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Chinese

Silver Territory Seafood Restaurant, 京唐海鲜酒家 – Burwood NSW Restauarant Review

We’ve been to Silver Territory an unusual number of times (4 within the last 6 months) with our friends WHJ XWO CJP and NT, but they have yet to disappoint, both in terms of a regular succulent Chinese sit-down meal, as well as for their yum cha offerings.

I will bore you only with some brief dot-pointed thoughts, after which you may feast your eyes on some photos:

  • Our first visit was meant to be for their evening yum-cha offering, but we found that this only happened on certain nights of the week, and we had to order from a usual formal Chinese menu instead. This was actually quite good, the kind of dinner my parents would have.
  • Of the sit down dishes, the king prawn omlette I thought was really good and creamy.
  • Of the yum cha dishes, their chives and prawn dumplings were good, their chicken feet were good, in fact most things were good.
  • Perhaps the goodest or most interesting was their radish cake, a yum cha item that will gain a spot as a featured item below, chopped up into bite sized portions and stir fried rather than served as large slabs. Much oil, much wok hei, much delicious.

Verdict

This restaurant is not better or worse than any other yum cha establishment in Burwood. Solid, in fact, and usually a shorter queue but more rapid and Chinese style service than Royal Treasure Seafood Restaurant in Emerald Square.

Silver Territory Seafood Restaurant, 京唐海鲜酒家
208 Burwood Rd, Burwood NSW 2134
0431 886 552

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American

Marci Lou’s Burger Co – Belmore NSW Restaurant Review

This burger truck is just down the road from where I live, but with difficult access as it’s right on Canterbury Rd (hint: we like to park on Platts Avenue, approaching westbound on Canterbury Rd). We’ve gone a couple of times, mostly on Tuesdays, to take advantage of their excellent value $9 Tuesdays single-patty burger deal.

Though the exact details of what we ate have been forgotten, my general impressions of this burger shop are as follows:

  • The chips have always been made fresh for us, and have always been great. Sadly there is no discount for them on Tuesdays
  • The burgers are solid, though their beef offerings I think are more solid than their chicken offerings.
  • There’s a real texture to their beef, that sets them apart from some rivals with softer beef patties.
  • I preferred their beef burger to their truff burger
  • $7 single patty burgers on Tuesdays were an absolute bargain, I think they’re now $9 each, which is still pretty good.
  • See if you can call ahead, the wait can be long-ish, and the waiting conditions aren’t particularly pleasant

I do sincerely hope they survive Chubby Buns apparently impending opening across the road.

Marci Lou’s Burger Co Belmore
668 Canterbury Rd, Belmore NSW 2192
0404236368

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Asian Fusion Café

Queen St Cafe – Berry NSW Restaurant Review

Queen St Cafe, not to be confused with Queen St Eatery, also on Queen St in Berry, is a quiet cafe tucked towards the back of an indoor arcade with what seems like a high tea focus, unusually with very large plates, and an assortment of unusual chairs (not photographed). We took advantage of my temporary residence in Nowra to explore Queen St Cafe’s non-high tea offerings, an all day lunch menu.

These is the lobster po boys ($30), which featured much bread within which was stuffed southern fried lobster tails, slaw, frie donions, shallots, coriander, and hot sauce. For an additional $2 (a total of $32 for this large plate of moderate food, our house fries were upgraded to truffle fries. This was no doubt an expensive choice from a menu of expensive choices. We do like a good lobster though, and this deep fried lobster did fulfill that craving. They did I think overuse the mayonnaise and probably also oversalted everything. The chips were fresh, which is what you would expect at this price point.

The Japanese pancake ($20) with cabbage, broccoli, carrot, red onion, wakame, sesame seeds, a poached egg, ginger, tokatsu sauce and mayonnaise was Berry’s local take on an okonomoyaki. Whilst there was a bit more flour that I would’ve expected from a usual okonomoyaki and they had run out of bonito flakes for the day, the flavours of this dish were actually quite accurate and pleasing – a mixture of salty, tangy and umami. It was honestly pretty good, though they could have standed being a little more light handed with the sauce.

COMMENTS At the end of the day, there are a lot of options for food in Berry. Whilst Queen St Cafe was not bad, it wasn’t what I would recommend if you only had time in town for one or two meals.

Queen St Cafe
94 Queen St Shop 5, Stan Burt Arcade, Berry NSW 2535
(02) 4444 4612

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Korean Snacks

Seaworld Fried Baby Crab Chips 티각태각 꽃게부각

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.

Seaworld Fried Baby Crab Chips 티각태각 꽃게부각
UPC 8809406282704

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Chinese

Yang’s Dumpling – Burwood NSW Restaurant Review

Whilst we’ve parked frequently outside Yang’s Dumpling on our way to other restaurants we’d not, until now, ventured inside. We ordered a surprising amount of food for two humans trying to save for a deposit for residential property in Sydney, and much to our detriment, it wasn’t all good.

We had a combination of pan-fried pork buns (3) and pan-fried pork & prawn buns (3) for $13.80, but sadly only received two pork and prawn buns and four usual pork buns, the sesame colour-scheme system clearly failing them and us. Whilst the pork and prawn ones were nice and fresh and tasty, the lack of a third bun meant that I didn’t get a good interior shot of them.

The pan-fried pork buns were sadly not as good as the pork and prawn buns because they simply weren’t hot and fresh. These buns are not quite sheng jiang bao as they were not filled with soup, though they did have (or were meant to have) a crispy base.

The pan-fried vegetable and pork buns (4 for $9.80) were pretty good though. It’s really heat dependent.

The xiao long bao (6 for $9.80) had a strange taste and we did not finish them.

The pan-fried vegetable and pork dumplings ($11.80) were also not warm!

Love a good tea/soy egg though.

GENERAL THOUGHTS
It was a real shame that a lot of what we ordered just wasn’t fresh and warm. The things that were fresh were pretty good, but the enjoyment of pan fried dumplings is really dependent on their warmth and crispiness. I guess they must not be cooked to order, which I think is below the bar set by most establishments that sell food.

Yang’s Dumpling Burwood
Shop 9, 11-15 Deane St, Burwood NSW 2134
(02) 8057 7109