After attending a graduation last week, I was hungry beyond hungry when it finished. So was my sis and Kevin! Undecided on where to go at first, we finally decided to settle for some Chinese along Roe St. Our choice for the night was Tasty House as we were craving some crabs and my sister said they were having a promotion. I have eaten here plenty of times. To date, perhaps 30 times? I come here often for supper and occasionally dinner. Honestly, it serves SOME genuinely good food although some dishes had turned out very horribly before (see my order list below). Luckily enough, it did not fail when my stomach was at its most needy state.
To start the stomach a little, sis ordered the beef and coriander soup!:
The soup was delicious although for a few moments I contemplated on whether I was drinking soup or sauce. Crunchy coriander bits and beef mince made this a welcoming appetizer for a hungry tummy!
Mud Crabs cooked with XO Sauce and Vermicelli was yummy! The noodles were every bit tasty! I love this style of cooking the crabs! Back home in Malaysia, this is easily comparable to the Kam Heong crabs cooked with Vermicelli. Two very similar dishes originating for two different countries! YUMS! Funnily enough, we ordered some rice to go with the dish! And that was because:
The crabs had a good amount of eggs in it! Lucky or not hehe I’m all smiles to a loaded crab! And at the same time the crab was pretty big! I think it was like 1.2kg each? I’d have to admit though, that the seafood in Australia has never been all that great although the scallops and mussels here are quite a treat! Besides this dish, we also ordered a spinach dish which was cooked with fermented bean sauce (fu-yi) and it which turned out beautifully! All in all, what we had for dinner was every bit satisfying! The dinner ended with a sweet note thanks to the complementary red bean pancake which was yummylicious despite being sold in frozen packets!
So, what are some of the best things to be ordered here? Well if you are coming for late nights supper, I would recommend to you the baked cheese rice with ham and chicken in cream sauce. On the other hand, darling is a big fan of their salted egg and pork porridge which is supper good too! But if you are here on a dinner occasion, there are plenty of dishes which you could try. My recent favourite is the OX Tail in Red Wine sauce which is a hearty Asian styled stew which goes well with rice; especially during cold days. Other beef dishes which turned out well was the black pepper steak and the scotch fillet with XO Sauce and snow peas. Do note that the Scotch fillet with XO sauce and snow peas is a wildcard which can be superb at times and awful! As for seafood, I need not go further down the menu when I see the salted egg prawns! A definite prawn dish if I were to call prawns! Do note that the prawns here are not overly fresh as with other restaurant around town. Be it prawns in a Chinese restaurant or Western, they tend to have that artificial crunch in them which is non-existent when I pick my prawns from the markets.
Sorry if this post was too long for its own good! I realised that Tasty House has been treated quite unfairly and thought that it deserved better 
On a side note, this month is going to be a busy one! With mid semester tests and the little darling’s birthday coming up, there is surely to be a few days extra that I will be eating out! So keep a look out ;)!
WenY
