Aoyama Cafe - Richmond

Idk why but i keep finding spaghetti in my rice. Not complaining tho cuz it still taste good. Just kinda weirded out. Been coming here for years, would recommend if u want some hongkong style food.

Get the Baked Pork Chop on Rice or Baked Chicken on Rice so tasty! It has a good tomato flavour and a bit of cheese baked into the top. This is probably the most popular item here. I usually order the same thing every time . <br/ <br/ HK style milk tea is also good here as well nice and smooth with strong tea. <br/ <br/ Service: The younger guy taking the orders sometimes seems really grumpy but he's a reasonable guy. Sometimes they get super busy and there are tons of people in line waiting for their food make sure you get a order number and wait by the counter so your order doesn't get missed!

Located inside the Aberdeen Centre Food Court, Mambo Cafe is a food stall serving Hong Kong-style cafe dishes.  This year, they are nominated for a Chinese Restaurant Award for Best Food Court Stall.  I have tried a few of Mambo Cafe’s offerings and in this post I will share with you my thoughts on them.

Got the baked portugese chicken, in the foodcourt of aberdeen : i do think aberdeen got the best foodcourt in vancouver no doubt, and for the food, the price is definitely worth the taste and portion. the chicken is tender and juicy and as for the baked sauce, it's delicious, it's more on the fusion of asian and portugese, it's definitely you can taste that it's trying to be european but using asian ingredients and cooking skill, which fused really well, not too overwhelming and definitely not bland at all. <br/ <br/ overall i would come back again and order food from this place again :

Hong Kong food is odd. When in doubt at a mall food court, it's always good to eyeball the eateries to see which one has the biggest crowds in front. This can be a good thing they're the most popular for a reason. Or it can be bad they're so slow that customers are backed up. I reckon Mambo Cafe is in the first category. It's got a diverse menu no scooping out standardized dishes from tureens on a steam table. I could see the staff in the kitchen space behind the register cranking out everything as it was ordered.<br/ <br/ I chose the baked pork chop and chicken with rice. Wow was there a lot of rice, under some gloopy orange/brown gravy that had no flavour. There must have been half a kilo of rice by weight. I could only eat about half. Somewhere in Darfur a child just starved to death, and I'm dumping enough food to keep that kid alive for two days. Shameful! The chicken and pork chop were cooked OK, not overdone. They tasted oily from the grill's grease, but not from any spices. The pork chop was speckled with fatty bits, but hey, pigs are fat. There was a decent amount of meat overall for an $8 dish.<br/ <br/ There is SO much I don't know about the regional styles of Chinese food. I glom Cantonese and Szechuan, but before I immigrated to Vancouver, I didn't know Hong Kong had its own food vibe. They don't go for strong spicy flavours there, do they? From what I've read about HK style, it seems like a mash up between Cantonese and what you'd get from the lunchroom lady at an English boarding school. Like the tiny pile of succotash at one corner of the Styrofoam container my food came in. This corn carrot pea combo was bilious boiled stuff when the lunch ladies used to ladle it out in my elementary school four decades ago. The bite I had from what I got at Mambo was just as awful. Maybe I wasn't supposed to eat it it was just there to add a splash of colour. I will have to research more HK cuisine with my mouth AND eyes.