Having moved to the area, it's interesting exploring eating around here. And I'd suggest giving this place a miss. Maybe three days into the Christmas weekend is not a fair time to judge, as the little places have been stretching their food supplies for three days in a holiday period.
But...here was the take-away experience:
- The Special Fried Rice was passable, the rice was definitely old recycled cooked rice, dried out - but the flavours were just ok
- Lemon chicken - nicely crispy pieces, the sauce was a bit strong smelling (vinegary)
- Chicken, vergetables and crisp fried noodles - ok, but much too oily
- Beef in satay sauce ; Really really bad, smelt bad and seemed like they had used an old packet of satay sauce, like you see on the shelves of pokey Asian food stores. I'm fine with people using commercial sauces - but use them well, and use good quality.
In hindsight, a simple rule is: Don't order a Malaysian dish in an obviously Cantonese/Northern Chinese suburban restaurant. You're courting failure .... and it was a big fail.
The Experience-based Moral:
Research your take-away target on the web, but if they are closed like ours was (The Mitcham Noodle Bar), don't drive around looking for one - (low probability of success), instead go to one you know (which we should have done).
Oh...and the dishes were around $17-20 each. For suburban takeaway in Melbourne, paying those prices for poor food is completely unwarranted/outrageous
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