8 Cafe

Grew up eating here with friends. The most famous Hong Kong cafe joint in the 626 area for lunch to late night eats...with everyone avoiding the window seats at night. They now have covid outdoor tent seating. Can't go wrong with your orders here. Typical, decent with 1 refill of drinks now vs unlimited.

JJ Cafe is still great as ever! Most places have reduce their quality, portion, and/or service. Not this place. Steak was as I remembered and the quality was really good, medium. The baked seafood was more seafood than rice which is rare and the sauce was really tasty. The service was very attentive without being intrusive. I am glad one of my favorites is still great despite the pandemic.

Food: Hit & miss. Depends on whose cooking, what the chef's shift is, their mood, etc... Feb2022, their 豉汁排骨炒河粉 (spare ribs + rice noodles) were ok. Also had their 豬頸配飯 (Pork neck over rice). Not bad. Much better than the bland 雲吞麵 (Wonton noodles) in 2017. First batch of 鴛鴦奶茶 (coffee+milk tea) toasted like they put in some red lemon tea, instead of Assam red tea. Sort of weird, but I drank it nonetheless. Second batch was normal. Service: These people will leave you alone to have a peaceful meal. So you gotta' do your part to flag them down. Much more traditional type of service. If you're a regular, they'll treat you like a VIP though. **None of these should be construed as complaints. Just how things are.** Price: Despite inflation, everything is VERY reasonable.

Service not very good. Given it's late around 11pm. I also never been to a Chinese restaurant which charges for tea besides dim sum restaurant. So order at your own risk. Cart noodle - Pretty lame. Thought the curry squid made in curry sauce instead of cooked it and pour curry sauce over it. Indo fried rice - Is really just Maggie sauce fried rice with 2 tasteless shrimps and some bits of beef that's very tough. Not edible. It was really disappointing. They have xo sauce fried rice, I supposed it's gotta be better. Overall experience here was pretty bad. The restaurant is old and run down. They served the wrong cart noodle, gave us the wrong ingredients. And they asked us, if that's ok. He was trying to avoid changing it. Not sure if it's laziness or being cheap. We aren't offended but we felt that's not really the way to serve your patrons.