Eating Out

Went to Northbridge for lunch again over the weekend Saturday. Tried another restaurant, Dragon Seafood Restaurant (66 - 72 Francis St Northbridge 6003 Tel 08 9227 8882) this time for dim sum. We've always driven passed this place many times and noticed that it was always pretty crowded for lunch and so we decided to try it out. It is easy to find as it is pretty big and there's a KTV upstairs.

During lunch, there's extra seating space upstairs at the KTV lounge and if you are willing to go upstairs instead, the queue can be pretty fast. (I got our seats almost immediately after getting in to the restaurant while hubby went looking for a parking lot.) The disadvantage is that the carts don't come around as often and the seats can be a bit uncomfortable as they are the bar stools type and they swing around easily. Otherwise, you get the same food but the more popular ones get brought up more often and you may need to order the less popular ones as they don't make their round up here sometimes.

There are quite a number of waiters and waitresses around. The lady who served me was really helpful and friendly. She whipped out her own mobile when I apologetically asked to borrow a phone to inform hubby where our seats were. I had forgotten to take mine out that morning.

We ordered our usual char siew bun, siew mai, xiao long bao and char siew cheong fun. This time we added glutinous rice, har gao, baked char siew buns (the ones that are brown) and durian puff. We ordered the fried carrot cake but it took forever to arrived. It actually arrived after we've paid up. Food wise I think it's slightly better than Dim Sim Cafe, at least the bun has slightly more meat and less doughy. We can taste the durian in the durian puff but I didn't really like the overall texture as it felt a bit too dry and the taste of durian was not strong enough for wife's taste buds . At the end of it, we ordered 9 dishes this time round and the bill came up to $44.50 for the 2 of us. I think we must definitely look at eating something besides dim sum every weekend.


During lunch yesterday, we went to Market City Canning Vale to get our grocery shopping done and usually we'll drop by the food court in it to grab our brunch. We'll usually have a big breakfast which for $9.90, it's quite a value for money. It has 2 eggs, a sausage, bacon, mushrooms, 2 toasts, half a tomato and a hot drink. It is definitely enough for a big eater like me and usually I've to help my wife finish her portion too.


After brunch, we bought our vegetables and meat in the market and managed to get a fin from a skate. Will definitely use it to make something similar to the bbq sting ray we have back in Sin. Yum yum.

For dinner yesterday, we went to Spencer Village Food Court at Spencer Rd, Thornlie. It is unique in the sense that all the shops there sell only Asian food. It really reminds me of a food court in KL. There are at least 10 different shops but at least 4 of them sells almost the same stuff. There's a stall that sells Jap food, a Vietnamese stall, a Singapore style hawker stall, a Penang stall, an Indian briyani stall, a dim sum stall, a Malay stall and a couple of Chinese stalls. There is also a drinks stall where you can get soya milk by the jug and they also sell durian chendol and ice kachang. The food there ain't too bad and I had a plate of Nasi goreng with egg ($7) while my wife had the hor fun ($7).