S & E Cafe

Tasty Cantonese food spot on 19th and Taraval! We ordered the Hong Kong style rice rolls (delicious starter!), salt & pepper pork chops, dry beef chow fun, salted fish & chicken fried rice and chicken with butter melon for takeout. Everything was flavorful and everyone enjoyed the meal! Ordering was easy and server was friendly; the food was ready in good time. Additional tip--this restaurant can also make catering-type of orders for large groups of people.

4/5 for the rib eye steak. Don't come here for anything else. I'd much prefer cafe bakery for the rice and pasta dishes.

S & E Cafe recently reopened for indoor dining about one month ago. Hooray! I'm happy to see we've turned a corner as they were closed for indoor dining for over two years. Regulars will notice there are slight changes to the menu. I had the runny egg seafood crispy noodles $17 and a ice milk tea $3.50. With fish pieces, runny egg, scallops and shrimps, this was great. The crispy noodles stayed crispy because the chef didn't put too much gravy. Good job everyone at S & E Cafe.

I got an order of chow mein here yesterday that was so disgusting I threw the whole thing out! It cost $18 and tasted like dirt!!

Really want to love this place because the staff and owner are always so nice and food is pretty good but...just a couple things could be better.The Chinese borscht soup is my absolute favorite at HK cafes but they make it SO sweet here. Cut the sweetness down and it would've been perfect. It is a pity that meals here don't come as sets like in HK cafes that I'm used to. Soups and milk teas have to be ordered and charged separately. Their complimentary soup of the day is only available late in the afternoon "whenever it is ready." lol My go-to baked seafood rice has a GENEROUS amount and variety of seafood in it compared to other cafes: squid, shrimp, scallop, tilapia AND salmon. Two thumbs up. You can choose red or white sauce.Baked pork chop with red sauce and baked Portuguese chicken are both good as well. Comes with rice or spaghetti.I have to say the milk tea is only so-so, not as smooth as I would like despite that they use condensed milk as the sweetener.I was intrigued by the HK rice rolls as seen on TV. I like the sweet and peanut sauce but they're really just plain rice rolls. At least I can say I've tried it, right?

I have tried s&e prior to covid. And they were always busy and packed. Usually every table was full of customers and even lines waiting outside.But since covid they have had limited seating but now the restaurant has not open up for any seating. I loved their steak, but the price was a bit pricey for a Cafe. But they have specials for senior. The senior discount meals allow you to select an entree and a drink or desert. But they changed the rules. Since their is no dine in they say their is no desert or drinks included in the senior meals.They have a variety of items to offer such as chicken wings, steak, fish, noodles and fried rice.For the senior meals you can choose fish and spanich noodles ot fish and spanich rice. They also offer fish and tomato noodles or fish and tomato rice. The fish and tomato rice is delicious and so flavorful. I tried the fish and tomato noodles. The tomato sauce is really flavorful but the noodles did not absorb the sauce well enough. I think the rice soaked up more. And wad amazing.My mom ordered the pineapple fried rice, it was a bit cold but when we re heat the rice it was delicious and juicy. But for the price they don't give a lot of pieces of pineapple and chicken. But still delicious for what it is. But I definitely want to try other items. Especially when the re open for dine in.

COVID review3.5 starGood service! The host helped us with order choices and suggestions. For credit card orders they charge a fee.Tried crispy noodle with sauce, mixed steak with spaghetti and beef tongue with instant noodle stir fry. Crispy noodle and mixed steak both had good portions. As for the Instant noodle with beef tongue, I like the noodle's dry texture with flavor but the beef tongue could use a stronger flavor. All and all we like it and the menu have lots of choices.

I love the owner here. He's the best! Seniors get a cheap $8.50 meal after a $4 application fee.I personally got a Mongolian beef over rice for my brother and it cost about $15 dollars. Worth every penny because we ate here growing up. Recommend this establishment with my utmost respect.Hope they get tons of new business here!

Do not order the $10 special, even hv the the senior/Champss, very small potion n soupy.The owner / mgr not friendly, not helpful,phone kept ringing, don't border to answer, only I person / lady do all the work , her service was very good.

I typically ordered a Macanese pork cutlet and baked beef tongue rice. The deep fried pork cutlet is superb, like the standard in Hong Kong cafe. Never disappointed. The sauce is just right and not starchy. This time, I ordered the fried beef noodle. It's very flavourful with chive and sprout. Definitely, this cafe is underated. I did go to other HK Cafes in the area but their food is not even up to the restaurant standard in Hong Kong.