23 April 2010

Simply Noodles Review ~ Chinese - King Street Newtown



Hainanese chicken rice for the soul.

[nb - this place has changed hands since this was posted...]





Simply Noodles Chinese Restaurant King Street Newtown Australia

We are so hungover that we can't make it into town to see a band that we have tickets for (legendary New Zealand band The Bats). It's been one of those wasted days of incurable thirst and merciless self loathing. Miss Chicken wisely decides that eating out is the only solution.

We muster the strength and courage to walk up to King Street. It's busy. Miss Chicken says that there's lots of weird people around Newtown tonight. What's weird in Newton I ask? Lots of drunk yobbos, it's like the afterparty to a bricklayer's convention or something. Normal people are weird in Newtown. We head to Simply Noodles.

Simply Noodles Chinese Restaurant King Street Newtown Australia

I'm craving one of my favourite Chinese comfort foods: Hainanese chicken rice, plain chicken, lightly flavoured rice. Perfect for senstive stomachs. When I eat this dish I have flashbacks of Singapore hawker centres, for a brief moment I'm not hungover, I'm on holiday.

Simply Noodles Chinese Restaurant King Street Newtown Australia

It comes with a delicious sauce of fresh ginger and shallots. It's not my favourite Hainanese chicken rice but it is ok, and it's down the road.

Simply Noodles Chinese Restaurant King Street Newtown Australia

Miss Chicken feels like beef hot pot. Big hunks of beef, plentiful and very chewy. Lovely broccoli.

Simply Noodles Chinese Restaurant King Street Newtown Australia

Simply Noodles is a funkified Chinese eat'n'run place. They have quite a few interesting dishes and they roast their own pork and duck. It's usually busy, the service is fast and the place is super clean, a great venue if you have nervous eater with you. We used to walk past the place and stick our noses in the air because it didn't look grungy enough for our tastes, sometimes we are idiots.

Simply Noodles Chinese Restaurant King Street Newtown Australia

We feel a little better. We stock up on soft drink and chocolate yogo and go home.

Simply Noodles is at 273 King Street Newtown.

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