Stepping into the restaurant, you feel like you've been transported back to the 70s/80. It has the typical tacky Chinese restaurant decor, red carpets, yellow/gold wallpapers which they have preserved very well. Chinese restaurants with these decors are getting rarer as new Chinese restaurants tend to go with the modern touch. No doubt there's a sense of nostalgia dining here, bringing you back to childhood memories of going to a Chinese restaurant with the family.
We came here to celebrate early Mother's Day and started the feast with the tea smoked duck which was full of favour. The duck was tender and the smoky flavour of tea was infused throughout the duck. Highly recommend! Next was the lobster cooked with ginger and shallots layered with noodles. Lobster was fresh and cooked perfectly, the meat was bouncy and chewy and complemented well with the noodles. The noodles were not your typical egg noodle, still egg noodles but more like ramen noodles, soft but still bouncy and not mushy. Again, highly recommend.
Next was a prawn roll on top of fried crispy vegetable. Not sure what the vegetable is but it's usually found as a base for fried dishes. These fried crispy vegetables are a bit salty and sweet the complements the prawn roll well. It also is great with rice, similar to furikake. Again, recommend. We then had the Empress Eggplant which was a nice dish with rice. Lastly we had a lotus root dish was sliced and sandwiched between a seafood tofu mix. This was quite interesting and have not had it before.
To end the meal, we had Baked Alaska. Again, this brings back nostalgia as I don't know where else in Sydney you can get Baked Alaska. What better way to bring all the cliche and nostalgia of going to a 70s/80s Chinese Restaurant with Baked Alaska and some fortune cookies?
Amazing food, nostalgic atmosphere, service is very attentive and a great night to celebrate Mother's Day. Can not wait to be back!
Kaytee K