I was initially very excited to find that there was a new restaurant opening up at the Hyperdome aka my local shopping centre. I know that I say that Garden City is my local but that is because no one would happily claim the Hyperdome as their local. When I saw that this place had opened, I knew I had to go and try their food.
Parking is easy, its at a major shopping centre. Just park down at the Coles end and leg it. It's right in front of Aldi, its hard to miss. Here is their menu, thanks Zomato!
I got the chicken satay skewers as my entree. I found the chicken to be a touch dry with a very heavy hand on the tumeric in their marinade. I was quite saddened that there was no heavy charring or smokey flavour on the chicken. Their satay sauce was quite sweet. It came chopped onion, cuucmber and sour pineapple on the side.
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This was the curry pork rib with noodles. I could not finish this dish, both due to the generous portion sizing as well as the taste not being to my liking. The pork rib pieces that they use are the cartilage heavy, tasty pork rib tips that are loved in Asian cooking. They were smothered in a thick, grainy, spice heavy curry that reminded me of fresh curry powder? I'm not sure how to explain it because the flavour was very familiar but I was unable to really place it or describe it besides, "the equivalent of fresh curry powder."
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I got the teh tarik which was a gigantic delicious serve.
Another reason I didn't finish my meal was the large slick of oil present.
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Malacca Malay
Atmosphere: 5, nothing fancy.
Service: 5, counter service!
Food: 4, not to my liking. I didn't enjoy anything I ate.
L., D., and I go to dinner after work fairly frequently. Where some may balk at the idea of 10-11pm dinner, we relish it! We always go to Sunnybank, specifically Market Square due to the fact that its always open and the exact middle point between our work and home. Unfortunately that means we're fast running out of spots to try because we're always there.
L., suggested this Taiwanese place at the back of Market Square called Deep Fry Master. It has its own parking lot and looks shady. Here is their menu. They have a very extensive menu, lots of snacks, meal options and fried a la carte option.
L., got this noodle soup number with minced pork, an egg, bean sprouts and chives with rice noodles. It also came with a winter melon iced tea. The soup stock have a very clean and mild flavour. It was a surprisingly palatable soup.
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If you don't want any of these meal options you can get an assorted stir fried bag of stuff, with levels of heat available. I seriously have no idea why you would go out to eat this when you could do this at home, maybe you're too lazy to get all the veggies yourself? Pick you choice of ingredients and they'll cook it for you, this bag was cauliflower, cabbage and eggplant at the bottom. All the vegetables were cooked perfectly.
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This was fish cake, a bay leaf, fried livers on a stick and white bait underneath. The fish cakes were soft and chewy with a good flavour, not overly fishy. The liver was covered in a spicy salt and were a touch rubbery. The white bait were actually very large pieces and were big enough to have soft fillets of flesh on them, rather than the crunchy morsels you receive at many places.
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Fry Chicken Master
Atmosphere: 5, it looks like a dining hall for students.
Service: 5, L., took care of the ordering so nothing went wrong.
Food: 5, nothing bad, nothing great. Probably somewhere good to go if you miss these type of restaurants from Taiwan.
