Hello all my sweet little pumpkin tatter tots! Okay, not sure what I said... Maybe I've completely lost it. This time of the year has always been a little chaotic, especially with the holiday season slowly approaching. Ah, too many things to do and not enough time. Who else feels this way?
As some of you may have noticed, I am currently having problems with my domain name. Sigh, too much of a tech n00b unfortunately. However, I am working on it (well, I will get to it) to get it fixed and up and running again soon. But for the time being I am reverting back to blogspot.com - thank you for your patience!
To drown my sorrows (any excuse to eat), I really wanted some thick toast with kaya butter and a big bowl of laksa. But as luck would have it, Paparich at Parra was closed for renovations or something when we were there. Scurrying around Parra with Urbanspoon, we just settled on this unassuming Chinese restaurant to get our noodle fix.
Some special Shanghai noodles with pork $9-10?
I wanted to order this dish but Rvr decided first even though he knows I have this thing with ordering different dishes to try different things. This dish took me back to my mornings in China where mum and I would have a small bowl of noodle soup with some sort of pork mince and pickles to start a full day of exploring. The clear broth that had some depths of flavour, but was that much better after a heaping of chilli oil.
Noodles with Deep Fried Pork Ribs $9?
Unfortunately, in my surge hunger I forgot to take down the the menu item names and prices -_-" The soup was very basic stock but at least didn't taste very MSG-ish. A simple rice noodle with bok choy dish. Of course, it wasn't that peasantry and came with a side of deep fried pork ribs (!!). Crispy, oily, fatty pork ribs - I die. Well seasoned, nice amount of meat and generous serving of ribs, yumyumyum.
Crispy golden deliciousness
Pork and Chive Dumplings $8? (small serving)
Of course, we couldn't have Chinese food without ordering some dumplings. While these were good, they weren't great. The pastry was a tad thick, but the filling was flavoursome. Generous serving for the price and we still stuffed our faces until we food coma and died.
I've read a couple of reviews that complained about service, however, though the staff were a bit inattentive they were quite welcoming to us. Not sure what people expect for a cheap, no frills restaurant, but I'd happily come back for a noodle fix (yay, no more driving to Ashfield!).
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