i-Tea Cafe in Irvine

A Taiwanese style cafe that serves food. Apart eat in area, they also have a counter for take out, which seem to be very popular. Some of the menu were handwritten on paper and sticked to wall. We ordered 2x special menu, both served with free drinks. Food was pretty good, two people for $23. The seating was slightly cramped though.

Koko Cafe (可口港式西餐) in Irvine

This is one of the few Hong Kong style cafe in Orange County. It opens between 11am and 11pm daily, located opposite to the Irvine Valley College, seats around 60+ customers. We came here for lunch. They served soup as part of meal order. We ordered baked seafood in creamy sauce and Singaporean fried rice noodle. The food was pretty good. Two people for $21 with drinks.

Marie Callender's Restaurant & Bakery

They have a $10.99 special on Shepherd's pie or Chicken pot pie that comes with caesar salad and a slice of marie's pie as desert. We ordered one each. They also served us warm corn bread as starter. The shepherd's pie was not authentic as they don't use mince beef and there was no pastry on top. Pastry crust on the chicken pot pie was thick and dried. Rather disappointing. Then we ordered apple pie and double cream blueberry pie. That redeem itself. Overall, a place supposes to be famous for pies (according to advert), it ain't so. Two people for $30, not worth the price and won't be coming back.

City Cafe (都市美食) in Monterey Park

Another Hong Kong style cafe in Monterey Park, very similar to 'Harbor Kitchen'. New and spacious with wall-mounted flat screen TVs in the premise. Parking is at the back. Food was okay, nothing special, reasonable pricing. Around $8 a dish. We had Korean marinated T-bone beef (not enough favor), baked seafood rice (creamy and nice) and beef brisket. All dishes came with a choice of spaghetti or rice.

JJ Cafe in Monterey Park

A Hong Kong style cafe in the main street of Monterey Park. The portion was big and we barely managed to finish the dishes. Parking is at the back. Reasonably priced and service was quick too. I prefer this restaurant than Harbor Kitchen.

Daphne's Greek Cafe in Irvine

First time we tried this little Greek cafe restaurant. The food was tasty and the price wasn't expensive. I had burger, which wasn't like your regular American burger. The fresh fries was freshly made. $20 dollars for 2 people ain't bad.

Tea Station Alhambra

Tea Station is a chain cafe/restaurant. We came here today for a late lunch. The food was surprisingly good as we weren't expecting that at a tea house. We ordered shredded beef noodles and fried fish fillet with rice. From the long list of tea on the menu, we chose Taro milk tea. The tea was yummy! We will definitely come back to try other types of tea. Service was rather slow though. Still highly recommended.

Harbor Kitchen in Alhambra

A Hong Kong style cafe in Alhambra. Loads of dishes to choose from. After 3pm, they serve afternoon tea menu, which is much cheaper. But we were there before 3pm. We ordered shredded pork rice noodle and Japanese grilled unagi rice today, but they were not as good as the other dishes we had before. Disappointment.