Huh, I’ve been to Baby Cafe in Oakland’s Chinatown. It’s diagonal to Shooting Star and occupied the previous Yummy Guide Cafe (which had multiple branches as a HK restaurant as well). I never tried their baked pork chop but I did get their special once and thought they did a good job but thought prices were raised compared to Yummy Guide.
In any case, I tried a few more baked pork chop places with well, two being new.
The first baked pork chop over rice is at Cafe New Honolulu at 888 Stockton St, San Francisco, CA 94108 (Right across from the post office). I recall this place being a restaurant, but I seldom ate here. In any case, this place got a remodel and have baked items!
Honestly, this place just reminds me of VIP Cafe. The sauce is extremely similar if not identical, which makes me wonder if the chef use to work at VIP or vice versa. The pork chops were nice but I wouldn’t mind if they were thicker. There were some peas and carrots with the sauce over the fried rice without cheese.
On to the next place! This is at Orchids Cafe (not to be confused with Cafe Orchid in Milbrae…) at 1031 Ocean Ave, San Francisco, CA 94112
The baked pork chops at Orchids Cafe is a little different. I’d say one of the chop was more like pork steak/blade steak if anyone has any idea of that and a second piece that was more of your traditional pork chop. Not a huge fan of the blade steak since there is random gristle in the middle of the chop and makes it a little more difficult to cut when the chop is covered with sauce. Sauce wise, it is tomato based and quite good, not too sweet.
Lastly, a little ways off from SFBA, but if you’re in Sacramento you can give Blue Moon Cafe a shot.
Their pork chop baked rice is on the smaller end, where the chops are more like a cutlet. Presliced and cut up but I find their sauce to be be pretty good.
