China Spice is a new Chinese restaurant offering Sichuan style dishes. It is located at the ground floor of the new Melbourne Star apartment. What a convenient dining place for the new tenants! Well, after passing by this restaurant a couple of times seeing scrumptious dishes on the tables, we decided to check it out on a Saturday night. We arrived at 6:30pm and were seated straight away. However, the queue started to build up at around 7pm.
The decor and lighting of the restaurant is quite pleasant. It's a common design where the kitchen can be seen via windows. However, the chairs and tables are pretty basic and the design of the menu is very ordinary too.
We ordered spicy grilled fish and seafood tofu with 2 bowls of rice. For the fish, we requested it to be less spicy. The fish was served quite quickly. The dish looked pretty and very spicy! Rather than grilled, I reckon the fish was fried before immersed in the spicy sauce. Well, it tasted great anyway and it was no doubt quite spicy. I was glad that we had asked for reduced spiciness. By looking at the other tables, the fish seems to be a popular dish in this restaurant.
Next came the seafood tofu. The tofu was silky soft and the sauce was nice. The only comment is that there weren't much seafood. In fact, there were only prawns, fish balls and crab sticks. I don't consider fish balls and crab sticks as seafood though. It could be better if there were actual fresh seafood such as squids and probably fish fillets other than just prawns.
Overall, the dishes were good and the portions were big. I was particularly impressed that brown rice was served instead of white rice. I will certainly return for more when I'm craving for spicy Sichuan food!
hey is that hotpot with the fish inside? It looks so much fun
ReplyDeleteYes, it's fish =)
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