Dim sum lunch at Red Bowl Restaurant

Hehehe...finally get this started!

This is my first time 'officially' writing down personal opinions about
food, obviously my very top hobby. Hopefully I could share some
interesting thoughts and flavours...merely opinions, but I guess it'd
be fun!

Well well, how should we start?
Originally I was thinking to write every time when I use an entertainment
book voucher and visit a restaurant. It'll be good at the end of the
year to see I've visited so many different places tasted different stuff..(and
spent the $$..) Anyways. 
Then I realised I could also put food I make and show off some
of the yummy tastes invented at home..of course they must be nice!

Let's save the words and see what we have today.


It's Red Bowl, a Chinese restaurant quite near Riccarton mall.

I've been there once but only had dinner.
Today was there for yum cha (aka dim sum) at lunch time.


The very first thing was the fried eggplant with a bit mince in the middle.
Sounds like eggplant oreo...hahaha

The eggplant was soft with the deep fried batter. Tastes quite good, not as
good as I had last time actually. I felt the oil for deep fry wasn't very fresh,
resulting an interesting taste in the eggplant. The eggplant skin was a but
hard. Presentation was great though.

We finished that one quite quickly and comes the next. Prawn dumplings.
Crispy prawns inside, the size was smaller compared with other restaurants.
Just like one-bite dumpling.

Then comes the next dish. We started to realise that this restaurant
serves smaller size than others. The deep fried pork crescent. 
This kind of dumpling is made from sticky rice, maybe with wee sugar
mixed to balance the flavour. Inside was some mince.

I was curious with the appearance of it. I thought it will be golden,
very full and round when they are fried. These one seem a bit skinny. LOL

Then we had some chicken feet which is something that will always scare
my homestay *giggle*
This was bit spicy, with the soy sauce as its base.

The beef shin tendons. Usually I ordered this because it's hard to cook
at home. Takes forever to get it cooked thoroughly, but I love them
when they're tender. Soft and 'sticky'!
But unfortunately this one wasn't very impressive. Didn't taste anything
other than garlic. And it's not cooked in soy sauce. Taste like curry too.

The 'Spinach Dumplings' came next. But something wrong was sent to us..I think they're the coriander dumplings?

Then it's the last dish...whoa..I'm a tired actually :P

This one, well, was really not so good. The pork ribs seemed not processed properly so they still contained some weired flavour..was a bit unpleasant. Plus the rice vermicelli was in good shape but didn't stay in good shape once they're touched...they became mashy.

General dining experience was ok. But don't know when will return again.

See you next time! :)