12 January 2016

The Seasiders Restaurant ~ Chinese, Burwood

We're just back from three weeks in Thailand and we're aching for a serious Chinese feed. A reader told us about The Seasiders Restaurant in Burwood saying it was pretty seriously Chinese, a student favourite, so we give it a whirl.




This is our favourite kind of Chinese place, down to earth with a menu chockers with dishes we've never tried before. We are already planning another visit while trying to decide what we will eat on our first one. There's char grill and griddle dishes, pork hocks, bones and intestines, sea cucumber, jellyfish, crab as well as noodles, shallot pancakes and a host of vegetables done in all ways.


Stir fried clams with chili - $12.80. In a brown soya based kinda sauce with the joyous kicks of roasted chillis. The shells make convenient little spoons to scoop up the left over sauce. Clams done like this make an excellent slashie dish, they're a combo of entree/main meal/light starter/seafood platter that pleases everyone.



Mixed Cold dishes $10.80. In the Sydney summer heat a cold dish always goes well with hotter chilli ones. The dish comes out with cold bean thread noodles in the centre, cucumbers, shredded radish, a small amount of shredded pork and thinly sliced noodle like tofu skin arranged all pretty like on a platter.


The sauce looks mighty bitey but it's not so tuff. Chili, sesame and Sichuan pepper, it's like dan dan in a small bowl. We didn't know how to eat it so we just started dunking stuff in the sauce until the super lovely waitress showed us what to do, which is to mix everything together on the one plate, sauce and all.



The mix of noodly textures and vegetables was light and refreshing. Hoorah.





Salted smooky pork with bamboo shoots - $18.80. We believe smooky means half way between smokey and schmoopy. The smooky pork was like thick salty smokey bacon, very much like speck. The bamboo was a surprise, long skinny green strands, a nice plain counter to the smookey pork. We are more used to the pale yellow root being used so to see its upper parts was really interesting. It's a little bit chewy, but was a difference to getting the usual green beans.



The Seasiders Restaurant Menu - click to enlarge...


The Seasiders Restaurant Menu - click to enlarge...


The Seasiders Restaurant Menu - click to enlarge...


The Seasiders Restaurant Menu - click to enlarge...


The Seasiders Restaurant Menu - click to enlarge...


The Seasiders Restaurant Menu - click to enlarge...


The Seasiders Restaurant Menu - click to enlarge...


The Seasiders Restaurant Menu - click to enlarge...


The Seasiders Restaurant Menu - click to enlarge...


The Seasiders Restaurant Menu - click to enlarge...


The Seasiders Restaurant Menu - click to enlarge... We noticed a keg and tap set up near the fish tank, might try a cool draft beer next time.


The Seasiders Restaurant is nowhere near the sea, it's in Burwood, the birthplace of AC/DC and home to many tops aunties. 177 Burwood Road to be precise. Phone 9745 3986.

Thanks for the recommendation, Nic!




The Seasiders Restaurant Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato

1 comment:

  1. Looks great! Such a long menu. Keen to try sea cucumber. Let me know if you go again I would 100% like to join you.

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