One of the curses of modern Chinese take-aways is that they presume all Irish people want their food soaked in sweet chilli sauce. The stuff is disgusting (unless you make it yourself) but all too often the chef in crappy take-aways just gives variations of the same overly sweet chemical tasting rubbish.
Last Saturday we popped in here after being soaked and thought a nice Chinese would cheer us up. It was too wet to walk to Rathmines so we settled for here as it was just across the road from The Morgue pub. We ordered 5 different dishes thinking we'd share and were quite rightly pissed off when we got home and realised that all the food was exactly the same with just more or less soy sauce to alter the colour. Making matters worse was a thick "gravy" that when cold set like cement. Being far too hungry I ate the rice which was good and the fried noodles which were very good, the rest we picked at but mostly went to our appreciative dog.
It's not hard to do Chinese food right - simply, with lots of oil, spices and salt. Not the bucket sauces they're forcing down the throats of an unsuspecting Templeogue. read more