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$11.49 + Tax This restaurant is still one of my most favorite breakfast joints. I had the Fresh Strawberry Cheese Blintz German Pancakes Combo. The blintz tasted really good. The whipped cream was the real thing, it was not the typical fake whip cream made from vegetable shortening which I hate. The strawberries tasted fresh and the glaze was nicely done that I didn’t need extra syrup. The eggs were perfectly done to my liking. I chose bacon but there is an option for sausages. I enjoyed this breakfast very much.

$15.99 + Tax This place used to be great years ago. My former employer used to order from this place for our Overtime dinners. I haven’t been back for a while, and I’m not impressed with the BBQ lunch special today. I was given a choice of 2 meats and a side. I picked chicken, baby back rib, a baked potato topped with sour cream and green onions. The potato was the only delicious item on the plate. The baby back rib had a thick hard exterior. The chicken leg was also dry and tough and didn’t have the texture of fresh BBQ. I don’t like the biscuit either because it tasted a little stale and tough too. I should have known because I didn’t smell BBQ from the outside. May be the restaurant just has better ventilation nowadays. But this didn’t taste like fresh BBQ to me. The food tasted like it was cooked days ago and was just reheated for me today.

I ordered the combo that comes with the coffee for $8.95 + tax, but the sandwich can certainly be ordered alone without the coffee for a little less money. The sandwich looked huge and delicious on the plate. The bread was awesome because it was warm and crisp. The bread tasted really fresh. The overly sweet mayonnaise ruined it however. I don't like the sandwich so much I just took one bite of it and couldn't finish. It was just too sweet! I like to come to this cafe because I like the free WiFi & the comfortable seating here. The cafe gives out the password on the customer receipt... so I had to order something. I wonder though if the password can be used next time when I visit...

MOP 40, approx US$4.97 While coffee seems to be pretty much a universal beverage, but every country has its own way of making coffee its own.  Apparently, Hong Kong has its own rendition of coffee.  I'm curious about all cultures, including the coffee culture, so when I saw there was a Hong Kong style coffee on the menu of this restaurant , I just had to try it out.  I have to say that I much prefer the coffee that I usually ordered back in Los Angeles .  This Hong Kong style coffee was a little too bland for me...

MOP 40, approx US$4.97 Like Hong Kong, Macau has a very strong milk-tea drinking culture. I have no idea why milk-tea is so popular in Macau. People here always order it in breakfast and afternoon tea and snack times. May be Macau’s proximity to Hong Kong just makes everything that is popular in Hong Kong also popularity in Macau. The popularity of drinking milk-tea here is like drinking coffee back in the USA. I think milk-tea drinking has been catching on in the USA also, thanks to Starbucks for making Chia tea mainstream, the Thai restaurants for popularizing the Thai Ice Tea, and the Taiwanese restaurants and bakeries for bringing the Boba Milk Tea to the USA. But I personally like the Hong Kong style milk tea the most. It is more flavorful than the Taiwanese Boba milk tea, and it doesn’t taste like perfumy like the Chai. The Hong Kong milk tea has this good rich tea aroma and flavor but it doesn’t have the tartness and bitter undertone of the English tea. I personally...

MOP 55, approx US$6.83 I rarely had Choy Sum ( 菜心 ) in America. The Chinese characters literally translates as “Veggie Heart”, which kinds of tell people what to expect from it in terms of taste and texture. Yes, it’s supposed to have a tender crisp texture, flavorful with a sweet tone. It wasn’t that commonly used a veggie even in the Chinese restaurants that I patronized back home, which often cooked Chinese broccoli, spinach or baby bak choy. But I always had Choy Sum whenever I visited Southern China. Choy Sum looks like Chinese broccoli, but it has a very different texture, different taste and different color of flowers. The flowers of Choy Sum are yellow. When I was a kid, I always picked the flower parts to eat because I think it was fun, and it just tasted a lot more tender than the rest of the veggie. I still remember that very first Choy Sum that I had many years ago when I was about 4 years old, at a very ugly and run down restaurant tugged away in the mid...