Firstly, I think it’s important to recognise that this restaurant, to a Western outsider like myself, is just known as Yummy Street Food. However, to the cultured few who are able to read Chinese, it’s Fuzhou City Yummy Street Food, meaning that this restaurant serves specifically Fuzhou regional cuisine, which is not immediately apparent to the average Aussie bloke and wasn’t even apparent to me until I was writing this review.
We ate at Fuzhou Yummy Street Food one morning, in a packed restaurant where we had to sit next to a fridge behind a corner. We had a collection of small eats, which I will now describe one by one from what memory I can muster up.
The first thing we received from our order was this deep fried triangle that is really just known as a triangle cake 三角糕 ($3) in Chinese. It is a simple wedge of glutinous rice with a little bit of seasoning and unidentifiable vegetable inside, with a mild flavor a sense that it wasn’t fried in particularly fresh oil and an unenjoyable absence of a warm temperature.
This five-spice roll 五香卷 ($13.80), visually similar to a deep-fried lor bak, was not as good as what I’ve had at for example Malaysian restaurants of a similar nature. In my opinion the filling was quite loosely packed, poorly structured, with more vegetable than meat and with a less crispy bean curd wrapper than you would think from looking at it. It was, overall just not what I was expecting, which likely reflects more on my lack of understanding of Fuzhou regional cuisine than the quality of the food itself, but still this is my blog of my own personal views and I just didn’t enjoy it that much.
The Fuzhou pork wonton soup 肉燕 ($10.80) was interesting, and I’m glad I was able to try it, even though I didn’t enjoy it that much. Basically these little pork wontons are made with a wrapper made of pork skin rather than flour – quite a keto friendly dish and it’s just so deeply Chinese to make an entire dish out of pork. Contrary to the five spice savory roll these wontons were densely these wontons were densely packed with meat. I enjoyed the flavour of the soup, though ultimately I didn’t love the one thing about this dish that actually makes it special – the pork skin wonton wrapper. Despite the novelty that it provided, I guess I didn’t like the texture of it and how it felt like I really had to bite through the wrapper to get to the filling.
Another thing that we had and I didn’t love was the sweet and sour pork ribs with potato in garlic sauce 醉排骨（配土豆）($22.80) , which was not only uncharacteristically expensive for this restaurant but also majority potato as opposed to majority pork. The pork pieces were too highly battered, and the flavor too sweet rather than a balanced sweet and sour.
We also had a hot soy drink no sugar (无糖豆浆 热) ($3), which is what it is and I find it difficult to rate the same drink at a hundred different restaurants in Burwood.
Overall Neither of us particularly enjoyed our visit to Fuzhou City Yummy Street Food. While ordering we thought that there were many things we’d like to try on a subsequent visit however following our meal. I feel it is unlikely we’ll ever return. They really need to add “Fuzhou City” to the English signage.
Fuzhou City (福州城) Yummy Street Food
135 Burwood Rd, Burwood NSW 2134
0424 008 633