Bay Island Cafe

We eat dinner here about once a week regularly after table tennis. We love their ice lemon tea with refills and the black sesame milk tea. We like the on-choy, pork belly with preserved vegetables, squids with sour cabbage, egg plants, pan fried eggs with dry radish or bitter melon, cabocha, etc.

Great food and lots of choices & very attentive service. Atmosphere is the people you're with, inside decor nothing, just chairs and tables.

It is unbelievable cheap. And the flavor is not bad. We ordered like 10 dishes for 3 people. Take it Togo for the whole week, lol….

The food I ate twice was salty but tasted good. The staff was very busy.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

Food wasn’t great and made my stomach hurt, horrible service, the whole place looked dirty and the only thing that was okay was the milk tea.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Recommended dishes: 金沙南瓜條

Unable to treat dine -in and takeout food fairly .the quality is very poor and the attitude is terrible very low level of the communication.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Recommended dishes: Deep Fried

The lunch special is such a good deal

Parking: Sometime takes awhile to land a parking spot during peak period

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Bay Island continues to be a good choice for your Hong Kong Style cafe. With familiar Cantonese dishes, they are still a local favorite as seemingly there is a small resurgence.

Their menu is very complete with noodles, stir fry, clay pots, and some nice traditional entrees. Rice is served plenty without that single bowl service that other restaurants annoying do.

Drinks however are served in plastic disposables, but you can't enforce environmentally friendly practices everywhere.

The service is typical and fast. The value is exceptional along with Cantonese flavors that are not overly seasoned.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

I hate u guys ur guys servisce is soi bad i had to wait a whole entire lightyear even my grandma's cooking is way better then urs and she is 50000000000 years

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

This is your typical Chinese style cafe. Wait can be awhile when crowded. Food is good, reasonable priced and portions. Gets noisy. They like to get you in and out quickly.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Curry Beef Stew, Sauteed String Beans, Wet Beef Chow Fun, Porridge, Crispy Egg Noodle, 1 Hong Kong Style Noodles Beef Chow Fun, Fish, Mongolian Beef, Seafood, Beef Stew & Wontons Noodle Soup

I was unfortunate enough to have found this filthy restaurant located in the busy area of Rosemead, CA.

Inside this casually remodeled place, I could find the kind of styles that remind me of the low-tier restaurants that are flanking both sides of some busy streets in the city of Rosemead.

Greasy and bad-smelling floor is the "distinctive" aspect of this small restaurant that makes them "standout" among its class of lousy waitressing services and disorganized management style.

One uncommon practice of this rather lame restaurant is their audacious way of hiring some waitresses that seem to defy the conventional attitude towards serving the patrons who are bemused and blind-sighted by the locational convenience of this cheap Chinese restaurant.

Inside this rather uniquely strange place, there is an overweight waitress in her mid-20's who has a pony tail that was unwittingly combed and wrapped above her "stuffy" head.

She possess a pair of ever-so-intimidating and hollow eyes that would easily make the customers submitting to her own ways of waitressing.

I did find her rude and offensive when she yelled at me to wait outside the restaurant for my takeout.

While she was giving out this order vehemently her hollow and angry looks in her eyes had gotten intensified. I was thrown off by her antagonizing and brainless attitudes which had forced me to wait outside the restaurant where an empty bucket and an upside down mop were being placed against the wall pretty much next to the main doors.

I would not go back to this pathetically run Chinese restaurant ever again knowing that this overweight and "embattled"waitress and this "chaotic" restaurant would ruin my appetite and my day even I would have a minimum amount of patron-and-staffs interactions inside.

I recommend going to the other better managed and more hygienic Chinese restaurants in the area to fill up your stomach and to reboot yourself for the rest of the day.

This waitress was trying to force me into submission with her self-proclaimed authority. I was really affronted by her offensive attitude and tone of voice.

You can attest yourself to my reviews by dining or having lunch in this eatery-and-restaurant hybrid restaurant later.

It was ONE of my worst experiences of buying takeouts. I felt like I was being kicked out of the restaurant by this overweight, hollow-skulled, and Cantonese-speaking waitress.

By the way, I had been buying takeouts at this restaurant for over four months now and still, I could have received such kind of offensive service from this waitress.

"Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're gonna get." -- Forrest Gump, 1994.

acceptable price and quantity. quality could improve given the saltiness. service of staff was good considering the crowd at noon

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Super good foods

Food: 5

Service: 5

Vegetarian options: Just read the menu for tofu vegetable you can tell the waiter or waitress that you just want tofu with mushrooms or vegetables only that is a easy fix

Recommended dishes: Curry Beef Stew, HK Style Hot Milk Tea Serve with Condensed Milk on the Side, Clam Soup, Sauteed String Beans, Wet Beef Chow Fun, 1 Hong Kong Style Noodles Beef Chow Fun, Mongolian Beef