Tried the baked pork chop over rice and hot HK milk tea here. The rice was very heavy with ginger flavor which I don't like at all but the pork was tender. The milk tea was perfect for a cold day and definitely a must have! I came back a second time with friends and we got chow fun, curry beef and peanut butter toast. The peanut butter toast was really good! The restaurant space is kind of small and most people in there are only speaking Canto so you know it's a local favorite. The staff were friendly and the food came out on time. I think overall it was good but not my favorite HK cafe because it was also quite pricy for the quality of food. read more

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Authentic HK style dishes and milk tea. You will not be disappointed. When you approach to the restaurant, slow down and turn when you see a small sign "parking in rear". There are no parking spaces in front of the small shops. read more

Descent HongKong cafe style food. The special menu seems interesting, such as beef fried rice with shrimp paste. It seems to be a popular place and there's a wait at lunch. Parking is at the back through a small alley, look for the sign with Chinese name in it, very easy to miss. We tried the baked cod with spinach spaghetti, good amount of fish and spinach, the pasta has taste and not bland, the cod is cheesy but not fishy, overall a good dish. The house special curry brisket has quite some amount of beef and the tendon ls are soft. A HK local friend commented that it has the authentic flavor. The ham and cheese sandwich order came out to be ham and egg, looks average, not very appetizing. Looking around other tables, the dishes in an iron wok shape plate look good. Maybe next time. They are more for the stir fry items such as fried rice or an entrée dish. Docking 2 stars because it's a bit too slow for our food to come out, also it's cash only. read more

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The patrons gave you the 80s feel. It's like a Time Machine. Food is acceptable. I think you guy there because of the homey feel than the food. The milk tea is highly concentrated, the smell of brewing ceylon tea is elevating. read more

6 of us tried it once based on a neighbors recommendation but don't know if I'd go back so soon. The menu has way too many things to choose from which is good but took to long to get served. I can't remember what I ordered but mine was the first to be served to me while my friends had to wait 20 mins for their plate. By then I'm done eating and they're just starting on theirs. 2 gals taking order and serving and too overwhelming for them as I sat and watched them. Food was good but it won't be a place I'd run to for a food craving. read more

Hong Kong style cafe at reasonable prices. Had the baked pork chop rice and wings with fries. Pork chop was very thin and the rice was cooked with too much water, wings with fries were good, very crunchy chicken skin. Favorite part of the meal was the Hong Kong style milk tea, yummy! They do take credit cards. read more

Five stars. This place is great and might be my new favorite Hong Kong food spot. I always consider baked pork chop with tomato sauce as the bench mark (I get it everywhere!) and I have to say- this is one of the best! Even my picky father was saying it was really good and not like the places whose sauce is "from a can" haha. Didn't take any pictures because I ate it too quickly. The milk tea was really good too and special shout out to the hk french toast that my son gobbled up! (NOTE: it has peanut butter inside for all the people with allergies. They actually rushed over when he was starting to eat it to ask if he had an allergy. Their concern was nice) Cash only. They have high chairs. Closed on Weds and there is a small parking lot in the back that they share with a dental office. Hong Kong food is my comfort food and I can't wait to go back to Cafe Orchid. read more

I love baked porkchop, but Cafe Orchid's left me wanting more. The sauce wasn't it and they gave a lot of rice. I finished the porkchop with a huge amount of rice leftover. This review is based on a takeout order I did end of 2021, maybe they've improved since then. read more

Cafe Orchid - Chinese Near Me - Millbrae, California

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This was recommended to us by a friend who grew up in the Milbrae area. My family is from Hong Kong and we generally have high expectations for Cantonese cuisine. It seems to be a family-run business with a small dining area. What we liked, we really liked. The rest was just okay (but okay does not mean bad). Our favorite was the baked oxtail fried rice. Oxtail was tender and we were happy with the portion given. Good amount of veggies and fried rice. Sauce was perfect. No criticism whatsoever. Very easy 5/5 and we'd come back just for more baked rice dishes. The shrimp egg chow fun was not the best. The sauce was too starchy-flavored and wet, which is a bad combo. The rice noodles clumped together too much. However, the eggs were scrambled beautifully and the amount of shrimp was fair. 3/5 The pork chop vermicelli noodles were fine. Nothing to rave about, but this is also a pretty average dish that doesn't tend to blow minds. Good comfort HK cafe food. 4/5 When it comes to HK-style milk tea, we can be quite harsh. Theirs was good. 4/5 I'd love to return and try some more menu items! read more

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Customer service - 3.5/5 Friendliness of staff 3.5/5 Speed of service: 3.5/5 Food quality 3/5 Value of Money 3/5 Cleanliness of restaurant: 3/5 Restaurant decor: 3/5 I went there right before they open around 11am on a weekday. First customer and self seated as the waitress was getting ready for the day. The restaurant decor and customer service were nothing to write home about. As far as food goes, quality was okay for Hong Kong style breakfast menu. We ordered the following: * Pork with Preserved Veggie Noodle Soup - 3/5 * Prawns with Scrambled Eggs over Rice - 4/5 * Fish Ball Noodle Soup - 4/5 The restaurant is located on a strip mall, next to a gas station, across from Millbrae Bart station. Parking lot is in the back of the restaurant but have to drive thru a narrow alleyway to get there. Overall, this is mediocre at best, may look at other choices around the area next time. read more

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Came for dinner and the pork chop is the item to get. The Hong Kong beef chow fun was pretty good as well. Cash only! Service was fine, ambiance is that of a Chinese fast food restaurant. Not much chatter just good food made quickly. read more

Childhood cravings for baked porkchop with rice. Order togo at Cafe Orchids called ahead to place order. Baked Best baked porkchop over-rice around Millbrae area. read more

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solid canto style food in the area. i've only tried a few of their dishes for takeout but definitely wanna try more dishes. so far, i've only tried their baked spaghetti and rice dishes as they're one of the only restaurants in the area that serve this. i've also tried their wet style beef ho fun which was sooo good. interior is pretty small. service is your typical chinese restaurant service. parking is in the back! read more

Pro tip: EXTRA PARKING IS LOCATED IN THE BACK OF THE CAFE! It is also cash/venmo ONLY. I visited Cafe Orchid around 11 AM on Sunday and it was almost full; I would suggest coming around this time if you don't want to wait for a seat. There was a line when we left around 12 PM. I love the extensive menu and traditional HK dishes. The first thing I ordered was the hot Hong Kong Milk Tea. You have the option to add in condensed milk and sugar. I would start with a light option and add on if you feel like it's not sweet enough. The HK beef chow fun (F-1) ($13.75) was delicious. I love the wide rice noodles and they were very generous with the beef slices, scallions, and bean sprouts. It had just enough saltiness and umami flavor from being wok fried. My boyfriend got the cutlet pork chop spaghetti with tomato sauce (S-10) ($13.50). It could have been baked for a little bit longer, but the dish was flavorful and the sauce a little sweet (think tomato paste + vinegar + sugar). This is definitely a classic HK cafe dish. We will definitely be back to try more items next time! read more

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I like their afternoon tea special because the food portion is perfect for a light meal in the afternoon. The baked dishes were delicious. The Hong Kong milk tea was good too. read more

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Great place if you're looking for a HK style cafe. They have a pm tea special menu. Ask for menu.

Awesome prices fast and great service too love their baked ham and cheese spaghetti the flavors are perfect black pepper beef spaghetti was also perfect will definitely be back yum yum love hk cafes read more

We were visiting from Houston, where there isn't too much Cantonese cuisine, so expectations were fairly high coming to SF. This came as a strong recommendation from all of our family living in the Bay Area as a classic Hong Kong style cafe. We came right at opening time on Monday morning and within 30 minutes, the cafe was already filled up (mostly by Chinese elders...always a good sign!). It's fairly small on the inside, so I can see there being a wait during the lunch rush. HK Yuenyeung (hot) - a little milky for my taste, but came out piping hot - 4/5 HK Lai Cha (iced) - strong, personally preferred over the Yuenyeung even though I usually like Yuenyeung more - 5/5 Curry fish balls - the curry was seasoned wonderfully, and the fish balls were juicy. I wish they had soaked in the flavor a bit more, but it might have been because they had just opened so they hadn't been sitting in the curry for very long - 4.5/5 HK french toast w/ peanut butter - AMAZING, LOVED this. Heaping amounts of peanut butter and fried to perfection - 5/5 Baked pork chop with fried rice - the pork chop was nice and juicy, and there were crispy bits of rice at the bottom of the pan (my fave) - 5/5 Braised oxtail with spaghetti - the oxtail was incredibly tender, and the spaghetti sauce was sweet and tangy - 5/5 read more

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I highly recommend this business. The food quality is consistently outstanding, exceeding my expectations every time. The food here is delicious! read more

3.2 stars. We came here for a quick morning bite based on Yelp reviews. Arrived just after 11 AM Sunday at the first few minutes of the opening hour. It was very conveniently located off the corner of El Camino Real and Milbrae. They only accept cash here and not credit cards. Cash only! There's an ATM next door at Comerica Bank if you do need to withdraw quick cash. Plenty of unlimited free street parking and parking lots on Sundays. If you feel like it, you can walk 1-2 minutes north on El Camino Real and visit Sun's Market, a very small local Chinese grocery store to buy some items before hitting the roads. The waitress quickly seated us and handed the menu. The place was almost full with customers by 11:20 AM. Honestly, the spacing was pretty crammed/small distance from each other since you are pretty close to being elbow to elbow with the other tables and can hear everything people were talking about. Depends on where you end up sitting. If there's only two people to one table, they tend to give you the 2-seats and not the 4-seats tables. The table for two was too small/tiny to put everything on it for two foodies who eat 2 main entrees, 2 drinks, a french toast, and a dessert. Anything more would feel better if you sat at a larger table. There were 2-3 waitress staff members who were taking customer orders, preparing foods/drinks, serving foods, and also handling the cash register. Yes, it's very HK/Cantonese style, but we've had better HK cafe foods elsewhere. It's not too bad here, but lots of room for improvement. Staff members were busy throughout the hour. They didn't have my hot Ovaltine drink available this morning, so I ordered A hot lemon tea with no sugar. My hot lemon tea was super boiling hot, even with the sleeves. It was boiling like the hotness you feel from drinking hot beverages in Hong Kong. 3 lemon slices were in the cup. It was not the best tea. Cold HK Coffee and Milk Tea are ok, but the aroma may not be for everyone. I ordered a ham and egg sandwich, but it only had ham inside (no butter or mayonnaise on the dry white breads). I didn't ask to do a reorder or exchange. Fries were good with the ketchup, but the portion is not as big as the ones you get at other similar cafes. We loved the peanut butter french toast since it did taste good with the butter and syrup. Regarding the instant noodles, there's a very small packet of sesame oil on the side, in case you want to make the noodles taste a bit better. We haven't had anything else yet, but our first experience is a very plain one. There's not much to like yet. Perhaps next time, we will try the tomato spaghetti dishes, baked pork chop and rice plates, or the sizzling meat plates. Maybe the hot foods with the sauces would be a much better experience. For now, coming here for a quick morning small bite may not be the best thing here. It depends on your own individual experiences. The white bread was too dry today. read more

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Went here after my flight cause we were craving HK pork chop and rice... and was mildly disappointed It was fresh, but the meat wasn't very thick and the sauce wasn't very tasty. It wasn't bad, but I guess the $14 meal was really too good to be true... Sad bc it had the real classic HK cafe vibe. Fries were good though! read more

Wonton soup was cold and the wonton tasted old!! Chicken over rice was worse than microwave food. Never again. Yucky

Great HK cafe food. Also, they have a great selection of dishes. Loved the baked oxtail spaghetti. Simple comfort food. read more

Great Chinese Hong Kong cafe food and milk tea. Place a little small , about 30 seats.

This place is solid for Hong Kong style cafe shop. They are authentic with great variety of food serving authentic Hong Kong food. Environment: 4 stars Food Quality: 5 Stars Price: 5 Stars Parking: (plenty of parking from the back of the restaurant) Staffs: 5 Stars Highly recommended this place to anyone who wants to experience authentic Hong Kong food. read more

Cafe Orchid - Curry Beef Stew over rice - Chinese Near Me - Millbrae, California

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Got off the plane from SFO and was craving for some hk food and milk tea! Saw this on Yelp and decided to give it a try! It's actually pretty good! Came on a weekday evening. Parked right in their private lot. Got seated right away. Just like all the hk cafes, special menus are posted on the wall. We ordered the sizzling grille, bake porkchop over rice and salted fish fried rice. Everything tasted great and the milk tea is on point! The boss lady was very friendly and chitchat with us for a little bit. Definitely coming back next time! read more

They have a 3-6pm meal deal that includes a coffee or milk tea. Food was typical HK cafe flair and there was a steady stream of customers during non-lunch hour. This place is hidden and I would have missed it had I not did a Yelp search for cafe food. read more

Good food, lots of choices. fast and good service, great place for dining in or quick togo. Have plenty of parking nearby, it's clean and neat. read more

As I've always said, restaurants don't do all dishes well, but those that they have done well. Stick to it. There are 3 dishes that I've always ordered, they are others that they might have done well but I can't help but keep ordering those same one. Curry beef stew - If you like curry, the real sophisticated and flavorfully curry, similar to South East Asia, not Indian curry. Then you must try it. It's actually very similar to curry from Macao. (don't mistaken with Portuguese sauce, 葡汁. Because Portugal doesn't have that and it's not really curry, lack the spice) The famous curry on Macao such as 咖哩文has very flavorful curry. This one imo is as good. What I like about it is I stop ordering Curry beef stew rice but just do the Ala cart and pick up an all curry so I can cook rice at home and enjoy more curry. Baked cutlet pork loin over rice. This is not 焗豬扒飯 but a special called 焗脆口豬柳飯. It's deep fried cutlet without bone. And you can choose your sauce. Standard is the traditional tomatoe sauce. Very good! But they also have very good black pepper sauce. In fact, you can buy black pepper sauce by itself and use it as steak sauce. I used to don't like their milk tea, but I tried it again and it's actually not bad. They put enough condensed milk in it but not enough evaporated milk so it doesn't taste as smooth. The tea flavor is pretty good though. read more

We came here because it was one of the few places open on Christmas Day. It got really crowded pretty quickly, especially since the space inside is pretty small. I thought it seemed pretty clean. The service was pretty terrible - there seemed to only be 1-2 servers for the entire restaurant and they seemed pretty harried. The food took a while to come out and they completely forgot about our drinks and had to be reminded 1-2 times before they brought them out. However, the food itself is really good and cheap as well! I got the fried and baked pork tenderloin over rice ($9.95, one of the specials on the wall and not on the menu). It was awesome. First of all it is huge - two large tender deep fried and then baked pork cutlets over a mountain of fried rice and covered in a tomato sauce. So good. Definitely enough for two people to share. My friend got their Christmas special ($11.50), again off the specials on the wall, which was also very good but less impressive in terms of amount of food. It came with fried fish (really tender), chicken, tomato sauce, and rice. There is a relatively hidden parking lot behind the restaurant that has more spaces than there are out front. read more

Cafe Orchid - Deep fried and baked pork tenderloin over rice ($9.95) - Chinese Near Me - Millbrae, California

Came here on a Sunday afternoon after a long cardio session and beach volleyball session with my friends. I've been hearing about cafe orchids afternoon tea time as well as the Baked Pork Chop dish. As recommended, I order the baked pork chop over fried rice and it did not disappoint at all. I'm not sure how the sauce is made ( maybe tomatoes base sauce?). But it sure tasted delicious with the combination of pork chop and rice at the bottom. The portion is perfect for me but I would say it's on then bigger end. So you can definitely share with someone if you're not looking for a heavy meal. Ambiance: Very casual cafe setting so showing up with shorts and flip flops felt fine. Service was quick and easy. Prices are very fair (only takes cash) and they have so many options on their menu so I'm looking forward to coming back to try more dishes. read more

Excellent bake pork chop rice n Hk milk tea , and many Hong Kong fast food dishes , parking in real of restaurant

Ordered on doordash. Bitch you forgot to add sweetener in my lemon tea. The workers always wear gloves to clean and serve you the food without changing. read more

Cafe Orchid - Lemon tea - Chinese Near Me - Millbrae, California

Good comfort HK tea cafe food. Love the wet beef hor fun, it has some wok hey and all the elements done right. Our 2nd favorite dish is the 菜远牛腩饭. The beef tendon was so soft and gelatinous, and gravy was so good that we drizzled it all over the rice. We also had the baked pork chop rice which tasted ok but nothing to shout about. Will I be back again? For sure! read more

We were looking for an HK cafe. They don't have all the typical dishes like baked pork chop rice or baked seafood spaghetti etc. Howevee their noodle and rice dishes come with generous portions and the service was pretty great for a Chinese restaurant. They did forget noodles with the won ton soup but were quick to correct the mistake and bring noodles in hot broth. The HK milk tea was good too. We never went prior to the remodel but the new place is very clean and new. The high chair was also clean and stylish too. We will be going back again. read more

Owner was super friendly! She even comped us some drinks! Baked Pork Chop: As far as I know, this is the only place that DEEP FRIES their pork chop before baking it. And oh my mommy is it tasty af. That nice crunch you get from the pork chop and the savory red sauce go hand in hand. Definitely a must try if you are a fan of baked pork chops. 5/5!! Meat Sauce and Egg: This one was just whatever (after having that baked pork chop). There isn't enough body to the sauce and the serving is relatively dinky. I've definitely had better at other HK cafes. 3.5/5. If you are looking for a quick bite to eat and cheap pricing and good food then look no further. You will definitely be satisfied. read more

Cafe Orchid - Meat sauce and egg. Meh. - Chinese Near Me - Millbrae, California

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Cash only place. If you're looking for HK style cafe food this is the spot. There's a small parking lot in the back, it is usually busy on the weekends so I suggest calling ahead of time to know the wait time. I went there last time with my friends on a Saturday and there was a long wait, they have a tight space. My go-to is the Portuguese baked pork chops with spaghetti. It is even delicious for to-go also. The pork chop is so tender and flavorful. read more

Cafe Orchid - Chinese Near Me - Millbrae, California

Excellent food and services Price are set reasonable Perfect place to have a quick lunch or dinner with the real HK style food read more

5 stars for making accommodations for my veggie butt, who made the custom request in broken Cantonese. read more

Cafe Orchid - Bartered some hotdogs for some wonton - Chinese Near Me - Millbrae, California

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I'm quite surprised at how much I love this place. I've only gotten takeout from here. I love their chicken wings! Although it is pricey, they are so juicy. They are very generous with the carbs! Their baked rice/spaghetti would last me two+ meals. Don't forget to get the lemon iced tea! One of my favorite HK style cafes! read more