This is going to be such a weak post. I hardly took pictures of this meal because I was too busy eating. I got a picture of the food before we put it in and then the dessert…lol. If you haven’t heard of Sweet Home Cafe, you may be living under a rock. Okay just kidding but also not really. This place is still one of the more popular eateries and I can see why. Good food, reasonable prices and an awesome free Taiwanese Shave Ice dessert. How can you go wrong? Well…I guess the external factors can. The long wait time, the limited parking lot…these things can definitely put a damper on your dining experience. I know now to come super early. Like eat before senior citizens kine early to avoid a long wait. I do have to say, I hope everyone gets to try this place at least once. If you can’t wait, try Golden Eagle Chinese Restaurant two doors down. It’s a good Chinese restaurant run by a small family. Support small business! Okay, here comes the pics.
Meat meat meat meat. Or for us, meat meat lamb lamb. I suggest the lamb. If you haven’t been here, you order the soup and meat with the waiter. The rest of the food items are in the refrigerators so it’s like the Genki of hot pot restaurants. Color plates corresponds to the cost. They have a bazillion dipping sauces to choose from and raw green onion and cilantro to accompany your food. Rice costs extra. The small portion is very cheap and fed three of us. In fact, we had rice leftover.
This is like the same picture as before…but now you see all the meat. I apologize for my terrible reporting on this meal.
Now, do you know what this is? If you’re Chinese, you probably do. This is a cold dish in the refrigerator, no cooking required. It just tastes great with some rice, nicely seasoned. The texture is awesome. I usually make people try this before I tell them what it is so I can get their true reaction. Do you wanna know what it is? Do you really want to? Comment if you do and I will give you the answer. If not, just eat em!
After stuffing my face, I finally took another picture. Here is their famous free dessert. It includes shave ice with like a brown sugar syrup. Lots of different flavors of jelly (i.e. mango, lychee). The middle is like a creamy coffee jello thing. The white blobs are like chunks of almond float. They are very accommodating here. If you cannot finish the dessert, they can put it in a take out cup. They also ask if you want the soup after you’re done in case you want to take it home to use again. I don’t know about everyone else, but the soup I use (healthy herb by the way) is always all murky and sludgy after all the cooking so I usually decline. Give them a try! It’s worth the wait.
This is the stuff! Ooey, gooey and delicious. Join me won’t you?
Ground beef ready to go!


You won’t regret making this. Adult and kids enjoy it! Let me know how it goes if you make it! 
I was surprised that they served chicken thighs but was fine because the meat was so tender. The chicken and sauce were delicious, the brown rice was good. I enjoyed the addition of fresh fruit slices, they were surprisingly juicy and sweet. My only complaint is the salad. Don’t get me wrong, I love salads but the greens they use while high quality are very bitter. I can’t take the bitterness. Their prices are also very good! I think this dish was about 8-9 bucks, I’d go for this dish over L&L any day!
Here is one of their signature dishes. Fried saimin with BBQ chicken. I can’t deny it, it is delicious! Especially slathered in Sriracha sauce…
Here was my dinner! Kimchee fried rice. I gotta say, this was really good! Kimchee fried rice is usually hit or miss in restaurants and I find that a lot of them tend to make kimchee fried rice a bit sweet. They made this fried rice very savory and tasty. Too tasty. That means I could taste butter which was nice but there was a bit too much butter. I still think it tasted great. If I work up the nerve, I may have to return here one day.
This looks professional but was homemade! There were black bean sauce in these noodles, very good. A lot of pictures are coming in this post, you have been warned!
Fried Rice Special with Eggs over Easy. Delicious! And so cheap…cash only though. Luckily I knew.
Side of hash browns. Can’t go wrong with this. I thought it tasted just fine! Like my art work? Haha!
Slice of their blueberry cream pie. This was mainly for my cousin who is a blueberry freak and she LOVED it. She’s pretty picky too. She even asked for it the other day…I guess we’ll have to go back when she comes home again!
Courtesy of Kristian!
Best breakfast (for lunch!) ever!
Mini Kalbi Plate ($9.00) – Pretty good price I think! Their mini plates comes with two scoops of rice and two veggies.