Golden BBQ

I made a new tag a while back called student cheap, that's cheap enough for a student to eat out at, $15 or less for a main including a drink but no dessert. It has to decent enough that you could buy another meal for later on, or bring your mates around for a study session or a quick break from uni here. I initially though of doing a $10 limit but that's near impossible nowadays unless you're buying from one of those small takeaway shops that have like a salad bar and do fish and chips only.

On this occasion my Boyfriend and I were going out . . . to meet up with his parents and his sister, brother in law and nephew who had flown up for the weekend. As always, I was a bit nervous meeting up with his family. I think until I get to know them all better, I'll always be a bit more nervous and I guess you're always more nervous around sisters than brothers. Sisters judge, I know because I am one. Anyway, we meet up at his house and then went off into the city.

Old man just casually strolled into my photo

We headed straight away for Golden Barbeque although yum cha was briefly discussed. I would have never gone into one of these shops if I had been looking for a meal. It's one of those Chinese area essentials where you see sides of roast pork, ducks, chickens, curled up sausages and char siu in the front window and it serves variations on roast meats. In we go!

Not lens flares, just shiny everything.

Everything's chopped, ready for assembling. L-R Soya eggs, cabbage, roasted duck and soya chicken quarters

A massive side of roast pork too!

We got a very wobbly table at the very back of the shop beside the kitchen and were handed these laminated menus.

Getting better at photographing menus!

Same stuff with noodles/rice basically :/

Oh hey choices

And then just meat meat meat

There's a drinks cabinet at the very back near their help yourself hot tea and cold water set up. It had basic Coca-Cola drinks and Lipton Iced teas.

The tea wasn't too bitter actually

Hot dog.

The brother in law picked the char siu and roast pork on top of noodles. I don't think he liked it very much as more than half the meat and noodles were left behind at the end of the meal. You can also see in the corner of the picture the minced ginger, garlic and green onion oil for the roast duck as well as the complimentary soup.

My Boyfriend, his parents and his sister all picked the roasted duck and rice. At the very back there is a side of steamed wombok cabbage. This was finished in its entirety by everyone who ordered it.

Times 4

I on the other hand picked the mighty five treasures, a pick of roast pork, char siu, soya chicken, roast duck and a choice of fried egg or soya eggs. I picked the soya egg because I was interested to see what it was. This is why I left my descriptions of meat until the end because I had a sample of everyone's!

L-R roast duck, char siu, roast pork, soya eggs, wombok on bottom. Soya chicken is hiding

The roast pork is juicy with a nice crunchy and salty golden crackling. The char siu isn't too bad, moist, a bit light on the actual molassy sweet flavour of the basting but still tasty, the colour was nice. The roast duck was tender and juice, had a good layer of fat as well as meat and a crisp skin with no feathers sticking out. The soya chicken was odd, its sort of like a braised/steamed in soy sauce dish and considering the paleness of the chicken, I was really surprised, I was wondering why it was called soya chicken when it honestly looked steamed, not that you can see any in my picture. The soya egg is the same, there is a better flavour in these hard boiled eggs and their whites are slightly darker, but I've had better colour on soya stuff before. All in all, its good but not the greatest examples of any of these barbeque essentials I've had.

Blergh

Here is the complimentary soup that everyone got. Its very cloudy and had pieces of wombok in it I think. Everyone took one sip and pushed it to the side. It didn't really taste like anything besides warm vegetable water. My Boyfriend's dad said, "dishwater would be tastier."

My mouth was on fire.

There is also this super dangerous, dare I say noxious looking homemade garlic and chilli oil/sauce. The oil was delicious and the chilli seeds were firey hot, I dumped it all over my food and some of the oil seeped into my rice. I finished all my food the fastest despite being the last person to receive their meal and I sat there panting for a good five minutes post because of how hot that sauce was. Boy, it was good though!

Golden Barbeque
Atmosphere: 7, could easily be your local super busy, get in, eat and get lost Chinese takeway shop. Laminated menus? Check. Help yourself drinks and tea? Check. Pictures of all the food? Check. Mandarin/English menus? Check. Super busy staff? Check.
Service: 5. We got our food. Yep, that's it.
Food: 6 1/2? I'd go here again, its not the best stuff I've ever tasted barring that garlic and chilli oil, but its a huge feed and for a very good price, I think.