Streats Hong Kong Cafe

Quite a number of increasing choices for us to get Halal Hong Kong-Chinese cuisine and this of course includes something we all love – Dim Sum!!

So I discovered this place called Streats Hong Kong Cafe at Downtown East.
At first I didn’t realize it was Halal but a closer look shows the Halal logo displayed proudly in the front.
And they seem to really be trying to keep to the kind of Hong Kong cafe we see elsewhere BUT this one is Halal of course.

Fried Pumpkin with Salted Egg Yolk ($3.80)

So for appetizers we started with the pumpkin.
We did this for one simple reason – anything with salted egg yolk MUST be good right?

As far as appetizers go, this is a winner.
The pumpkin is light and preps you for the meal ahead and you can taste the salted egg.
But in my opinion, there can never be enough salted egg yolk and this one seemed a little light on the yolk.

And now for the mains!

Famous HK Fried Beef Hor Fun ($8.50)

Firstly, it’s not as oily as it looks…

You can have either the gravy version or the dry version. Above is the latter.
But I should also mention that we requested that we asked for it to be “extra black” with the intention of it having extra black sweet sauce added when cooking. And we also asked for it to be “extra spicy” but the server told us that this meant they would give us a side dish of sambal meaning they could not add the sambal when frying. Isn’t that weird?

Anyways my darling wife didn’t really like the kway teow used. It was kinda extra thin so it didn’t really have a texture we were used to. Perhaps this is also the reason why the taste wasn’t so strong.
It was as if either the sweet sauce they used wasn’t that sweet OR the kway teow didn’t really take the flavour in when cooking. In fact, the only specific taste we could identify was saltiness.

But on the plus side – the beef was actually pretty tender.
But I’m kinda questioning the high price though. I mean, it wasn’t even that big of a serving…

Nissin Noodles with Chicken Luncheon Meat & Fried Egg ($7.20)

I have this thing about Hong Kong noodles ever since I saw those old Jackie Chan kung-fu movies and also the newer HK mahjong comedies. There would always be this big bowl of noodles with meat and sometimes soup and veggies. Love it.

Even though it’s the instant Nissin noodles (which I guess is the HK style) it’s actually a pretty decent noodle.
Top it off with chicken luncheon meat (my favourite!!) and we have a winner. I guess it’s the salty edge of the luncheon meat which I (and others I suppose) love so much. Finish it off with some kai lan and a fried egg and we’re all set. If you’re lucky, the yolk of the egg is cooked just nicely that the yolk is fluid enough to mix in with your noodles… YUMMY!

But after all that, I face an obvious fact – you can just make this at home!
PS you can have the dry (above) or the soup version for this as well.

Salty Plum Soda & Iced Honey Lemon ($3.80 each)

In the true HK style, some of the drinks are served in those thick glasses you see above.
This includes the coffees and teas as well.

It’s quite a nice touch actually. But unfortunately that’s about all that’s nice about them…
The sour plum was a little bit TOO sour even though it was just two sour plums in soda water.
And the Iced Honey Lemon? It’s just some honey and two slices of lemon in iced water.
Tasteless.

Adam’s Verdict:
Pumpkin with Salted Egg Yolk 2.5/5 — Noodles with Chicken Luncheon Meat & Fried Egg 3/5
Iced Honey Lemon 1/5

Maryah’s Verdict:
Pumpkin with Salted Egg Yolk 2/5 — Famous HK Fried Beef Hor Fun 1/5 — Sour Plum Soda 1/5

I actually like Streats. Most likely because it’s so close my house.
You Korea-mania fans will be happy to know that they have a TV playing K-Pop music videos.
I’ll probably go back there. For the Dim Sum menu. Not the K-Pop.