A delicious Chinese roast is always up there amongst my list of comfort food. Imagining crispy roast pork crackling, juicy roast duck, and garlicky Kailan with piping hot rice simply gets me drooling! Pacific Roast House on Lonsdale St. serves a delicious Soy Chicken feed in town, and they are not shy the flaunt it. With a full bird close to $40, it was easily the most expensive Soy Chicken in Australia. A full bird at Good Fortune is only $24!
At Pacific Roast House however, the common protein is transformed in to a perfectly caramelised bird with a tender flesh. Its skin is silky smooth and I cannot help but feel terribly impressed by the Soy Chicken served at Pacific BBQ. The colour itself just looks extremely tantalising. To add to the glory, its accompaniment the ginger is generously formed and sautéed to perfection. Salty, mildly pungent and extremely fragrant, it gingery flavours could easily make anyone eat a bucket of rice!
The duck here though is only mildly impressive when compared to the likes of my home favourites Good Fortune Roast house and HK BBQ house in Perth. Nevertheless, it was not a bad eat. Just nowhere near as outstanding at the Soy Chicken they serve.
Pacific Roast house has always been a good eat since my first time there 7 years ago, but never a good host. Unfortunately, if you frequent places that serves awesome roast, sometimes part of the dining experience is the attitude; bad ones where hospitality feels a bit more like hostility. The waiter comes up with little courtesy and offers drink the typical way you get asked in HK. It does not go “Would you like a drink?”, instead it will be “Drink!?”. It just cracks me up knowing how many people suffer a culture shock coming to Pacific Roast House. But a veteran eater knows that this is no more than a norm. In saying that, it does not necessarily mean I agree! Just that I expect it!
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