City 1 Cafe - Vancouver

Our friend recommended and treated us for lunch at City One Cafe. We ordered the full Hainanese chicken and it comes with broth soup to start and 5 bowls of oily rice. The rice is quite tasty and not that oily. It comes with a...More

Portions are a little small for the pricing, but the food is tasty! Hainan Chicken rice particularly good, but stick with the half-chicken order so you get more dark meat (the white meat is a little less moist). Chicken wings come in 4 per order and Roti only two per order, which seems a little pricey. But you could do worse in Vancouver. Also the staff are easy going, a little slow, but friendly enough! Good luck and enjoy!

Many people have recommended their Hainan chicken, as this is their signature dish, so finally tonight we came here to try for the first time. We can early as we heard it can get busy. We ordered the Hainan chicken with oil rice and a chicken laksa, and we waited excitedly when 15 mins after we placed the order, the server came back and told us the chicken is sold out. We thought it was a bit strange given 15 mins have gone by before they told us. But anyways, we changed our order to something else non-chicken. However, during our entire meal, every table around us were able to order the chicken, even the people that came in after us. And even when we paid, someone came in to place a take-out order of the chicken and was able to get it. They couldn't give us a direct answer why they lied to us about the sold out chicken, but I can say that I will never go back again!

Tired of going to the usual restaurant, we wanted to try something new. Located in a mall with lots of parking spaces, it is not difficult to find. Along Oak Street to the north, after Children Hospital, turn right into the mall where Safeway is spotted. Overall, good services and environment is decent. You can sit comfortably to enjoy the food. Their boneless Hainan chicken is recommended to be pre-ordered. Chicken rice is not oily but the chicken is close to Chinese white chicken than the traditional Hainan chicken. The curry beef brisket is said to be their famous dish - not bad but not the best. Roti Prata Bread and Pork Ribs Herbal soup are so so. Same comment on the Laksa. Overall, the food seemed slightly salty. I would recommend the deep fried yam rice cake - good value for money n delicious, not too sweet. Not that expensive. I saw they have good turnover on takeaway. Monday is off. Otherwise, hours of operations are from 11:30 am - 8:00 pm.

We stopped in here (2 adults, 1 child) for a quick lunch.We ordered sweet&sour pork, and springrolls to share with the child, and I ordered Char Keuy Teow.Spicy curry, awesome slightly smoky flavour. Prices were good for Asian cuisine, and portions were decently sized. Not huge, but not too small either.The art / food photography here is great, it is used in their menus and on the walls. Well done, and makes the food look appetizing - as is sometimes not the case at small asian cuisine restaurants.We would come here again for sure.............................................................................