Monthly Archives: July 2013

Happy Valley Seafood Restaurant 名閣海鮮酒家

I’ve been to this restaurant for lunch with my company several times. Every time, it’s always good food. They’re very consistent, and so far, I have no complaints about this restaurant. It’s cleaner than some of the Chinese restaurants I’ve been.

The plates are inexpensive for the portion, and they taste delicious!!! The interior is mostly clean, and they change the cloth on the tables for each customer like higher-end restaurants do.

My only issue is that they’re catered to Chinese customers, meaning their menu are mainly in Chinese, with brief English written in small type. But I guess you can get by it, so not a huge problem. But since we have a Chinese-speaking employee and we always leave the ordering in Cantonese for us, I can never learn the names of the dishes LOL.

In our latest visit, we had five adults, ordering 10 dishes. We could only finish 65-70 percent (the rest for take out), and the food came to a total of only $61 (before taxes and tip). We were all really stuffed and really happy with Happy Valley. Thumbs up if you like Chinese cuisine!

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Steamed Prawn Dumplings $4.50

Deep Fried Squid with Peppery Salt $6.50

Chow Mein with Mixed Vegetable $9.95

Xiao long bao

Pan Fried Radish Cake $5.75

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Hon’s on Robson

This is a huge open restaurant. I didn’t like the atmosphere. Maybe it’s the military looking fluorescent lighting, with the cold walls, and no room for privacy. It’s just not comforting, and the actual cold temperature during the winter doesn’t help.

It was Christmas, and we tried out duck and fried rice for lunch. The duck had hardly any meat. I know in some dishes, they eat the bone, but sorry for my ignorance, but I don’t think you’re suppose to eat these bones. We were both unsatisfied with the super greasy duck, and pretty plain fried rice. Both were on really cheap plastic plates which degraded the food even more. For what you got, I thought the price was high.

Service wasn’t that great, but from places like these, I didn’t expect too much.

For a restaurant that I heard it was good, I was disappointed in everything. I wont be going back any time soon!

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Innocent Cafe – CLOSED

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When we got to the cafe, there were no other customers. But the place is a cute 2-storey small cafe, where the 2nd floor is transformed into a little art gallery.
As I graphic designer, I was intrigued with their cute business cards and designs of collateral. When we asked who designed them, the brother and sister team (I originally thought they were couple-looking, but one reader had commented – as seen below, that they were siblings) said they did themselves. They weren’t overly friendly or sociable, but we got our drinks and muffin. I was happy to see some IKEA bookshelves and sofa’s. The theme seemed to be white and clean. I liked the first floor much more than the upstairs.

It’s an easy-to-miss cafe, worth trying out

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Love their branding! So cute

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Went back recently and noticed that they got new furniture for the second level. It seemed more inviting. They left the door open on a cold rainy day, so I froze, but a film crew were shooting a film just outside the cafe and so people were going in and out of the cafe often. Service is ok, nothing friendly or joyful. I still do like their branding, and beautiful lattes.

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