its name. And there are no photos of Venus either. However, you can get lots of food and the booths are comfy. It's very popular though, so be prepared to wait if you come during a customer surge.

Apparently the restaurant models itself after a Hong Kong style eating establishment. My husband who had worked a lot in HK thought so as well.

The menu is in English, but had things on there like "sapghetti", "petizers" and "macaron". Not the French type of macaron, mind you, but the typo kind. Many items come with tea/coffee, garlic toast, soup and dessert.

I ordered chow fun w/ veggies and tofu ($7.25). TONS of noodles! In fact, between two of us, we couldn't finish the plate. Emphasis is on noodles. Too many for an appropriate veggie/tofu to noodles ratio. Recently got chow fun here and my daughter found a spider in it (!!!).

Interesting items on the menu such as peanut butter and condensed milk toast. Drinks with Ribena, etc.

Probably won't be...

We got the oyster beef with rice and the hainan chicken. Both came with your choice of milk tea or lemon ice tea and a soup.

The tea though a standard sweet lemon iced tea was surprisingly quite good and refreshing if I do say so myself. I'm not sure if it was the sugar or lemons or if I just haven't had lemon ice tea in a long time but either way it wasn't bad.

The soup had tomatoes and cabbage and was slightly sweet and sour. It wasn't really my thing.

Now on to the entrees. The hainan chicken was okay. The portions were a bit small chickenwise but it also came with two scoops of yellow rice and some peanuts on the side and some vegetable I did not try. Flavorwise it was only okay not too special. The entire meal was like a wannabe bentos box.

The beef was very good. It was saucy and slightly sweet with a good amount of mushrooms. The beef was tender and complemented by a side of rice. I would...

Came here for lunch with my wife and daughter. Once we came in they said we can take a sit where we’d like but after that no one came to attend us. After about 10 min. Had to raise my hand to get someone to attend us. And even then they attended another group first who had came in 10 min after us. Once we ordered we waited to receive our water. Which never came. Asked the same server again about the water and still nothing. My wife had to go to the front desk to go pick up our water. We asked for rice and it never came. We asked for a drink and received the wrong one. Just over all a bad service. The only good thing was that the food was delicious. Don’t think I’ll be...