Cha Kee in Richmond is a place where lots line up for scrambled eggs, albiet among other things.

^typical hk breakfast trash ! Weak !!!!!!

Take your British influenced colonialism meal and get outta here

Which fucking chinaman eats toast and eggs for breakfast. Ancestors would be spinning in their graves if we didn’t burn them up into a fine powder.

Why do Asians like lining up for food anyways? I've always wondered that.

Is it a clout thing?

Strength in numbers/flock mentality

If people are lining up for it, it must be good

Oh man. Why on earth would you order Benny or Scrambled eggs from there. You need to eat something. Straight outta “You gotta eat this.” Dirty heavy gravy, fried, cheese. You’re a man with an appetite. Fill it.

Breakfast isn’t hard. Quality meats, crispy potato’s and properly cooked eggs. Add some freshness and you’ve got a winner. Make it huge, and I’ll keep coming back lol. PS show up at opening and you walk right in. I agree the line up is insane and would never wait.

Vancouver has a huge gap in breakfast places. I haven’t been to red wagon in 8 years probably, but what’s so special? JD syrup? Lol. Pork belly is neat and all, but there isn’t anything special about the place. I did frequent it quite a bit before as they had decent coffee too if I remember correctly.

Isn't Yolks a scrambled eggs place too? :badpokerface:

(I love their Bennies lol~)

People: I'm a Unicorn!

Also people: Imma line up for this basic breakfast place like a pack mule!

Yolks was purchased by OEB.

Cha Kee is good. Liver noodles are very good. They can probably speed up the wait time if they invest in a computer system rather than hand write the order.

Ho Yuen’s eggs have improved. But their iced lemon tea still needs work.

For western breakfast… I can’t stomach paying $20 a plate of eggs, bacon, and hasbrowns. $3-5 more for a minute-maid “juice”.

Boooo!!!! HK breakfast suck!!!

Go back to congee you fags !

i dont really understand the hype around yolks, i always found it too greasy. i don't even want to know how much they charge nowadays.

OEB - Is it good? I don't like waiting in line and it seems out of my price range, so I've never tried.

breakfast is a rip off unless you go a cheap greasy dinner type place

I think it really depends on your breakfast preferences as their stuff is somewhere between simple diner food and fancy brunch food. Eg. You can get stuff like lobster, scallops or ahi tuna in their breakfast poutines but it's not presented as a fancy thing - it's a replacement for sausage or bacon instead.

I like it but it's not something I'd go to regularly - I ultimately just prefer a basic 2 fried eggs, bacon, sausage, and pancakes breakfast.

They fancify brunch but do it poorly. Putting caviar on bagged hollandaise is about as angry as I can get.

:heckno:

A lot of people with roots from Hong Kong claim it is one of the most authentic HK food places there is in Vancouver. Apparently hardly any other restaurant -- sit down restaurant or food court stall -- comes close to having the same taste as what you can get in Hong Kong as Cha Kee.

With the batches of Hong Kongers returning / migrating to Canada in the recent few years, there is definitely a market specifically looking to chase a taste that they probably used to eat almost on a daily basis.

I keep seeing people rave about it, but the only times when I am close to Cha Kee is when they have a 45 - 60 min wait time, so I ain't waiting for HK tea restaurant food for that long.

I went with my wife and her girlfriend once, and I thought the whole thing was interesting. We didn't reserve a table ahead of time, so the 45 min wait did not impress me. Once we sat down though, the atmosphere and service were quite good. I like how Westopher described it -- "fancified brunch" is very accurate. Everything not related to the food was quite nicely done.

The food itself is not bad at all -- it was fancy and tasty enough. But 1 piece of toast + a few bits of fruits do not a $20 brunch make. Add a drink, taxes, and tips, and you're looking at $30+ easy. I've had fuller (ie. more filling) breakfasts when I only have 5 min to prep and eat before rushing off to work.

I went to Cha Kee. It was good, but we haven't been back. The milk tea that was raved about was good but not amazing. The food was good but not worth a 45min wait over. I prefer the taste of Ho Yuen over Cha Kee. And if I go to Ho Yuen before lunch rush there's no wait.

So far the best milk tea I've had in Vancouver is Maxims in Chinatown. Their tea is great and what I expect from a HK milk tea. I would asterisk that's just my preference though as the last 10% of how good it is can be a throw between Cha Kee and Maxims depending on the person.

Vancouver cooks/chefs have the same thinking? My cousin, who caters, constantly opens up pop-ups in somewhat dumpy places with great food.

There isn’t a place in Vancouver I’d wait 45+ minutes for lol..

Red wagon is typically the only place I ever stand in a lineup at and it’s usually under 10 minutes for 2 people.

I love when these totally half ass places have half their tables empty but resos presumably incoming, so they tell you an hour plus of a wait just to sit down. It’s like ok yea, don’t serve me your overpriced tacos and beer and keep all those tables empty for the no-shows, nice business model

No line ups :lol

My biggest gripe is lining up for breakfast, I think it's silly.

You just blew my mind. No wonder it changed so much.

When it first opened on Clark & Hastings, and was run by that lesbian chick who looked like Kenny from Kenny & Spenny, that place was fire.

The menu changed and I wasn't sure why, OEB makes sense.

It's still solid, but not as good as when it first opened. No line ups though, which is what breakfast should be, if there's a line, go somewhere else.

OEB falls under the same umbrella. It's good, I particularly like their pancakes, but again, wouldn't line up for that spot.

If you can grab a table quick, I'd say it's worth going (weekdays).

More than this?

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If you can afford it, do you guys think it's always better to buy real estate in Vancouver (even in this climate)?

One of my uncles has a six bedroom house that him and his wife life in. Their two sons have moved out, they both have their own families and places in Vancouver.

He's thinking about moving to Kitsilano. His idea is to buy a place in Kits and rent out his current home.
He's looking at half duplexes so his budget is about $2.3M.
Which is like $460k down + $11k a month in mortgage payment + property tax. He said he could sell some more stocks and put like 30% down if needed.

He asked me what I thought and I just told him I think real estate is always a good idea if you can afford it. Especially in Vancouver. Based on history, real estate always goes up. The big challenge right now is that interest rates are so high, does it make sense as an investment? Maybe not, but if you're going to live there, I guess it's okay.

I would think his current house could rent out for $6k a month, but he would also have to pay tax on that income as the house is paid off, the expenses wouldn't be that high for that property to offset the income.