Best kept secret in Ottawa Chinatown!This little gem is one of our favourite restaurants in town. It serves Hong Kong style comfort food, like congee, soup noodles, and dim sum.The food is consistently good, quick service, but no credit cards accepted, cash or Interac only. The place is almost always packed.Some of my favourite dishes include seafood congee with thousand years eggs, steamed black-bean ribs, beef shank flat rice noodles, fried dough in rice paper wrapping (炸凉, French toast and a Hong Kong style milk tea to die for!Its washrooms are quite unique, everything in the washroom is automated, including a rotating toilet seat, and a garbage bin that opens with a swipe of hand.
Cafe Orient serves Hong Kong style Chinese food. I've been coming here for years. I really do enjoy their wide selection of dishes to try from. I have many pictures but not sure where the rest are but I'll update with more pictures since I know I will be back.Plenty of parking, normally don't have to wait as they have enough tables from my experience.They also serve dim sum here. I have too many favourite dishes so I would recommend you to try everything on the menu once and see what you like.
This place has truly the best Cantonese food that you can get in Ottawa. Consistenly authentic, flavourful, satisfying, and overall just delicious. We have been going here at least bi-weekly since before I was born (well over 20 years) and it really never fails.Must try: efu noodles, ma po tofu, and beef tendon if you like that. Really any dish is a win.
With all respect take out we ordered wasn’t tasty at all. We had 4 means. Plain, flavorless, greasy
Wouldn't say it's the most amazing HK food I've tasted - 3.5 stars at best. The baked pork chop rice is lacking tomato and pineapple chunks, and the portuguese chicken rice is quite bland without carrot and potato chunks. And the sauce is way too gooey (prob a lot of corn starch) without any tumeric and coconut flavour. I'm not being officious, it's just how it is served in many cha chaan tengs and even fast food restaurants in Hong Kong.
The best Hong Kong style Chinese food in Ottawa. I love it so much! Every dish taste good.
Always good food at Cafe Orient.I’ve dined at Cafe Orient multiple times.Their shanghai dumpling is a must have, along with some other dim sums!Their fish fillet with creamy corn was very delicious, I would recommend to others.
The menu is so huge & confusing we literally could not make heads or tails of it. However, having stumbled on the place hungry, we persevered, explaining our confusion to the proprieter. No problem. We listed off items we wanted - she said yea or nay & asked about preferences in meat, veg & heat, essentially ordering for us. What a good decision. 20 minutes later we walked out with some of the tastiest hong kong style we've found in Ottawa. The beef w/greens was oh so tender & properly, lightly stir fried. The hot & sour soup was beautifully balanced - the best we've had anywhere in years. Generous, family sized portions, tons of shrimp in the rice, fresh veg, well seared pork & attention to complex, layererd spicing throughout. Frankly, it looked like a hole in the wall & we expected very little - hoping for edible at least. What we carried out was excellent fare. Every one of the 8 varied dishes we ordered were perfectly done. Highly recommend.
It's one of those hidden gem places where you don't want people to know about. For Asian cuisine, my husband and I order from here and they consistently serve great quality of food in a timely manner. They have a huge menu and everything we've ordered so far has not let us down. Thanks for keeping up the good work! :)
I had been looking for a Hong Kong style restaurant in Ottawa, and this comes pretty close. Lots of good menu options. Food was tasty and prices reasonable.