Little Chef @ Wills Street, Melbourne review

It has been a while since I last went to Wills Street and so I was surprised to see a new Chinese restaurant named Little Chef. Looks like the former Japanese cafe - Hashi has closed down and Little Chef has taken over the place.

Little Chef is a small restaurant offering Chinese food like dumplings as well as Chinese dishes and noodles. It has a better seating arrangement and it actually looks quite cozy and more pleasant than before. I was just hoping that they serve decent food so I could add them to my list of take away restaurants during busy workdays.

Pan fried pork dumplings

Pork dumplings in chilli oil soup

On my first visit, I took away pan fried pork dumplings, pork dumplings in chilli oil soup as well as mapo tofu with rice. Both the dumplings tasted almost the same. The skin was thick and they were a bit salty and oily to me. The dumplings were just not to my liking.

Mapo tofu rice

The mapo tofu tasted a bit weird too, probably due to the chilli oil that they used. Besides that, there were hardly any minced meat in the dish but only tofu. I thought there should be minced pork in mapo tofu dish?

Anyway, I thought of giving it a second chance as its location is really convenient for me to grab a quick meal. This time, I ordered sweet and sour pork with rice and Kung pao chicken with rice.

Sweet and sour pork rice

The sweet and sour pork wasn't great and it literally only consisted of pork, onions and probably a slice of red capsicum and carrot.

Kung pao chicken rice

The Kung pao chicken was worse. It didn't taste like the Kung pao chicken dish I used to have at all. Perhaps it's a different style?

Oh well, looks like Little Chef didn't make it to my list of take away restaurants.