Smile House Cafe 笑臉府

1030 Taraval St, San Francisco - 94116
177 reviews
Chinese Asian Fusion Hong Kong Style Cafe
(415) 682-4006

Beef noodle is quite authentic. Hai nan chicken is tender, though a bit bony. The special rice that come with the chicken could be improved. Bake pork chop is too dry and a bit disappointing.The best of our order was the almond milk. Rich and full of flavor. Milk tea (hot) was pretty good, too. BTW, service is very nice & quick.

Some of the best drinks I’ve had at a low price point, especially in sunset. Wild berry yogurt tastes like iced starburst and guava sprite reminds me of the Asian guava candies I’ve had as a kid. Nostalgic and comforting. The pork bimbap is dry but spam and cheese bimbap slaps.

The chamgpne milk tea is very unique. They come in a ice bucket and it is been chilled by the ice. They have a lot of special meals and my favorite is the teppan rice with beef. They are serve with sizzling iron with raw beef with rice in the center, so you are eating while the beef cooking. Must try if you come to this resturant.

Was pretty good in the past, prior to COVID but this time most dishes very bland; sounds like only the Hainan chicken was a hit of out of a group of 10. not impressive

Order BAKED Portuguese Chicken Rice and baked pork chop rice. The BAKED PORTUGUESE chicken rice came out with a bowl of soup and a box of plain rice. When I went back to the restaurant with the food untouch and ask them for an explanation. The owner said this is what Baked portugese chicken rice is now as this is the best way to eat it. And he completely avoid me asking him why the word BAKED is in there. So we went home, and tried it. And it is the most water down sauce ever with 4 piece of chicken in there. The owner def do not know what baked Portuguese chicken rice is suppose to be. One might wonder how can a place that make atrocities daily like this stay afloat. Ghe baked pork chip rice is dry and sauceless as well. 1/10

I loved this place. Not a ton of Hong Kong style restaurants in the Sunset and this is on point.First, the service was great. Super duper friendly, responsive, and entertaining. Seating is limited because they seat at half capacity to ensure distancing, which is nice!It was lunch rush hour so we had to wait outside while they cleaned tables a while and the server brought us a menu so we could look ahead and checked in with time updates several times.The food was all awesome. We had the beef brisket which was tender and sooo flavorful. The beef tepan fried rice came searing hot and smokey with yummy sauce. Spicy green beans weren't actually spicy but still really good, a nice charred pork flavor. The baked pork chop was a tiny bit sweet for my taste but sooo tender and delicious.We also had some yogurt drinks (strawberry and mango) and a matcha strawberry dessert. The drinks were great, the dessert was better! So nice matcha flavors! Will 100% come again.Also cute cat decor on the counter made me smile.

Ordered black pepper chicken rice, almond tea, and wonton soup noodle. Food is mediocre but happy to have HK food as I miss it so much.Almond tea is delicious - not too sweet but not sure why it is cold because the ordering website said hot. Parking is decently easy to find.

Ordered the shark bone soup rice noodle and it’s fantastic! Best fish soup we have in SF~Milky and tasty, so satisfying!Highly recommended.

Quality food! Ordered the Singaporean Assam Fried Rice and I thought it was fantastic. Not soft and watered down like it was boiled instead of “fried”. Definitely coming back to try other dishes.?

I support this place. Their food is consistent. I bring my family here for a quick meal.They close every other Wednesday. Today is 6/30, they are open so next week 7/7 they will be closed. Staff here says that can’t really fix it with google to change hours every other week. ??‍♀️