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April 15, 2009 | 
Author Dessert House
313 Swanston St, Melbourne
03 9663 2284
If you want something cheap and quick, it’s hard to go past Dessert House. They don’t just do desserts, actually their main focus is Hong Kong-style cafe dishes, an early, cheap and nasty version of Asian Fusion.
I’ve been there quite a number of times and if you are a gourmet foodie, stop reading now. This is nothing grand, it’s more like a Hong Kong style of junk food. Reliable dishes are the Seafood fried rice with XO sauce, chicken and sweet corn with rice, char keow teow and most of the stir fry noodles.
Unreliable dishes includes this one- deep fried chicken wings with chips, side salad and sweet chilli sauce ($7). I would recommend not to eat the limp salad with gooey salad dressing. I would also recommend not to eat the limp, oily fries. I would further recommend you not to eat the greasy wings that’s no longer (or actually was never) crispy. The sauce is alright though! May I just further add that the oil in which they fry this fries and chicken wings must be old, and they must have fried FISH in it, because this chicken wings and fries tasted like fish?
For my mains I ordered a baked mixed and match rice ($11.30). You may be wondering what mix and match rice is. The concept is simple. It’s like those fashion mag that features 6 key pieces of clothing and you mix and match to get 20 new looks.
Choose 1 meat: Chicken/beef/ pork fillet
Choose 2 sauce: Black pepper/ White/ tomato/Portuguese
Choose 1 carb: Rice/fried rice/ Spaghetti
I chose baked chicken fillet with black pepper & Portuguese sauce on fried rice. The portuguese sauce is quite nice, very creamy with a hint of curry, whilst the black pepper sauce seemed a bit overcooked and turned into a blob of black goo. The chicken fillet is huge and hubby and to eat half of mine. The fried rice underneath is nothing special, just plain rice with oil and bits of egg.
Really, there’s not much expectation that this cafe will serve top notch anything, but if you want a cheap and quick meal, this is a right choice for you.
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Grill’d has more and more franchise around Melbourne- I hope they would managed to keep their high level of quality because it’s GOOD!
I had a Hot Mama ($11.50)- to be honest it’s not that hot at all, but the ingredients are very fresh and flavoursome. And that’s what I like about Grill’d- it’s kinda like yummie burger but also very healthy.
Chips are good also, seasoned with herb- so hot, fresh and yummmmieeeee. Herb Mayo makes it even tastier. Yum Yum 
Dessert House
Little Bourke St
This place is always full. They are famous for their “little car noodles” at lunch and dinner time, snacks and crepes in between. We were lucky enough to get a seat so I was pretty excited. Basically how this works : you choose different types of noodles (egg, flat rice, thin rice, Hokkien noodles etc), ingrediants (fish balls, beef balls, beef, vegetables, sausages… more than 30 different types of ingrediants) and then you can choose a sauce (curry, laksa, beef brisket sauce etc). (3 ingrediants for approx $10)
I selected turnips, stuffed eggplants, chicken wings and in addition an egg with flat rice noodles with laksa sauce. I wish I didn’t get the sauce cos it wasn’t that great. My friends got clear soup and it looks pretty yummie. The turnip was a bit tasteless too. Overall I would rate it possibly 3.5 /10. But I was hoping to go back there to try clear soup.