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Cha Dim House 一厘棧 – Burwood NSW Restaurant Review

Cha Dim House 一厘棧 was the first of three Burwood restaurants we ate on a single day, and the first of two of which made up my post-night breakfast with my partner. This particular location was chosen by her in part to help me with my post-night shift decision fatigue.

We had this five spice pork and taro roll 芋絲五香豬肉捲 ($3.80) which was fried, crispy on the outside and tasty, though a little bit salty on the inside. Not bad.

The pork siu mai 猪肉烧卖 (4 for $8.50) was quite well structured, with meat and large prawns however, very very salty, too salty for enjoyment and thus cannot be recommended by me.

The radish cake 蘿葡糕 ($2.30) was pretty good, and not a large price to pay for one variety of food.

The puff pastry egg tarts 酥皮蛋挞, which were $3.50 each were pretty good.

And finally, the steamed pork ribs with black bean sauce 豉汁蒸排骨($10.50) I wouldn’t recommend, given the price, as well as the fact that I’ve easily had better steamed from a frozen pack from one of my preferred frozen dim sum purveyors.

THOUGHTS
Despite variable quality of its offerings, this kind of restaurant is a particularly good place where a solo eater could get a number of different things for a relatively small price. For that reason, it’s not neccessarily a pass.

Cha Dim House 一厘棧
Murray Arcade (Burwood Chinatown), Shop 7, 127/135 Burwood Rd, Burwood NSW 2134

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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