Weng Xiao Chu has a small cooked-to-order menu but the real hoo-ha is to be found in their glorious bainmarie-of-love. The food very much reminds us of lunchbar joints we've visited all over China - delicious, quick and healthy - homestyle food, the sign says.
As always, if Weng Xiao Chu appeals to you then get in and try it now, it could be here for a month or a decade, you just never know. The stall is quite popular, we just hope the turnover makes up for the low prices and they stick around for a while, this style of food is quite hard to find in Sydney and we love it so much. For similar homestyle cooking kicks try sniffing around the unis - Zhou Mum feeds UNSW and Chulin Chinese Cuisine & Deli feeds UTS and USYD. Notre Dame students eat at Oporto.
Two choices with rice is $7, but why not go for three choices at $9? Chicken legs in a dark sweet sauce, we get some mixed veggies because Nanna told us too, pickled long beans (like green beans but a little chumpier) with flecks of (pork?) mince for flavour. Eeee!
More mixed veggies with bonus pork and mushies, a most fantastical fish in brown sauce, and an equally fantastical egg and tomato, which has a dash of tomato paste or maybe ketchup making for a deeper tomato flavour, it works wonders.
Aye - this is more colourful - pork ribs - firmly gelatinous, one of those Chinese textures we've grown to adore; mixed veg with a some pork thrown in to ward off hippies; and we go the tomato and egg again, it makes the world better.
Weng Xiao Chu is in the Dixon House Food Court - hidden in the far corner near the loos and the quiet tables where old blokes hang out and watch Ellen - cnr Little Hay and Dixon Street, Chinatown.
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It is a tough gig down the end there, and the stall has closed down. Also the ma la tang has closed down, which is surprising as it seemed successful and busy usually. A couple of other stalls are also closed, and it's looking a little sad down in Dixon House FC.
ReplyDeleteThat’s sad to hear. Strange about the mala tang joint too, I thought this one would survive out of others.
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