Yum Cha @ Sunny Harbour Seafood Restaurant, Hurstville

Posted by kogepanman in , , , , , , on Monday, May 18, 2009

Lazy Sunday Yum Cha

Woke up before midday for once and so decided to make the most of it and go to Yum Cha!

We decided to go to Sunny Harbour seafood restaurant in Hurstville after a consideration of proximity vs. quality of food. Whilst Sunny's is the closest one, the dishes there aren't the best yum cha food I've tasted. However, it is not bad and is close by so we opted to compromise.

Chinese tea

First dish the standard dish for yumcha- prawn dumplings. Four juicy prawn dumplings with chilli dipping sauce- delicious!

Prawn dumplings

Next up is another yumcha favourite- siu ma (pork dumplings). Can't fault the dim sum chef for these beauties! Scoffed up in a minute!

Siu mai

Followed by glutinous rice rolls two ways - with prawn filling and with fried dough filling. The prawn rolls are impeccable, whilst the fried dough rolls are a bit tough on the inside and appears as though the dough wasn't freshly fried.

Prawn rolls

Fried dough rolls

Then against our normal yumcha tradition of only ordering steamed dishes, and despite the oily and deep-friedness of it all, we couldn't resist but order the freshly fried salt and pepper white bite. A smallish serving, but the crunchy texture of the batter was more than satisfying :)

Salt and Pepper white bait

Next dish was back to the chinese tradition of eating 'inside something'- tripe! Nice flavour but smallish serving considering the base was chinese radish and not all tripe. And sticky rice in lotus leaf.

Tripe

Sticky rice package

Last but not least, the sweet dim sims of lotus seed bun, custard bun and egg tart.

Lotus seed paste buns (spherical shape)

Custard buns (can differentiate from above as they have an elliptical shape)

Egg tart (comes in 2 but I ate one immediately- it was really fresh!)

Total damage- approximately $75 dollars incl. tip - Not bad for a lazy Sunday 'drink tea' session :P

The ubiquitous bill

Sunny Harbour Seafood Restaurant
9-11 Crofts Avenue
Hurstville
(02) 9585 1633
Hours: Daily, 10am-3pm, 6-11pm

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