On Friday night, I went to Dumplings Plus on Swanston St. with a variety of friends. It was very disappointing. The chive dumplings had us burping up chive breath and the xiaolongbaos were so overcooked, the skins had broken in the steamer and the juice had streamed out! Very underwhelming. The food may be cheap (less than $10/dish) and the servings large but I felt it was not very good. You may take that as a review.
Later that night, RachiePoo asked me what I would be doing on Saturday. The answer was, "I'm going to pick up Pooey from the airport and then we're going to have lunch, probably at Noodle Kingdom in Preston. Want to come?" She said yes and it was decided that I'd pick her up before going to the airport.
Yes, the service at Noodle Kingdom isn't great - despite being a teeny 47/48kg, RachiePoo the heifer was asked to leave more space in the walkway. But at less than $50 for four HUGE dishes plus 3 bubble tea drinks, it was awesome and MUCH BETTER than Dumplings Plus. We got the zhajianmian (Chinese spagbol - the dish Marco Polo ripped off), dandanmian (much better flavour and nutty/sesame than the one we had the night before), xiaolongbao (no torn wrappings!), and some meat harmonicas. Okay, they were cumin-spiced mutton ribs. I felt so proud as we three small Asian chicks demolished all that food. It was awesome.
Believe it or not, Pooey got her blog up earlier than me so you can check out her entry for thoughts and pics of the meat harmonica!
2 comments:
Yay for meat harmonicas!!!
Noodle Kingdom 1 and Dumplings Plus 0
i want some more meat harmonicas.. but maybe not so fatty next time
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