Hong Kong Style Breakfast In Melbourne

One of the great things about living in Australia is that we are blessed with a wide variety of cuisine from all over the world. There are quite a substantial amount of people from Hong Kong living in Melbourne and the Hong Kong style cafe is not hard to find.

Went to this popular place called New Age Cafe and it was packed with people before lunch time.

Yum Cha On A Lazy Saturday Afternoon

Going to Joyful Chef Restaurant again for the second time in a week! But this time we are having Hong Kong style Dim Sum which they are popular for.

Chicken + Prawn Dumpling, YUM! Not many places serve this type.

All time favourite - egg tart Hong Kong style.

My personal favourite, a must-order: Garlic Chive Prawn Dumpling.

Porridge.

All of the above with tea at A$32.60.

Refer to previous post for address and business hours:

- Joyful Chef Restaurant

Happy Diner

After picking my daughter up from her Chinese class, we went to nearby Hong Kong restaurant called Happy Diner for a simple Saturday lunch.

Looking around the simple decor of the interior with long sticky notes written in Chinese vertically pasted along the wall, and people conversing in Cantonese, it made you feel like you were in Hong Kong. The notice pasted on the wall next to where we sat informed customers that you had to endure sharing table with others (a typical scene in Hong Kong but very uncommon in Australia).

"Please allow for sharing table during peak hours. Thank you for your cooperation."

I ordered the Yunnan Rice Noodle Soup Set which include a standard drink. You get to choose from fish ball, cuttlefish ball, beef ball, pork chop, pork spare ribs, chicken or vegetarian to go with either a clear or spicy soup based.

Hong Kong Milk Tea (奶茶)

Yunnan Rice Noodle Soup with chicken (云南米线)

Cheese on Fried Rice

Dim Sum @ James Street

I'm now in Perth for more than one year and everything is better than Malaysia except food. Being a Penangite, food is an important part of me and I've been searching for good Malaysian food but unfortunately none is as good as what you can find at home.

As with other Australian cities, Perth embraces international communities coming from all over the world with very different cultures and not to mention their cuisines. Asians make up quite a substantial number in their population. This is a good thing because you then get to experience food from around the world.

If there is one Asian cuisine that I think is better than what you could find in Malaysia is definitely the Dim Sum. I've tried various outlets in and around Perth. All of them serve better Dim Sum than back home. Recently, we discovered a place where you think has the best Dim Sum among all that we have tried. It is the Golden Century Seafood Chinese Restaurant at 1/191 James Street, Northbridge.  

The joy of eating Dim Sum is the push carts or trolleys that the waiters bring out and move all around the restaurant. It is like food on parade and we the spectators just sit around and wait for our favourite to arrive. It is definitely a different experience with other cuisine in that you are always waiting for the waiters to surprise you with some fantastic food. The busy and often noisy ambience make you feel like you are not in Australia but in Asia. It is a good place to catch up with friends, eat some good food while sipping Chinese tea or Yum Cha as the Cantonese would call it.

Century Egg Porridge - A must order dish whenever we go for Dim Sum because this is the only food that our 3 year old daughter could eat.

Deep Fried Prawn Dumpling - Not as oily and hard compared to others I have tried which make it very delicious while still managed to retain the juiciness of the prawn meat within.

Beside porridge, egg tart is another Dim Sum dish we would order for our daughter and she loves it!

Fish ball is very common in Malaysian Dim Sum but not so in Perth. Most Dim Sum restaurants don't serve them but the Golden Century does which will surely attract me to their front door more often in the future.

Most dumplings have prawn meat inside and you certain do not wish to order 5 different dumplings with the same common ingredients inside. If you are scratching your head to decide which one to go, I suggest you go for scallop dumpling instead of the usual prawn dumpling.

Soft shell crab - a very uncommon dish for Dim Sum but very delicious, crunchy and juicy at the same time.

Dim Sum @ Victoria Park

As mentioned in the previous post, Victoria Park has many Asian restaurants dotted along the busy Albany Highway due to its proximity to both Perth city center and Curtin University. And it offers an alternative place for people craving for Dim Sum without having to caught up in traffic jam and struggling to find a parking spot in the overcrowded Northbridge or Chinatown.

You can have equally delicious Dim Sum in Emma's Seafood & Dim Sum Restaurant at Victoria Park. The ambiance of the restaurant’s interior is a fusion of East meets West. This place is popular for their lunch or dinner dim sum. As with all other Dim Sum restaurants, waitresses will push their carts around and you just pick whichever dishes that look appealing to you. 

Among the delicious Dim Sum includes: scallop dumpling, egg tart, bbq pork buns, rice flour rolls and deep fried squid tentacles.

Address: 886, Albany Highway, Victoria Park, WA, 6100, Australia.

Century Egg Porridge 皮蛋粥

Dumpling 烧卖

Scallop Dumpling

Vege Dumpling

小笼包

Spacious interior of Emma's Dim Sum Restaurant

Roast Pork Rice @ Victoria Park

Victoria Park is indeed a wonderful place for food with its proximity to Perth city center and yet without the traffic chaos of the CBD. Another major plus point is that parking here are all free! There are plenty of car parks along the street or the nearby huge open car park of Coles shopping center.

Many Asian students live in this area due to its close distance to Curtin University. As a result, Asian restaurants mushrooming along the vibrant Albany Highway to cater to this demand. One of them is the Good One BBQ. Its specialties are Chinese BBQ Hong Kong style.

You can't dine at a Chinese BBQ restaurant without ordering the roast/BBQ meat as it's their specialty after all. The roast pork hanging in the window was particularly enticing to look at and that’s exactly what I ordered. It is a typical Chinese BBQ restaurant where you can listen with drooling anticipation as the chef chopped the meat for your order with a bone-crunching cleaver striking the meat on a thick wooden chopping block. The roast pork is crisp crackling on top followed by a band of soft melting fat, with the thickest layer being salty, meaty and juicy pork. 

My short and brief recommendation is that their Roast Pork Rice is a must try. With only A$10 per plate, it is more than enough for one person. The best time to try this dish is during lunch time when the roast pork are still fresh right from their kitchen behind. 

Address: 808 Albany Highway, East Victoria Park, WA, 6101, Australia.

Good One BBQ Restaurant Main Entrance

Interior of Good One BBQ Restaurant

Roast Pork Rice

Hong Kong Cantonese Cuisine In Perth

Perth has always have a substantial population of Hong Kong people for many decades. Australia has welcomed migrants from all over the world to assist in contributing to their economy and high demand in manpower. When these migrants came to Australia, they brought with them their unique cuisines that has help diversify the available choices of dining experience.

Located in the heart of Northbridge (unofficially known as the Perth's Chinatown); Hong Kong Seafood Chinese Restaurant offers a variety of Hong Kong cuisine to its customers. One of their specialty is their roast pork which also contributed to their original business name of Hong Kong BBQ.

Deep fried Cod fish into attractive golden brown.

Hong Kong style noodle

Spacious and chic interior of Hong Kong Seafood Chinese Restaurant

A must try item: deliciously succulent roast pork!

Roast duck drumstick

One of their signature dish: deep fried bean curd with broccoli

Main entrance of Hong Kong Seafood Chinese Restaurant