The contents of this blog are matters of opinion formed over one more visits. There has been some artistry applied and metaphors and similes should not necessarily be taken literally. All meals are independently paid for - the author has no conflicts of interest to disclose.
I truly cannot believe how terrible this is. It is so dry and crumbly, too sweet, similar in quality to Ülker Halley’s (Turkish) variant, and overall inferior to both competing choco pie products from Orion and Lotte.
The worst part was that I had to buy a whole bag of them. 10 for $6, even more expensive than Lotte, and coming close to Orion prices.
The Chinese domestic market simply cannot compete in some regards, which explains why I’ve never seen this in Australia before now, and will never buy it again.
The initial part of this review is for the Pork Bean Curd Roll 鲜竹卷
I rarely ever do frozen grocery reviews (because of pure laziness), but this was actually pretty good. It is a pack of frozen bean curd roll / 鮮竹捲 / xiān zhú juǎn / sin zuk gyun that was only like $7 or something.
They were simple to steam, and though they came out relatively wet, all I had to do to eat them was fish them out with some chopsticks.
The flavour was quite accurate, the bean curd wrapper was soft, and they were packed with meaty filling.
They’re not a luxury meal, I don’t think they’re much worse than what you would get at yum cha. I’d have them again.
Best Flavour Dim Sims Australia 精美点心 Pork Bean Curd Roll 鲜竹卷 UPC 9337087000243
The second part of this review is for the Sticky Rice Chicken 糯米雞 I thought about just adding this onto the existing post about Best Flavour Dim Sims Australia 精美点心’s Pork Bean Curd Roll 鲜竹卷, but felt that restructuring it would be too difficult, as it’s already been published. I will likely come to regret this in the future, as I write reviews for more and more products made by the same companies. That’s a problem for future me, not now me. Amazing, it is a problem for now me after all.
Like the bean curd roll, this lo mai gai is actually also very good, easy to steam at home, and tastes just like the real thing.
The fillings are full of chicken, lap cheung, sticky rice, and a small amount of crispy lotus. The only thing missing is a salted egg yolk, which to be honest isn’t always present at yum cha nuò mǐ jī anyway.
Once again, I can wholeheartedly recommend.
Best Flavour Dim Sims Australia 精美点心Sticky Rice Chicken 糯米雞 UPC 9337087000441
I went out of my way between night shfits looking for some deep fried mini shrimp heads to bring to work, but could only find these deep fried baby crabs.
As deep fried baby crabs go, these certainly did the job. They had quite a nice seafoody umami taste, though were quite oily and would be really at the apex of any food pyramid as a sometimes only treat.
The only bad thing about them is how slightly freaky the little crab bodies look. I recommend first having a few with your eyes closed, so that you can enjoy them before you look at them.
Today’s review is about Man Xiao Bao’s Fat Sauce Ramen. There doesn’t appear to be any official English translation for the name, but I think fat sauce, or grease sauce works pretty well.
The packaging is extremely elaborate, with no less than seven individually packed components, consisting of noodles, fried tofu wrapper, dried coriander, ghost chilli powder, bean sprouts in vinegar, more vinegar, meaty greasy sauce, and of course noodles.
The cooking instructions were translated by Google Translate as I’m a bit of a 文盲. Essentially the noodles are cooked separately and drained, then the toppings, then it’s all mixed together. Despite the seven component smorgasbord, the bok choy and egg pictured on the packet was not included, and had to be added separately.
Luckily, I had some bok choy in the fridge, and some of the excellent 78 degree snack eggs from Weilong in the pantry.
Taste wise, I found these noodles to be unfortunately extremely sour. It is probably my fault that I didn’t read the (CHINESE) instructions on the little sauce packets themselves, which if I did I would know that I was meant to adjust the amount to put in by personal preference. Still, I can’t imagine that anyone would want to put all of that vinegar sauce in.
The famed combination of stewed bone soup, fried meat paste, and braised grease sauce, as appetizing as those components once translated into English, were not perceptible to me.
I overall did not enjoy this, despite the journey of putting it all together, and won’t be buying this again willingly.
Man Xiao Bao Fat Sauce Ramen (满小饱肥汁拉面) UPC 6973279800241
While I guess some of the grocery posts on this blog have worldwide appeal, much of what I eat from the local Asian grocery store is made here in Sydney, and only available at a few places. This makes me writing this essentially useless, as the likelihood of even a single person reading this and then deciding to buy or not buy these wontons is exceedingly low.
Despite this, I thought the Prestons Foods Pork & Garlic Chive Wontons to be quite solid. The filling was generous and had a good meaty texture and good chivey flavour. I’d eat them again.
