Mahjong Cafe & Bar 麻将茶餐厅&酒馆 - Flushing, New York

Nicholas Yeung

Mahjong Cafe & Bar is a Hong Kong style restaurant. It attempts to encapsulate the classic HK taste and atmosphere. From the decor to the food, they’ve certainly nailed it!

As for the food and drink, their HK style milk tea is very good and authentic. It’s accurately prepped and brewed (using the proper, traditional filter and strainer). Their Chicken Steak with Black Pepper Sauce over Spaghetti is also very good. The thick sauce has just the right amount of spiciness, and the chicken steaks are very tender.

Overall, it stays true to the HK spirit especially when you order the classic dishes and drinks!

Egg Taat

Cash only - make sure you have enough before go in

Budgeted breakfast options similar to Hong Kong style options.
The real kicker is their milk tea which is very similar to Hong Kong if you know, you know.

Quick with food and amazing restaurants design

Edward Chung

A little piece of Hong Kong in the middle of Flushing Queens. I stumbled upon the Mahjong Cafe today which got my curiosity up enough to try. The exterior is really blah when you look at it but once you step inside it’s pretty cool (see photos).
I only tried the wonton noodle soup (take away) which is really good. The soup is sweet, the noodles were cooked right and the wontons were excellent!

Jeannie T.

Food overall was "meh". Some of the Hong Kong style dishes which are classic for this kind of place, is now off the menu. Sad that I couldn't try that rice noodle that was in their previous photos. Good value was the lunch menu, steak with A1 ... It was sweeter than expected and very tender. Decent for the price. Fried fish skins were delicious but skip the soup, it was too cloudy and dark. Tasted like innards and minerals so that tells me it needed more rinsing. And skip the curry Squid and fish balls, very watered down despite the color. Spring rolls are vegetarian friendly and was quite good. But not what they are known for. Service was okay, not quite attentive but they responded when asked. I did enjoy my honey lemon tea.

Jason

The Asian Equivalent to Comfort eating at diners. You really go here to experience a bit of slow life or a quick bite to eat. It's a diner just Hong Kong style! For people familiar it has some standouts like the braised pork or their rice dishes.
Some of the classics are the HK Tea for 4.50 which is a great price. Not the best tea but not the worst either.
I really recommend the braise pork with spaghetti, it was really tasty and filling.
The Classic HK toast could be better, but I wouldn't get it unless you craved it.
Service is normal, nothing outstanding but it is quick.
Quality is above average for some dishes as a diner has an expansive menu.
Decor is mahjong themed and it's cute but you can tell it has that bar functionality.
Decent pick for some quick bites or a trip to memory lane with the food.

Kim Kim

average to decent Chinese restaurant in a highly concentrated area of Chinese restaurant. decent place for a first experience, not somewhere to go regularly. go there if your friend recommends, just humor them

make sure to use the soy sauce, salt, pepper, and sauce provided. really makes the boring dishes taste good

April-nyc

I've visited a handful of times for lunch and dinner with friends. Every time I've eaten here the food is great. Overall everything I've tried has been delicious.
Some of the highlights are their French toast and HK style milk tea. The pineapple bun with butter is good too, it usually comes out warm and nicely toasted which helps melt the slab of butter into the bread.
Service is ok, can be more consistent but nothing terrible. It's a casual eatery, don't expect service to be amazing and you won't be disappointed.

Cathy W (Cat)

Once I walked in, I like the special interior decorations that connects to the mahjong theme cafe. Aside from the gimmick, personally, I think the food here is average, not too banging, but not the worst.

They have lunch specials on a certain category of food that allows you to add $1 for hot drink and $2 for cold drink. My family ordered HK style cheung fun (A7), which the sauce is good amount but the cheung fun itself isn’t soft and smooth enough imo. The shark fin soup was a bit disappointing, quite below my expectation. Satay beef instant noodle has a good satay soup base but the instant noodle is a bit overcooked that it’s not like hk style but a bit soggy. My fish cutlet spaghetti with white sauce was alright. The fish cutlet was pretty crunchy. I believe the best dish was the baked pork chop rice with tomato sauce. That one was pretty good! My husband ordered a coffee milk tea (yin yeung) which was tasty. I had a hk style ice milk tea, which has a good strong tea taste but a bit too sweet on the other end. Overall, my meal was average.

The restaurant looks clean to me though, much better than other places I’ve been to in NY. And the waitresses were pretty friendly too.

If I was to suggest a thing they could improve or add to their cafe, I believe would be include some mahjong tiles look into their food, either decoration or edible food to match up with the theme. I think this way will capture more people to come and visit for the gimmick.