Monday, August 16, 2010

ITaiwan - trying out the new Taiwanese restaurant on Dixon Street

It might be hustle and bustle outside on Dixon, but inside the cool black interior of this hideaway Taiwanese retreat you can smooth off your feathers and chill while the food comes out (bring friends or a book cos service ain't speedy)



Sweet and sour fish dish with pineapple chunks and capsicum, for halal boy
Didn't really wow us


Pig's ears. My korean friend is weird so he likes to try weird foods
There were other weird things, like chicken tongues
Served cold and slippery, like crunchy brown jellyfish


Piping hot wintermelon and pork bone soup, this was awesome
Warm and comforting love4u!


The "set" - rice with stir-fried braised pork and mushroom, served with a boiled tea egg
Pretty good but way smaller than the picture made it seem.
Generally picture menus are great cos it means you don't get conned into ordering something lame, but in this case they needed to add a ruler for scale


Crispy bleeding taiwanese omelette
All I can say is: crispy bleeding fantastic!
I love anything with fried egg.
All foods can be improved if we were just to add a fried egg on top. Noodles, fried rice, banana sandwiches. Even birthday cake

Overall: food is not overly exciting but good place for chatty catch-ups
Would I go back? probably not cos there are better places in chinatown... mamak superbowl wagaya, but maybe for the egg/soup. It's pretty inside though! And there's a cosy upstairs with more touch screen TVs (yes that's right.. touch screen!) with more pretty seating and air-conditioning.


BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE
Published monthly, Fashionable Eye is the authority lifestyle guide of 'the tens', covering music, food and recreation for Sydney-siders. Foodchaser is proud to have contributed the guest post under the food section (what else!) for this month. Big thanks to Fashionable Eye for an awesome meal, you can check out the August issue here.

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