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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Golden Century CNY dinner

Gong Xi Fat Choi everyone, may the year of water snake brings us good health, luck, wealth, happiness and joy. My CNY started with dinner at the legendary Golden Century (Chinatown) with a group of friends. Overall, dishes were great, good service with attentive and helpful staffs. Happy CNY peeps, let's eat yummy food and be merry!!

Peking duck ~ crispy skin, hardly any fattie bits and just melt in your mouth..yumyum

Sang Choy Bow ~ minced duck with bamboo shoots in lettuce. Refreshing and light with crunchiness from bamboo shoot & lettuce.

CNY posh part ~ Shaved boiled abalone, to be dipped with soy sauce.

Soy sauce for the abalone

Wonton soup with lettuce in abalone broth. Simple yet tasty. The broth was excellent, really tasty, wonton was pretty jumbo with generous fillings.

Lobster noodle ~ OhhMMGee, here comes the great tasty lobster that ruins your cholesterol. Succulent meat and well cooked, goes well with noodle (I think it was egg noodle).

Crispy chicken with salt on the side, it was okay, skin was thin and crispy, meat has subtle taste. I dont mind it but not my fave.

Tofu hot pot with BBQ pork, prawn, carrot, etc.I love the big fat silken tofu !!

Spinach cooked with 3 eggs (duck egg, chicken egg and century egg). As a devotee to eggs (duck, chicken, century), this is such a great invention. The dish does not look that interesting, but the taste is undescribeable, spinach in soup with different textures of eggs.

Fried Rice ~ I was too full, didnt have any of the fried rice

Friday, June 17, 2011

Iron Chef Cabramatta

Sunday, 08/05/2011
Whoopps I am very behind with my blogging coz I have been buried with work. After I got back from holiday I got like 440+ emails to action, took me about 1.5 week to go through & action all of them. I have been working like crazy to get my head above the water & when I get home I am quite exhausted to do anything. Anyway...enough whining, smile ... tomorrow is Friday !!

A few friends have been recommending Iron Chef (located in a suburb called Cabramatta). I haven't made any effort at all to go there, it is a little far from where I live. Such a coincidence that G picked Iron Chef for his birthday this year..woohoo. I finally have a valid excuse to go there to try their food.

We are unfamiliar with the Cabramatta area & how to get there business...thank God for the invention of GPS we reached Cabramatta (suburb - Sydney's little Vietnamese town) in 45 mins. Parking hunt took us about 10 minutes. The restaurant is massive with typical Chinese decor, fish tanks & the 2 dragons on the main entrance. It was packed on a Sunday night which is a good sign.

As usual, my gang over ordered everything, nothing new really =)
All the dishes are tasty, mostly lean meat, nicely presented and generous portion. The only downfall on that night was slow service & lack of staff .... perhaps it just happened that Mother's Day was on the same day as G's party. I will definitely go back for their roast duck. Thank you G for the great party !!