Golden Oscar Cafe is decorated with movie posters for the Hollywood theme.  They are famous for having pretty large dishes.  Their food ranges from $8 to $10+.  I think that this HK style cafe has higher prices than most places.  But it makes sense because they give you larger plates of food.  We were pretty hungry and decided to order two combos.  We had the curry beef with rice and the seafood pasta.  Both combos came with a creamy corn soup and a drink.  The most common HK style drinks are: milk tea, coffee, lemon tea and honey lemon tea/water.  Golden Oscar Cafe charges you an extra $1 for cold drinks.  As well, they serve the syrup for the cold drink separately so you have to add it in yourself

The seafood pasta was a big flop.  The noodles were over cooked and way too soft.  As for the sauce, it was too thick and slimy!  However, there were big pieces of fish, squid, imitation crab and onion.

The whole dish was overwhelmed by the sauce. For some reason, the sauce was actually sweet. (???) I found this very odd!  We definitely did not finish this.

As for the curry beef rice, it was more normal.  The beef was tender and moist.  The only complaint is that there were too much green and red peppers and onions.  Not everyone likes the onions and peppers because they are cooked very raw.  Some people like the crunchiness but there was just too much of it.

Overall impression: Golden Oscar has random hits and misses.  It’s difficult to predict whether a dish will be good or bad.

Good:

• big portions

Bad:

• higher priced than most HK style restaurants
• random hits and misses for dishes