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Posts Tagged ‘Dumplings’

A Chinese Laneway Treasure

February 14, 2009 | Author
Hu Tong
14-16 Market Lane, Melbourne
(03) 9650 8128
Hubby and I walked down Market Lane one day in search of yummie lunch when I saw this tiny restaurant- chefs were preparing dumplings in kitchen, while basket and basketfuls of dumplings are steaming behind them. I tried dragging him in but he refused to go, so I decided to drag Shoe Queen along to a dumpling feast!
Hu Tong means laneway, and how appropriate as it is nestled in Market Lane, which, although is one of the more famous lane (housing Flower Drum), it’s really blink and you’ll miss it kinda restaurant.

I must first of all apologise the quality of the pics- we were so hungry and the food smelt so yummie that I can’t wait to eat it :P

We had Shredded Turnip Pastries ($5.80 for 3 pcs) for entree. This dish was so-so, although the pastries has fantastic flavour, the shredded Turnip is a bit undercooked and slightly cold in the middle. Undercooked turnip sucks :( Actually only mine was like that, Shoe Queen’s one wasn’t and the one we shared is fine also.

14/2 Update: We went to Hu Tong again and this time the Shredded Turnip Pastries is very nice and well cooked- one big smiley face for them! :D

Mince pork & veg wanton w/soup ($7.5 for 8 pcs). This is REALLY good- one of the best wonton I’ve eaten in Melbourne- it’s definitely HK standard, at least. The dumpling skin is translucent and the ingredients inside were soooo yummie- the only thing on my wishlist is maybe a bit more veg in the dumplings, but otherwise it’s near perfect.

Shao Long Bao ($8.50 for 8 pcs)- someone told me that if you can pick up the Shao Long Bao (Shanghaiese dumplings) by the tip and it doesn’t break, yet the skin is very thin and soft, it’s a well-made Shao Long Bao. THIS Shao Long Bao is one of those Shao Long Bao. Beautiful flavour, well made dumpling= 10/10 for me :)

Service is very good and really, if it wasn’t for the cold turnip pastry I would have given it 9/10- oh wellz, 8.5/10 it is! It better improve!

14/2 Update: We also tried the wonton in Chilli oil- v. yummie, the fish soup is very nice, the stir fry potato & capsicum is OK but fabulous w/chilli sauce.

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Hong Kong Food Paradise Adventure

December 10, 2008 | Author

Little Piggy takes you to HK for a smorgasbord of yummie food 

 

HK Power Breakkie (at any dodgey looking cafe)
For $4-$6 you get: instant noodle with sausage & egg plus drink (pictured) or two eggs, sausage/ham/spam, toast plus drink or egg, spam/ham/sausage, macaroni plus drinks. Not the most nutritious food, but hey- it’s cheap.

Instant noodle with sausage & egg. Plus iced lemon tea
Honeymoon Desserts. There are quite a few stores, this one is in Langham Place
This is honeymoon dessert- supposedly famous dessert place… nice decor and everything, but the service is soooo slooowwww considering I am the ONLY customer there (it IS a weird hour of the morning to be having dessert but I am blaming jet lag!) it took like 15 mins to make dessert. I can understand if it’s bloody souffle but this is just stuff prepared beforehand!
Purple Rice & Mango in coconut milk
Anyway the purple rice & Mango in coconut milk was good but the presentation was not much like the pic on the menu. I’ve also asked for less coconut milk but it was still swimming with coconut milk so I had to try to avoid it… yikes 
69 Wellington St, Central
Old style kitchen gave this cafe a homely feel
Now THIS is a yummie place- I was walking around when I came across this place- it has a lot of newspaper cutting stuck outside, which should mean this is a yummie place someone has introduced (although I suppose they might have a bad review and they just stuck the article on, hoping no one would read it and just assume that it’s yummie :P ). But really, it’s yummie- in an old style kitchen, these middle aged ladies are making loads & loads of dumplings. There are so many different types of dumplings, but I felt like Shanghai Wonton- so Shanghai vegetable & meat wonton it is.
It came in this plain bowl filled with Wontons. Omg I am in heaven with the first bite- there’s not a lot of MSG which is always a bonus in HK. There’s a good 50/50 split of vegies and meat- which is something that’s quite rare (in Australia anyway). It was so yummie and juicy that I really really wanna go back for more. But it’s v. filling and I need to find more yummie stuff to show you, so I only ate one bowl :P Oh and of course, I’ve gotta rave about their service- they made me feel so so welcome, they really treat me like a house guest. They know a lot of their customer’s names and the service was prompt.

 

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