Capital Cafe

If one want to experience how a «real» Hong Kong Style Café the way it is, Capital Café 華星冰室 may worth trying.
Small tiny tables that you need to share with other patrons. Cocky waitstaff who is efficient and friendly with a degree of sarcasm. Cheap fast comfort food.
I just could not stop smiling listening to these waiters cracking silly jokes and comments within themselves. They even talks to customers with this friendly tone with a degree of sarcasm. Customer service one might not use to if you have been living overseas for awhile.
Even after 9:30 am the place was packed. But the turnover was really fast and I was in and out within 20 minute.
Come here for the experience and of course try the scrambled eggs which is so soft and fluffy. Milk tea still served in the traditional HK style tea cups. You won’t regret that.

My local friends recommended this café for breakfast, and we were not disappointed. This HK café is owned by a celebrity and apparently lots of local celebrities dine there (though we didn’t see any haha!)
My party arrived on a weekday at 11.30AM, and there were plenty of seats. It quickly got crowded, though, and the place was full by 12PM. It may be good to decide what you want to get even before going, especially if it’s your first time and if you don’t really speak Cantonese. When it gets busy, the staff may be a little annoyed if you take too long. But honestly, compared to other HK cafes we have been to, the service here is already comparatively good.
We got the breakfast set which consists of ham macaroni, eggs and buttered toast and a drink. (34 HKD) You get to choose either sunny side-​up eggs (jian dan) or scrambled eggs (chao dan). We opted for scrambled eggs, and made sure to say the order correctly because the last time we went to a café, we didn’t get our scrambled eggs because we didn’t know how they referred to their eggs as. Cold drinks are an additional 2 HKD. I had the iced milk tea, but it was tooooo sweet for my liking. Hot drinks come unsweetened, so it may be better to control the sweetness for those who are concerned.
The buttered toast and eggs are awesome! The eggs are watery the way I like it, I guess with milk added? But they didn’t taste too milky. I only had my toast after it got cold but it was still crunchy and pretty good. Must’ve been much better when it was freshly served.
Ham macaroni was not bad, a little on the salty side but the broth tasted a lot like Campbell chicken soup which is sort of my comfort food.
34 HKD for a whole breakfast set is such a steal! I wish I had tried the headmaster toast, though.

The chicken or the egg? At Capital Café you get the eggs of course!
Capital Café is popular for their scrambled eggs and rightly so. This is a very typical «Hong Kong» café where you can get the traditional HK breakfast (Macaroni with ham, eggs, toast, and milk tea). They have other dishes but I personally haven’t tried it because every time I come here I get the breakfast set.
What’s special about their eggs? I’m guessing they mix it with milk, and its a little soggy in a good way. Their milk tea has has a nice strong flavor; not very watered down or overly sweet.
If you come here on a weekday during lunch time, expect a very long line. but if you go after work hours its quite empty. Either way the service is always quick without being rude (like Australian Dairy can be sometime.
I wouldn’t come out of my way to eat here, but if I’m in Wan Chai its also a nice option to dine at.

This is one of my favorite cha caan tengs (local café) to eat at. Their eggs are super fluffy and tasty. Combine it with their toast, and it’s like an orgasm in your mouth. Their macaroni noodles with ham is pretty tasty, but not something that blows my mind. Their unique menu items include scrambled eggs on toast with truffle and cheesy toast with truffle. Their Hong Kong style milk tea is also solid.
One of my other favorite things about Capital Café is the staff. They’re always happy and willing to talk to you. They have a really good sense of humor too. It’s not one of those places that rushes you in and out.

Food:
Eggs — I love their scrambled egg. Tastes good on toast. Or as a scrambled egg sandwich. Very smooth eggs.
Milk tea — Great hot or cold. Good tea flavor to it, and not too sweet too.
Truffle Toast — Named as Principal Toast (校長多士) as a nickname after a Hong Kong Singer. Comes with truffle and cheese on toast. Delicious. Not a large portion, so it should best be the side to the rest of your meal
Service:
Quick service, but friendly. You can tell they want you on your way, but they do it in a friendly manner. Benefit is that even if there is a line, it goes by quickly.
Probably every other time I am in Wan Chai thinking about where to eat, I’ll think about coming here.

Nice cha chang tein breakfast but on the expensive side costing $ 34 a set, ouch… The thick toast is nice and the milk tea is very good. Not very crowd at 8am.

Honestly, I came here purely from the hype generated from groups of friends who kept talking about this place that had back then just opened up in Wanchai. Saying so-​and-​so had opened the place we thought this place should be pretty decent.
On arriving, it was a little underwhelming because the shop is tiny to say this least. This is Wanchai and I guess this is understandable– so we proceeded. I say proceeded but I mean we proceeded to wait and we were really told how long it will take. People were coming out pretty quickly so we thought it should be our turn soon.
Indeed, the beckon for us to enter and we went in holding our breaths expecting to see stars everywhere… well, I think the whole place was a bit bland to be honest. It was a small place so everything was packed. We sat down and the menu was actually really short– you care made to have the sets (which all have the egg, cha siu spaghetti in soup). Again you put up with it with the waiter keep chasing you down to order something; you just do.
The food came and I would say its ok– that’s why its got 3 stars. If I was really hungry and this was a place close to me, yes I would go there because I don’t even need to think what I want. Its the same stuff over and over again.
What if I was not in the area and felt like having the right to actually choose something? I wouldn’t come here in a million years.