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UPDATE-2011: Seventh Heaven Cafe is now closed. A different Hong-Kong style cafe called ABC has replaced it.
Richmond’s Aberdeen Centre mall — anchored by Daiso, the best place to spend your toonies — is full of (mostly Chinese) places to eat. Its food court is fabulous, but there are also several restaurants tucked in the complex.
Seventh Heaven Cafe is a typical Hong-Kong style cafe, tucked behind Northern Delicacy on the second floor. It’s good for a quick lunch or casual dinner.
Is it going to win any fine-dining prizes? Not really. But you can get a huge, decent prime rib for $11.95.
Served with a green salad, it’s not the best prime rib I’ve ever had — but I’m sure it’s the best $11.95 prime rib I’ve tasted.
The cafe is a weird morph of a ’50s diner with neon, plastic desert cacti out front. I saw some online reviews that service was bad, but we had a good experience. The cafe is clean and has a huge menu of rice, noodles and other Hong Kong-style fare.
This is the special shark fin rice noodles ($9.50) — made with imitation Japanese shark fin — which had bits of seafood including shrimp and squid and slices of barbecued pork.
The Singapore-style rice vermicelli ($8.50) was pretty standard, but it made my mom happy.
Anyway, did I mention the prime rib is only $11.95?
Seventh Heaven Cafe, 2792-4151 Hazelbridge Way, Aberdeen Centre, Richmond, B.C., (604) 295-6777.
Is the prime rib a limited time special? It looks really good. Hmmm, I know where my next dinner will be. Thanks for posting.
Jonnek: As far as I could tell, the prime rib special is on every day. But don’t quote me on it!
Make sure to read their menu.
Unless they’ve changed it recently, it’s good for a few laughs. Among other things, they boast that they have cellphone chargers for all brands and that you can charge your phone while you eat! Only in Richmond.
Prime rib was sooo popular, it’s now an everyday special from breakfast to dinner… =)
And if you do read that menu… you’ll also get the typical unappetizing direct translations of various dishes that are meant to turn away non-Asian eaters… For example, “Sea Slugs on… with….” – I couldn’t get past the sea slugs (which are really sea cucumbers which are usually used in Chinese soups or vegetable dishes… not noodles or spaghetti)… and just had to end up pointing at it.