Hong Kong Café

Consistently good food, reasonable prices, quick service. It’s sometimes awkward vibes, but totally fine for good Chinese takeout (which I opt for most of the time). Top picks are the egg foo young and the chow fun noodles. Gotta love it.

I heard about this restaurant on Unilocal and I had to try it. I heard the wonton soup was mad good. I went to the restaurant and the wonton soup is so good I order another one. The customer service is very friendly. The other foods are good too. Especially the tofu.

Every time I need «good old Hong Kong style comfort food» I visit this little place. True Chinese style cooking, nothing «Americanized»

This place is really good for authentic Chinese food. Huge portions… was enough to take another meal back home! Highly recommended!

if you have a craving for chinese, it’s a decent place, but my recent experience here…
i had a mongolian beef dish to go, and the extra ingredients accompanying the dish came in a baggy, expecting me to do a DIY situation — unacceptable. food was kinda cold too.

Came back after a few years and ordered the beef chow fun. It was very good and had a lot of beef. The hot and sour soup was excellent. This is probably the best Chinese restaurant in Chicago cooking traditional Cantonese café style dishes.

If you’re looking for a quick lunch (and I was!), this is a great pick. I was in and out of there in roughly 20 minutes. Soup came, then the appetizer, then the entrée, then the check — all within 10 minutes time. Put my debit card down and zing was out of there as soon a moment after I finished. So I was happy with that — picked the place over the burger place next door speculating the burger place might take longer — I was probably right about that.
As for the food though, honestly it was so/​so. Chicken noodle soup was like a miso with thin rice noodles and some chicken — ok. Eggroll was good, but the hot mustard had a heavier than usual vinegar taste to it — I had to scrape some off. Mongolian beef was ok — I’ve had better and worse. Came with fried rice which seemed a little dry — would have preferred steamed rice but wasn’t asked, and didn’t think to ask myself.
Value was decent — soda is in cans and are not bottomless — $ 1.25 each. My tab was $ 10.50 plus a $ 2 tip — easy to digest. Looks like they do have some authentic dishes available — don’t see too many places with a variety of congee — but they’ve got it. Would try again if in area looking for fast Chinese food. Though Chef Ping’s and Yu’s would get the nod if looking for more flavor.

Really good food. Reasonably priced. We had the beef and broccoli and BBQ pork chow mein (crunchy noodles!). Highly recommend!

Egg rolls a little small, but other than that it’s GREAT! Been coming here for years.

Awesome food and great service! You can never go wrong with Hong Kong Restaurant. Everything here is the best and very flavorful.
Highly recommend!

Food was very good. Didn’t like that they use plastic cups and plastic, dessert sized plates, hence the 3 stars. They should switch to glassware, which is more appropriate and sanitary for a restaurant. The service could use a change as well. The Chinatown attitude just doesn’t work well in the suburbs. I believe this is how Jockey Wok n’ Rolls went out of business. Customer service is everything, no matter how good the food is.

Food was good but the service was horrible. The waitresses were unprofessional and wore slippers.

this is one of my favorite restaurants ever. they do all sorts of dishes i’ve never had anywhere else. my favorites are the entrees with bitter melon – bitter melon is really good for me as im diabetic, but preparing it at home is a huge pain. i’ve literally never seen bitter melon served anywhere else, and the dishes they put it in are really delicious. it *is* an acquired taste though and i’ve always felt that bitterness is an underutilized flavor, so keep that in mind if you try it. my other favorites are all their congees – the consistency is perfect! i want to try the congee with preserved egg next. the rice plates are great too, i tried the bbq pork + roast duck recently.
their egg rolls are great, everything’s honestly really good. but they aren’t exactly the deep-​fried junky Americanized Chinese food specialists – definitely eat here if you’re looking to try something new and painstakingly prepared. the prices are a huge bargain, especially for all the labor that goes into what they’re serving (seriously, get on that congee).

Wonderful Cantonese food. If they had dim sum, it would put this place over the top. Small but food is always fresh. Wait staff is ok, but this place is usually busy so have some compassion for them
All in all a great place for some Hong Kong fast food.

This is the bomb. Will go back again…
For our first time, we ordered the cha siu pork w/​roasted duck, steamed fish and singapore style daikon cake. They are all super tasty and the price is good for what they’re offering.
Milk tea is the taste that we look for as well… all in all, great experience.

We have been here many times in the past but this was the worst experience last Saturday.
We had lunch there at late noon. It was not busy. When we stepped in, a waitress from distance pointed us to a table. No greeting at all. No response when I said hello to her. When the dishes were served on our table, she sent us the check, wanting us to eat fast?!
During the whole period, we were totally ignored. No one looked at our table and never refilled our water when our glasses were empty.
If you only want to feed your stomach, this could be a good place. But if you expect at least average service and be respected, good luck!

We got fried rice noodles with beef and it is the best I ever had (including most of places in Chinatown). The thousand year egg with pork congee was just okay. We also got the hot Hong Kong style tea with cream which came surprisingly bitter (maybe that’s the last cup of tea in the pot?)
Family style dining atmosphere and the wait isn’t bad.

I’ve been coming to Hong Kong Café ever since my brother introduced me a few months ago. The food is really authentic and very well priced. Everything I have had there has been really great — salt and spicy pork, mongolian beef, chow fun noodles with beef/​broccoli (I do ask for gravy, the one without gravy is a bit bland), wonton noodle soup, beef fried rice, and their egg rolls are awesome (they are an add on to their lunch specials).
My husband loves their fried rice (he would call himself a friend rice connoisseur so that’s a high rating for him). He also enjoys their chow fun, you can’t get it the way they make anywhere else in the suburbs.
Their wonton noodle soup definitely hits the spot when it’s cold and snowy out. I did get the beef noodle soup once and felt that there was too much fatty beef parts that I didn’t enjoy as much.
Their lunch specials are a great deal and can feed you with some leftovers for dinner. Also if you want to go during lunch, they get quite busy and it may be hard to find a spot. Definitely worth taking out if you really want good Chinese food.

Fast service clean friendly. Lunch menu is limited but will come back and try dinner. Lots of veggies in Kung Poa shrimp. Onion is cooked nicely. Shrimp is cooked perfect. Good portions.

Since I wrote my earlier review we’ve been back to Hong Kong Café several times. We’ve only done take-​out so far — really need to eat there to get the full experience.
We ordered and were told it would be about 20 minutes. So, we waited a few, then went to go pick it up. It was not ready when we arrived, and they were very apologetic. They had several large parties, and it is a fairly small place, so we understood. They seated us at a table to wait. While waiting, we watched people around us, and saw lots of different foods we want to try.
In particular, there was a fabulous looking dish I had to ask about. They explained it was a full fried chicken which you have to order a day in advance — next time. There was also a bitter melon omelet that looked fantastic.
What we ordered turned out to be great too. The Sweet and Sour soup was among the best I’ve had. Together, we ordered the soup, chicken and Chinese broccoli, Hot and Spicy Chicken and Vegetables and Bitter Melon and Pork Ribs in Casserole. Because we had to wait a short time, they gave us a Pork Fried Rice for our trouble. So nie of them. Because, the fried rice was outstanding.
So, next time, we order the whole fried chicken a day before we go, and we will dine in rather than carry out.

Hong Kong Café is a very unique Chinese restaurant. It is not a fine dining place and it is not exclusively a take out place. Hong Kong is in between the two and a little bit of both. Of course they do have take out as an option but during the lunch hour many people come to eat in. The set up is simple with basic chairs and tables that seat four to six people per group.
Upon arrival you are offered green tea and hot and sour soup. Both are excellent and slightly unexpected given the simplicity the restaurants atmosphere conveys. Again, the interior décor and set up of this place you would expect your food to come in Chinese take out box but Hong Kong Café is far from that. The menu is extensive and the dishes are exceptional. You can gather this from the authenticity of the menu items as well from the majority Chinese patrons that frequent this location.
I had the Chinese Curry Supreme which comes with chicken, beef, and shrimp. It was excellent and filling. Hong Kong Café is popular among the coworkers so I hope to come back again so I can try some other things on the menu.