[Review 5454] Feel at home @ 大家樂 Café de Coral

09/09/2016
大家樂  Café de Coral
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心2期UG樓UG033號舖
Shop UG033, UG/F, Metro City Plaza, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/feel-at-home-e2644389

There wasn't much to choose from so chose the fresh tomato and beef dish. 
It was surprisingly good except the tomato sauce had too much sugar in it.

The beef slices were thin and lean.
It is nice that people can feel at home dining at Cafe de coral!

[Review 5330] A waste of money @ 大家樂 Café de Coral

11/06/2016
大家樂 Café de Coral
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心2期UG樓UG033號舖
Shop UG033, UG/F, Metro City Plaza, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/a-waste-of-money-e2600683

A waste of money
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Got this set as I love roast chicken but I didn't have any expectations because of the price and that fact that this is CDC.
The pasta was too soft and tasteless while the sauce was lacking a beefy and tomato taste.
The sweet potatoes are nice and shriveled up compared to the picture.
I wish they were potatoes but Chinese people don't eat spuds.

The star of the show was the worst because the chicken was stiff, dry and too salty that I wonder how long it has been frozen since it was slaughtered.



You can tell that it had been frozen since the ice ages because the bones and chicken meat have gone grey.

There were two corn cobbs as well but evidently frozen ones.

[Review 5036] $53 deal @ 大家樂 Café de Coral

10/02/2016
大家樂  Café de Coral
油麻地友翔道1號中港薈高層地下UG22號舖
Shop UG22, UG/F., Coronation Circle, 1 Yau Cheung Road, Yau Ma Tei
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/53-deal-e2542477


Café de Coral is always overpriced in my opinion because you have to collect the food yourself.
The food portion is big but the ingredients are inexpensive.
Anyway, I had the omelette with roast pork and shitaake mushrooms with vegetarian sharks fin soup and Chinese tea.
The omelette was actually ok because the roast pork was fresh and soft but a little bit too sweet for my liking, however the mushrooms didn't quite match because the texture of it is different to Western mushrooms.
As for the vegetarian sharks fin soup, it was big and decent with lots of bamboo piths in it and it wasn't overly salty or laced with MSG.
The only thing I didn't like were the fake crabmeat and pieces of pork which downgraded it.

I am not sure if you get to choose the Chinese tea but I was given pu erh which tastes like MUD.

[Reviwe 4784] chicken bone feast @ 大家樂 Café de Coral

07/11/2015
大家樂  Café de Coral
中環干諾道34-37號華懋大廈地庫及1樓
UG-1/F, Chinachem Tower, 34-37 Connaught Road, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/chicken-bone-feast-e2510188

I was attracted by the CDC product shot of this golden yellow chicken oil rice with Hainan style chicken but reality didn't turn out that way.
It was weird that it was sprinkled with sesame because there isn't supposed to be sesame on it.

The chicken was just skin and bones.
As well as the skin and bones, the texture was hard like it had rigor mortis!
The rice was the worst because it was white and smelly, not yellow as shown on the product shot.
The remains of the chicken!

[Review 4688] Caribbean curry at Café De Coral @ 大家樂 Café de Coral

29/09/2015
大家樂  Café de Coral
將軍澳唐德街1號將軍澳廣場商場一樓1009-1013號
1009-1013, 1/F, Tseung Kwan O Plaza, Tong Tak Street, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/caribbean-curry-at-cafe-de-coral-e2496227

There was not much on offer for lunch so I went for the
vegetarian curry which was called Carribeanian Style veggie curry with rice.
I wonder if the spelling was deliberate because it was in Chinese it is mixed bean curry.

In the box I found some green beans and pineapples, the pineapples were obviously going to be there because pineapples are associated with anything tropical like Hawaii and the Caribbean.

Anyway, there was a good mix of chickpeas and kidney beans but the curry was too salty and not authentic Caribbean.

[Review 1806] BBQ roast pork with rice @ Café de Coral

27/09/2012
大家樂 Café de Coral
屯門屯隆街1號錦薈坊2樓201-203號
Shop 201-203, Level 2, K-Point, 1 Tuen Lung Street, Tuen Mun
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/bbq-roast-pork-with-rice-cafe-de-coral-e2260298

Went during the afternoon hours and was fairly hungry so I did not order the hotdog sets, I ordered the BBQ roast pork with rice.
When it came the portion was quite generous, especially the rice.
If the pork had not been so fatty it would have been perfect.
The sauce and oil made it too sweet and greasy.

[Review 887] Roast @ 大家樂 Café de Coral

22/10/2010

大家樂  Café de Coral
北角英皇道250號北角城中心地下
G/F, Fortress Tower, 250 King's Road, North Point
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/roast-cdc-e2125399

Its always a headache going to Café coral for food, the menu is very confusing and hard to order, and the stuff is a bit too local for me.

You just don’t know what to expect with local food, in the end I picked the simplest dish I could find, chicken leg with rice.
When I ordered, there was a confusion that it may be a piece of fried chicken, in the end it was chicken marinated in soy sauce and roasted.

It was presented a like a western roast served with gravy.

There were French beans on the side for decoration, the rice was too soft and the grains of rice not that distinct.
The chicken was a bit tough, hard and dry for a chicken leg, and the best thing of the dish was the gravy.

[Review 544] Its fusion not western breakfast @ 大家樂 Café de Coral

大家樂 Café de Coral
23/11/2009
灣仔皇后大道東213號胡忠大廈2樓 2/F, Wu Chung House, 213 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/its-fusion-not-western-breakfast-e2045035

I never have any expectations for Café de coral, their interior and logo is 1960s and glum, and their menu is super confusing too!

I only paid it a visit because I wanted to try the Hokkaido egg breakfast, the set includes a fish fillet, choice of toast or Chinese carrot cake and freshly brewed coffee.

The other breakfast set with the fish was supposed to look western, but I thought it was Chinese, especially the luncheon meat and carrot cake, very chinesy indeed, it’s a bit hard to find Luncheon meat for breakfast in Europe.

The sauce that came was the fish was totally Chinesey too, it was tartar sauce, but the base of the sauce was sweet, even McDonalds tartar sauce is more authentic.
The fish tasted nice on its own without the sauce.
The egg with hokkaido milk just had an extra buttery and milk aroma to it.

The congee was ok, the oysters could be tasted, however the pork was not fresh, so it ruins the taste of the congee.

[Review 429] Afternoon tea set @ Cafe De Coral 大家樂 (紅磡)

Cafe De Coral 大家樂 (紅磡) 21/09/2009
紅磡黃埔天地百合苑商場(第9期)地下G11號舖
Shop G11, G/F, Lily Mansions (Site 9), The Whampoa, Hung Hom
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/afternoon-tea-set-e2030968

Sat down here for afternoon tea after a tiring hot day, too tired and lazy to be bothered to go anywhere else. Ordered two sets, roast pork with rice, and pork chop bun with macaroni.

The roast pork rice was piping hot, the sauce was more like sticky gel, but as I was hungry, it all tasted good.
The pork chop in the bun was rather small, but the bun itself was good, crusty chewy bun.
The macaroni was disappointing though, very bland, and tasted like aeroplane food.

[Review 326] Early dinner/afternoon tea @大家樂 Cafe De Coral

07/07/2009 大家樂 Cafe De Coral
灣仔駱克道151號1樓
1/F, 151 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/early-dinner-afternoon-tea-e2010081

Ordered a mini roast pork with rice, including HK style tea, and also ordered a lettuce and fish soup.

The tea I gave away, and the rice was nice and soft, and the roast pork was not too fat or lean, with enough soy sauce.

The soup, had bits of lettuce and fish patty, the advantage having it here, is that it is more hygienic than the one served in the congested streets.