Jimmy's Place, Canberra
Salt and Pepper Mud Crab
Jade Lotus, Singapore Chilli Crab, Sylvania
Salt and Pepper Mud Crab
Hurstville Chinese Restaurant, Sydney
Salt and Pepper Mud Crab
Miranda Chinese Restaurant, Sydney
Salt and Pepper Mud Crab
Singapore Chilli Crab
The verdict:
Best salt and pepper mud crab at Jade Lotus, Sylvania.
Best singapore chilli mud crab at Hurstville Chinese Restaurant.
Showing posts with label Chinese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Shook, Star Hill Feast Village
Feb 2009 - Dinner at Shook
We caught up with an old school friend, Sally and had dinner at the Shook.
Sally and I shared a Chinese meal. We ordered a hot and sour soup, stir fry beef with spring onion, a szechuan prawn, a Cantonese seafood noodle, and rice. Sally had ice lemon tea and I had a teh tarik.
Kevin decided to have western, he had a beef carpacio, and steak beef with soft shell crab. He also had a campari.
Total cost for 3 = RM460
Ratings
Food quality = 10/10
Ambience and cleanliness = 10/10
Value for money = 9/10
Service = 9/10
Lily's comment: Excellent. The best fine dining restaurant I've ever been. The service staff made an effort to order my teh tarik from another nearby restaurant at the Star Hill Feast Village when it wasn't on the drink menu. It appears that expatriates like to dine here. The food quality is excellent. I had the best hot and sour soup ever! Not a fan of beef, I really enjoyed the stir fry beef with spring onion. The cantonese seafood fried noodle is so delicious, the kway teow was fried to a bit brownish which give it a little burnt taste, which is the secret to a good cantonese fried noodle. Kevin also enjoyed his cuisine very much and he was so impressed with the 6 star service provided. The menu catered for all type of cuisine, Japanese, Chinese, Western, etc. I've dined there once about 2 years ago but was not that impress with the service, I reckon it has improved.
We caught up with an old school friend, Sally and had dinner at the Shook.
Sally and I shared a Chinese meal. We ordered a hot and sour soup, stir fry beef with spring onion, a szechuan prawn, a Cantonese seafood noodle, and rice. Sally had ice lemon tea and I had a teh tarik.
Kevin decided to have western, he had a beef carpacio, and steak beef with soft shell crab. He also had a campari.
Total cost for 3 = RM460
Ratings
Food quality = 10/10
Ambience and cleanliness = 10/10
Value for money = 9/10
Service = 9/10
Lily's comment: Excellent. The best fine dining restaurant I've ever been. The service staff made an effort to order my teh tarik from another nearby restaurant at the Star Hill Feast Village when it wasn't on the drink menu. It appears that expatriates like to dine here. The food quality is excellent. I had the best hot and sour soup ever! Not a fan of beef, I really enjoyed the stir fry beef with spring onion. The cantonese seafood fried noodle is so delicious, the kway teow was fried to a bit brownish which give it a little burnt taste, which is the secret to a good cantonese fried noodle. Kevin also enjoyed his cuisine very much and he was so impressed with the 6 star service provided. The menu catered for all type of cuisine, Japanese, Chinese, Western, etc. I've dined there once about 2 years ago but was not that impress with the service, I reckon it has improved.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Miranda Chinese Restaurant
23/11/2008 - Dinner at Miranda Chinese Restaurant
It is always a big challenge to find a good Chinese restaurant in Sydney. I am normally not that impress with the Chinese restaurants here. They are determine to cater to Australian taste buds (sad!). Some of the common dishes that are so not Chinese food at all are - sweet & sour pork that looks like it has been covered with red dye, honey prawn that tastes so blxxdy sweet, mongolian lamb, sweet corn and chicken soup to name a few.
There were 5 of us and little Charlene.
Entree
To be honest, it's really not a Chinese tradition to start off the meal with an entree. All dishes, be it entree, or the main, and even the soup are served at one go. But okay, since we're in Australia and it's customary to have an entree before the main meal, we ordered the Pipi with black bean sauce.
Main
The various main that we had are:
- Mongolian lamb
- Tofu, chicken and salted fish hot pot
- Fisherman's treasure (this is a vegetarian dish - brocolli, and mixed vegetables wrapped in tofu skin)
- Ma Wong fish steamed in shallot, ginger and soya sauce
- Steam rice
Beverage: A bottle of Brokenwood Cricket Shiraz, and Chinese tea for all
It is always a big challenge to find a good Chinese restaurant in Sydney. I am normally not that impress with the Chinese restaurants here. They are determine to cater to Australian taste buds (sad!). Some of the common dishes that are so not Chinese food at all are - sweet & sour pork that looks like it has been covered with red dye, honey prawn that tastes so blxxdy sweet, mongolian lamb, sweet corn and chicken soup to name a few.
There were 5 of us and little Charlene.
Entree
To be honest, it's really not a Chinese tradition to start off the meal with an entree. All dishes, be it entree, or the main, and even the soup are served at one go. But okay, since we're in Australia and it's customary to have an entree before the main meal, we ordered the Pipi with black bean sauce.
Main
The various main that we had are:
- Mongolian lamb
- Tofu, chicken and salted fish hot pot
- Fisherman's treasure (this is a vegetarian dish - brocolli, and mixed vegetables wrapped in tofu skin)
- Ma Wong fish steamed in shallot, ginger and soya sauce
- Steam rice
Beverage: A bottle of Brokenwood Cricket Shiraz, and Chinese tea for all
Total cost for 5 = $240
Ratings
Food quality = 8/10
Ambience and cleanliness = 7/10
Value for money = 8/10
Service = 7/10.
Lily's comment: Excellent. This is definitely one of the better Chinese restaurants that I've been. We've dined several times here and never disappointed. The dishes are indeed very authentic. We were all very impressed! Loved the steam fish - it was cooked to the right amount of time, not too raw nor overcook, just melted in our mouth. I would also recommend the Fisherman's treasure vegetarian dish.
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