26 February 2021

Chinatown Restaurant Weston - 17-2-21


 
 


Diners: Megan, Jim, John, Ron and Kim

Linda chose the dishes for us. All of the dishes were tasty.

Entrees

Steamed pork dumplings

Mains

Black pepper beef with potatoes

Fried rice

Fried chicken with Peking sauce

Stir-fried prawns with ginger and broccoli – our favourite

Rock salt pork chops and plum sauce

Desserts

Banana split with caramel sauce

Deep-fried ice-cream chocolate

Banana fritter with caramel sauce

Accompaniments

Steamed rice

 

11 February 2021

China Tea House Erindale - 3 February 2021


Diners

Jim, Ron, John and Kim

Entree

Duck Pancakes – delicious.  The pancake was still warm and the filling was like san choi bau (filled with duck)

Mains – all mains were very good. 

·        Eggplant and seafood in chilli bean sauce

·        Deep-fried calamari in spicy rock salt and chilli

·        Shanghai slow cooked pork belly – fantastic, melt in the mouth.  We loved the sauce.

·        Honey seasonal greens (snow peas and sugar snap peas)

Accompaniments

Steamed rice

Desserts

Fried Ice-cream with chocolate sauce

Sticky date pudding – yum

Other Comments

Lovely service staff. Very friendly. 


21 January 2021

Mings Restaurant in Phillip - 20 January 2021

Inauguration of Joe Biden, 46th US president occurs tomorrow on this date

Diners

Jim, John, Ron, Karen, Kim and Megan

Entrée

Crispy duck pancakes – nice pancakes

Mains

Wasabi steak with broccoli – lots of wasabi.  This was our favourite dish

Scallop and king prawns with XO sauce – generous serve

Steaked cod fillet with ginger and shallots

Ayam goreng - delicious

Belacan beans

Accompaniments

Steamed rice

NO DESSERT ON OFFER, VERY DISAPPOINTED

Indian Affair Woden 6 January 2021

 

Diners

Jim, John, Ron, Karen and Kim

Entrée

Sweet potato and spinach chaat – delicious

Mains

Eggplant masala – this was our favourite dish

Butter chicken

Lamb saag – the odd thing about this dish is that due to the inclusion of spinach it is usually predominantly green. It was not green!

Yellow dahl

Beef korma

Accompaniments

Saffron rice

Naan – delicious.

Desserts

Kulfi (this was green)

Gulab jamun