China Grand and Kebab's Night

I'm not sure how many posts I could do today but let's see how we go :)

I haven't seen my girlfriends for a while so we decided to had a catch-up brunch, i.e yum cha. For some reasons we always had yumcha everytime we met up, but at different locations - should really think of something else for next time!

But anyway who am I kidding, I love yumcha - let's just keep the ritual.
This time we picked China Grand's restaurant just above Market City. That restaurant kept on changing name for the past ten years, I wonder why..

Me and my other friend are a big fan of tofu so we always ordered this one!

Tofu and eggplant with stuffed mince pork

Moco and I rarely ordered fried stuff in yumcha, so these dishes are a treat for me =p

Deep friend scallop dumplings with mayo

Deep fried seafood dumplings

Prawn rice rolls with soy sauce

Prawn har gau - my mandatory yum cha dish

Egg tart - my mandatory yum cha dessert!

One of my friends was late so we didn't order as much as we normally do, but it's okay that just meant we had more room for coffee. And especially I had to prepare myself for the kebab night..

Fast forward to the night, we got invited to Moco's friend place. His friend's neighbour was kindly brought over his own kebab machine. Check this out..

Home-made tabouli

I've never known anyone who owns a kebab machine before so it's pretty cool, a private platter in the backyard :)

The Lot!

The oil residue..ouch.

Home-made tiramisu

El Jannah

For some reasons we always got hungry at 3pm these last couple of days. I think mainly because we're on holiday waking up late and having brunch instead of our usual breakfast.

Anyway Moco's friends have been raving a lot about the great charcoal chicken near Granville station for so long and since we're in the neighbourhood we decided to try it. Not many shops were open on that day so when we saw a relatively busy charcoal chicken place at the corner we thought it must be it. However the sign was quite big and the joint looked very commercial. Personally I thought if it's a good charcoal chicken near a train station the shop can't be look that fancy. So I told Moco to call his friend to check. And I was right, that place definitely not it, we overlooked a small chicken shop up the street that was half the size of this commercial restaurant and inside had double the line.

line was getting longer and longer and by 3.15pm it almost reached the front door

Most of the people were actually having a take away (only $5 for half of chicken take away!), as for dine-in the price inflated a bit but I think it's still pretty good value. We got the half chicken combo (with lebanese bread, pickles and the famous garlic sauce) for $10.

half of the chicken combo

The plate looked so pretty with the combination colours of the pickles (I don't eat pickles so Moco's happily eating them all - but still I think the plate looked pretty..)

The chicken was very succulent and already delicious without the garlic sauce, but once you added the garlic sauce you just can't stop using it for your next bite.


Moco and I are positively assured this is the best garlic sauce we've had, and whilst I agreed the chicken was above average, I'm still not convinced that this is the best charcoal chicken we've had. At this point my heart still belongs to the charcoal chicken near the old CBA in Fairfield, can't wait for my next trip there so I can show you the piccies :)