My Chinese Kitchen - Burwood

We ordered the Nanjing duck, the Yangzhou meatballs and the pork in special sauce. The pork was the undisputed winner. It's hard to beat a fork-tender piece of meat braised in a delicious, slightly sweet sauce complemented by plain white rice. The other two dishes were solid but had a tough act to follow. The duck didn't look appetising as it was so pale but we enjoyed the natural flavours of the meat. Having said that, a sauce would make it more interesting. The large meatballs came with bean thread noodles (tang hoon). Meatballs were a little mushy in texture for me but that might be the way they're meant to be? I'm not familiar enough with Huaiyang cuisine to comment! Overall, the food was tasty and I'd happily return.

I went there without any expectations and was highly disappointed and angry. (apparently it is very busy usually and people book there first before going but we got lucky - I don't know see why so many people go though) Firstly, we were sitting there for perhaps 5-10 min as they cleaned up the table for us and then spent another 5min staring around aimlessly until they gave us a menu. Secondly, it took so long for the food to arrive- by the way, we ordered pretty simple dishes such as some buns which they probably just had to place into the oven to warm it up for a bit but still took ages. Thirdly, every dish was TOO SALTY, even the dishes they had strongly recommended to us. Even I with my savoury tongue could not handle it- it was as if they forgot to look at how much salt to put in. It was so salty that we were very tempted to order multiple bowls of plain rice (but didn't as we ordered fried rice- which was also very salty) and had to have a bowl of water to wash down the food. Perhaps the only good things there were the tea (to cleanse the salt), the atmosphere- there was a friendly buzz of chatter- and one of the waitresses (she was exceptionally polite and informative). Strongly do not recommend this place!

I went there without any expectations and was highly disappointed and angry. (apparently it is very busy usually and people book there first before going but we got lucky - I don't know see why so many people go though) Firstly, we were sitting there for perhaps 5-10 min as they cleaned up the table for us and then spent another 5min staring around aimlessly until they gave us a menu. Secondly, it took so long for the food to arrive- by the way, we ordered pretty simple dishes such as some buns which they probably just had to place into the oven to warm it up for a bit but still took ages. Thirdly, every dish was TOO SALTY, even the dishes they had strongly recommended to us. Even I with my savoury tongue could not handle it- it was as if they forgot to look at how much salt to put in. It was so salty that we were very tempted to order multiple bowls of plain rice (but didn't as we ordered fried rice- which was also very salty) and had to have a bowl of water to... read more

Having been to this restaurant a couple of times before, I had been impressed with the authentic taste of many dishes. However, one dish the other night tasted completely off. The owner stubbornly denied that anything was wrong with the dish. Service otherwise was fine, and the other dishes were pleasant.

Had the $39 deal, 2 dishes and included soup and vegetables and rice. It was good overall, we had the pepper beef or something like that, the dish was okay but the beef had more chewy bits than i would have liked. The other dish was egg plant which i really enjoyed, it was like potato wedges, crunchy and covered in a sweet sauce, eat it quickly before it gets soggy.