Blue Sky Cafe

Cuisine	Chinese
Price	$$ (16-30)
Rating	8/10
Last Visit	May 17, 2025
Location	SFBA: Peninsula

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General Notes

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Excellent Cantonese restaurant serving up all kinds of comforting foods. Someone I met from 广东 recommended this place to me and it did not disappoint. Everything that we ordered was delicious, but their most popular dishes seem to be their ginger / green onion chicken and their clay pot rice dishes. This is what I imagine good Cantonese cooking to be like -- somehow simultaneously not particularly intensely flavored but also such great flavors. It gets pretty busy, especially on the weekends; apparently it wasn't that busy until 小红书 started recommending it.

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Dishes Tasted

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• ★★★★ egg tofu, pea shoots -- fried egg tofu, sauteed pea shoots topped with a sauce made with mushrooms and shredded scallops. This combination feels really arbitrary but it's SO GOOD. The fried egg tofu is cooked perfectly and it's so crispy and soft inside. The sauce surprisingly doesn't have much mushroom flavor, which is perfect for me.
• ★★★☆ spare rib clay pot rice -- spare ribs are SO TENDER and solidly flavorful. There are a few peppers here and there so it's a little spicy, surprisingly.
• ★★★☆ hainan chicken -- The skin on this is so bouncy and perfect, it's served cold so the skin tastes even better. Not quite as flavorful as the ginger / scallion chicken but still very good.
• ★★★☆ eel clay pot rice -- excellent flavor, it's quite herbaceous with a good amount of green onion / cilantro. The crispy rice on the side adds a nice touch too. There's not actually much eel and I don't think it adds that much to the dish, but overall excellent. This is a surprisingly huge portion too.
• ★★★☆ pumpkin and shrimp with salted egg yolk -- never had anything quite like it before but it was delicious! fried well, egg yolk adds a nice touch. especially the pumpkin. It's a massive portion though, you'll definitely want to make sure you have at least several people to be eating this
• ★★★★ sauteed large pea sprout with garlic -- surprisingly huge portion, cooked really well
• ★★★★ chicken ginger green onion -- one of their signature dishes, everyone was ordering it and it was really popular on 小红书. Cooked well, the sauce mixture was perfect, I loved the savory touch the oil added. It was cooked kind of like 清蒸鱼 except in chicken form