27 August 2020

Chili Express ~ Chinese, Mascot Central

More great zombie-proof dining in Mascot Central.





Outdoor dining is the only solution for us during the zombie apocalypse. Hole-in-the-wall restaurants with outside tables are a rare species, but there are some around. There's a few on Church Street in the newer part of Mascot - a couple of malatangs, a bakery and one stir fry joint - Chili Express.

Chili Express has a great menu, big servings and the food is fantastic. The chili dry pot was amazing and the chef has a knack for making humble vegetables sing. How can bok choy taste that good? 



Groovy interior.



Spicy deep fried chicken in Chonqing style - $22.80. Littley boney bits of chook deep fried and coated with chili and Sichuan paper. Awesome.



Fried Chinese cabbage - $12.80. Brilliantly simple - wok tossed greens with a big salty garlic-y punch. Wish we could cook veggies like this. Oh my god.



Hot & spicy dry pot - about $25. A choose-your-own-adventure dish of meat, veg and roasted chili. 



Green pepper pork and rice - $15. From the lunch specials menu - a seemingly simple stir fry of pork and capsicum strips that is far more than the sum of it's parts. They way they do the veggies in salt'n'garlic here is sublime.




Kung Bao chicken - $15. Another beauty from the lunch specials menu - the ye olde classic of chooky bits in a sweet-ish sauce powered by roasted and fresh chilis, with crunchy peanuts and we like the touch of zucchini. A big serve.



Seafood fried noodle - $15. Another huge lunch special, big enough for a lunch and a dinner, we bring a takeaway container and stash away half of it. If we do it before we start eating we are less likely to overeat, which is really easy to do with fried noodles. These are coated in a sort of a sweet soy sauce, nice and wet.



Chili Express menu...


Chili Express menu...


Chili Express menu...


Chili Express menu...


Chili Express menu...


Chili Express menu...


Chili Express menu...


Chili Express menu...


Chili Express menu...


Chili Express menu...


Chili Express menu...


Chili Express menu...


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Chili Express is at 42 Church Avenue, Mascot.



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