Experience flavours of Hong Kong and Taiwan at new cafe in Lancaster

My Home Cafe at 10, Gage Street, Lancaster, classes itself as a ‘quintessential Hong Kong & Taiwan style café in Lancaster’.

Owner Zeno Chow said: “I love to cook and so opening a café is a rare and commendable platform for me to introduce the authentic Hong Kong and Taiwanese cultures to the local community, which is part of my family's new home.

"We serve up those quintessential foods and drinks to our locals, and it's the most straightforward and effective way to build a good future, not only for my family, but for the community as well.

“Several factors led to the decision to bring my family to the UK; I had already spent some time in the UK during my adolescence and early twenties and I enjoyed the culture and the way of life here.

“I attended college and university and I had made a lot of friends and ultimately, I would like my children to experience the same opportunities and joys that I did.

“I want to provide a better education and learning opportunities for my children, to have a better living and working environment and to be able to live in a country that has freedom of speech and thinking.”

The menu at My Home Cafe includes Hong Kong style sandwiches (with scrambled eggs, luncheon meat and scrambled eggs and corned beef and eggs), and Taiwan style sandwiches (ham and eggs, cheese and eggs, strawberry and cheese).

The cafe serves snacks such as eggettes (egg waffles in two different flavours), fish meatballs with curry sauce, steamed beef meatballs, leek and minced pork dumplings and duck steamed bun.

Main courses include Hong Kong style instant noodle dishes including satay beef macaroni, spiced pork cubes macaroni, luncheon meat and eggs macaroni, and also barbecued pork (char sui) and fried egg with rice, luncheon meat and eggs with rice, and satay beef with rice.

Taiwanese style food includes Taiwan-style braised pork with rice.

Bakery goods include swiss roll in original, pandan and mocha flavours.

The cafe also serves drinks including brew coffee, Hong Kong style milk tea, Horlicks, Ovaltine, green tea, jasmine tea, hot chocolate, lemon coke, lemon water, lemon tea.

It also serves apple cider, honey herbal jelly drink, Yon Ho soybean drink, coke, diet coke, and other soft drinks.

The cafe is open Monday to Friday, 10am-5.30pm and Saturday 10am-4pm. Sunday it is closed.

Pop into the cafe on Gage Street, visit their Facebook page @MY HOME CAFE or Instagram @myhomecafe.lancaster.