It's difficult to find a great restaurant on Burwood Rd, it's kind of like playing the lottery, you…read morecan never be sure if the place you're dining at is going to be a dud or a real winner. Lucky for me, one of my friends had recommended this Taiwanese Dumpling restaurant.
Having never ordered here before, the group of friends I was dining with ordered a variety of dishes that included a mix of 20 dumplings, fried vegetable noodles and two other items that were circled in the menu, indicating it was one of the restaurant's specials. These were the shallot pancake and the beef noodle soup, both of which were the favourite items by far I tasted there.
The Beef Noodle Soup was very surprising, unlike the Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup, this Taiwanese version had large chunks of beef, that were slow cooked and so tender they melted in your mouth. The soup also had a slight sweet aroma to it, that made it unlike a lot of other noodle soup dishes I've tried before and tasted very delicious.
The shallot pancake too was very crispy, had the texture of an oily, flaky, thin pizza bread, although tasted more similar to an indian roti bread with a hint of the onion flavour that the shallots added.
This is a good place to visit when you're in a pickle and needing to pick a good restaurant to dine at on Burwood road.
