Sugar Sweet Cafe

Reviews

• Alex T.

  star star star star star_border 11 June 2026

  Pros:
  Great portions
  Food prepared well
  
  Cons:
  Non booth seats are tight
  
  Been to Sugar Sweet Cafe in the past but keep forgetting to review this place.  Sugar Sweet is another quintessential HK style cafe.  The food is good, the prices are fair and the portions are great.
  
  Located in a small plaza with an independent gas station, it's unassuming and pretty well known among the locals of the area.  This place is super busy during peak times.  Expect to wait a little if you come in at that time.  
  
  Sugar Sweet fits as many tables and booths as it possibly can into its location.  The booths are fine space wise.  If your sitting at the tables though, expect to be crammed a little bit.  The aisles are also a tight fit and with the servers flying all over the place, it can get pretty crazy.
  
  Sugar Sweet has a pretty extensive menu to pick from.  They have everything you would expect at a HK style cafe.  They have multiple specials throughout the day that come with an entree, soup and a drink.  These specials are priced very well if you ask me.  There are multiple specials to choose from under $10.  
  
  As you can see from my pictures, we got 3 entrees during our visit.  My pork entree with Portuguese sauce on rice was great.  The sauce was done really well.  When it comes to HK style cafes, you can't tell a curry from a Portuguese sauce.  It almost looks the same.  The Portuguese sauce should be much lighter in colour from a curry.  This place got it right and it was down right tasty.  My wife's baked spaghetti was also done very well.  Presentation was excellent as well.
  
  The portion sizes here are great for what you pay.  It's been like this for as long as I can remember.  There was another patron sitting at a table beside me who got a rice dish.  His dish was enormous.  You get good value here.  Also, I notice the cups they use for their cold drinks here are larger than usual.  You win everywhere here.
  
  Sugar Sweet has always been one of my favourite spots in the city.  Surprised it's taken me this long to review it.  It could use a bit more space but other than that, it's an awesome spot for your HK style cafe needs!

• Nathan A.

  star star star star_border star_border 4 June 2026

  Haven't been here in a long time, but glad to see the food is still the same. Like any good HK cafe, the service will be iffy and sarcastic, but people will come back anyway.
  
  Ordered the Baked Pork Chop Rice. Can't go wrong with this classic. Nicely baked, with some melted cheese on top. The pock chop is tasty, but maybe a little fatty. There's a good amount of the tomato sauce and a decent fried rice underneath.
  
  Milk tea here is not bad either.

• Gary L.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 1 June 2026

  A decent asian cafe for food, although the prices have increased quite a bit over the years. The food is good with a great selection of food
  The breakfast is pretty cheap as well with a good portion although when it does get busy you can find an odd extra noodle or something in your soup broth.
  Overall a good place for a quick meal although it can be quite busy sometimes where the servers can forget about you from time to time

• Precilla C.

  star star star star star_border 26 May 2026

  I literally grew up beside this place, and my love for it is still going strong, years and years later. This is your typical HK cafe- cheap delicious food that comes in large portions. One of my fav is the pork chop baked rice with tomato sauce. This place does get fairly busy but turnover is pretty quick. It's a great option for a quick breakfast or lunch if you're in the area! I would highly recommend.

• Priscilla W.

  star star star star_border star_border 17 May 2026

  3.5* because we found a piece of hair in one of our dishes!
  
  This cafe is located in a tiny plaza with the gas station and some dessert/bakery shops. There is a good amount of parking in this plaza here but I can see it getting packed in the evening. There's definitely parking nearby on residential streets if you really can't find parking.
  
  It was quite full when we went there on a Wednesday afternoon at 1pm, but luckily, we were able to get a seat right away. The people there were very fast as they came over expecting to take our orders right away, though we definitely needed a lot of time as there were just a lot of menus to browse through (e.g., Christmas/New Years specials, lunch special, breakfast specials, regular menu).
  
  We ordered two dishes from the lunch special menu to share that day:
  1) Based pork chop w/ Tomato Sauce & Cheese ($8.50): It was delicious! It wasn't salty at all and I liked that it was a little sour from the tomato sauce. The pork chop was great and tender. The hot milk tea that came with the combo was more on the tea side and did not have enough milk. The black tea was strong! The Russian Borscht was quite sour which I loved!
  
  2) Baked chicken with cream sauce ($7.99): It came out very nice but when we started to dig in, we found a piece of hair in it!! We quickly called the waitress over. She apologized and told us to pick another dish. EWWW!
  
  3) We ordered baked fish fillet with cream sauce ($8.99) after the hair incident. The dish came out piping hot. But what shocked me was that the fillet was quite thick! It was lightly coated with breadcrumbs, drowned in cream and cheesy sauce. Overall, this dish was alright mainly because there wasn't much taste to the sauce. We asked for the chinese soup to come with this dish and it was VERY good. I don't usually drink Chinese soup but this one tasted very nutritious and I loved that it came out super hot!
  
  The portion size is quite large, so be prepared to pack some home!
  
  Overall the service was good - just like any HK style cafes in the area. They were fast (probably because they want to get customers in and out of the restaurants as fast as possible) and they didn't feel bothered when we asked for the dish to be changed. Before we left, the same waitress apologized for the piece of hair once more which I appreciated. Everyone makes mistakes but I liked that owned up to their mistake.