Glamorous Wok

They don't actually have a cool sign, just a lot of photos

I wanted to hit up Sunnybank and get some food one night. We wandered around for a while before heading to Sunny Park. I remembered this spot because L., had recommended somewhere in Sunnybank that served authentic Taiwanese food and I think this was it!

The glamorous entrance

The menu looked really good with multiple glossy pages, low prices, a large vegetarian section and lots and lots of badly spelled translations.

Drinks!

All the drinks, along with their names in Mandarin

More drinks

This is interesting?

Yowza 400 dollars for a meal?

There was a large drinks menu of teas/bubble teas but we just got a boring lemon, lime and bitters as well as the usual Sprite. Not sure why I got so much ice in my drink. The waiter who gave us this drink, was shocked when the straw bounced out due to the bubbles, apologised in this very startled manner and went running off to get another straw.

Lemon limes on the left, Sprite on the right

I think like most people who enjoy eating, I am obsessed with fried chicken. I was unsure which one to get but ended up getting the salt and pepper deep fried chicken cause it was cheaper and the picture looked so sparkly delicious. It was a good choice, every table in the restaurant had a basket of this stuff. It was a lovely golden brown crunchy batter, with the salt and pepper inside the batter itself, the chicken was moist and used all sorts of dark and white chunks of meat. I would go back here just for the chicken.

So good.

I picked the spainach with satay sauce, that was exactly how it was spelled on the menu. It was a decent water spinach, there were strips of tofu which weren't great and lots and lots of ginger. There was so much ginger, huge chunks of the stuff absolutely everywhere. I appreciate subtle ginger, I hate large bits of it and I ate more ginger accidentally in this dish than I have had all year.

So much ginger. There are at least 11 pieces in this photo

Fuzhou fried rice was next on the agenda, fluffy fried rice with eggs, scallop, prawn and oyster mushroom pieces drowned in a thick brown gravy. Delicious! It was very interesting to go from the different textures of the seafood and I love the thickness of that gravy soaking into the rice. Probably not the best thing to go with absorbing sauces and stuff since it had its own sauce. I did scoop off the sauce thought which revealed a layer of eggy fried rice, that was good.

Dat gravy.

My Boyfriend picked black pepper chicken on a sizzling plate. I've got mixed feelings about sizzling plates, I like the smell and the enticing sounds when they arrive at your table, but I'm also the kind of impatient fool who goes grabbing at the hot plate to bring it much closer.The chicken was good, moist and tasty if even randomly sized chunks, the capsicum was good quality still crunchy despite being briefly cooked in the sauce and huge chunks of onion as you can see. The sauce was interesting, I'm not sure if good or bad, it was very peppery, evidence enough from the myriad of black pepper shards throughout the dish and had a good bite. I really liked that you could easily detect the freshness of that cracked pepper. The rest of the sauce had an unusual sweetness that I couldn't put my finger on, but it reminded me of a not so sour, sweet and sour sauce.

Tasty, I think.

This was our bill by the way. Can you see why I thought it was so amusing I had to take a photo?

Check out the items.

On reviewing the pictures for this, my Boyfriend commented that my picture taking is getting much better which makes me happy as his father is, amongst many, many other talents, an award winning nature photographer. Then I look back and notice all the incredibly blurry shots I've also uploaded. Ah well, win some, you lose some.

Glamorous Wok
Atmosphere: 6, typical Asian restaurant with a little bar area. Very, very bright, I really disliked how shiny the lights made everything look but that's only because it interferes with taking photos.
Service: 6, very, very, very enthusiastic waiters and waitresses. Also a little bit pushy, I think we were asked about 5 times whether we were ready to order while we were getting photos and perusing the menu. They thanked us for moving things around the table, got our plates off the table early on, put away our leftovers in doggy bags without being asked and were just very energetic people.We were ignored at the end however when we were trying to get our bill.
Food: 8, both of those chicken, that fried rice. Amazing. The spainach? Not so much so. I would go here again with VGirl and hopefully she can try some new veggo food.