linda 14 August 2008 Chinese 2 Comments  Print This Post  Email This Post

Sunday is the most cherished day of the week for H and I. It’s the only one day where we are both free from the shackles of work commitments. Our special day usually (more like rarely) starts off with a jog in the early hour of 10am for about an hour, then off to Cabramatta for brunch we go.

There are quite a few restaurants offering Yum Cha in Cabramatta, most of them requires queuing for at least half an hour. However one day we did spot a gem amongst the rubbles. A small restaurant with photos of the many dishes plastered in its front window caught our attention. Not wanting to waste our time waiting for a restaurant we decided to try Fortune 8, and we’ve never looked back.

Har Gao (Prawn Dumplings)

My all time favourite yum cha dish. As Fortune 8 is so small, you can be assured that you’re always being served fresh food. Unlike some restaurants, Fortune 8’s har gao “skin” is thin enough to retain all the sweet juices from the prawns, yet translucent so that you can also see what you’re eating.

Deep Fried Seafood spring rolls (Beancurd sheet wrapping)

The spring roll was a little hit and miss, despite the seafood being fresh, the sauce accompanying the dish did not do it justice. The sauce tasted like diluted tomato paste.

Pan fried radish cake

Whenever we order this dish, H and I always fight for the piece with most fried egg attached to it. the oilyness of the dish is neutralised by the tartness of the accompanying vinegar.

Pan fried eggplant with fish cake

Absolutely delicious! The fish paste was mixed with slices of spring onion and placed on top of a piece of eggplant. What made the dish was the way that the eggplant was fried to a perfect consistency, gooey, although still retaining the sweet natural flavour of the eggplant.

Fong Jau (Braised chicken feet)

Another dissapointment for the afternoon. The Fong Jao here was unfortunately too bland, requiring constant dipping into soy sauce.

Once we were good to go, the waitress brought us our bill. To our surprise, the whole meal cost us $20.00. What a bargain!

Aside from it’s fast service, the waitresses at Fortune 8 speaks english fluently and are always very attentive. As it’s such a small restaurant, they do not have the space to push around the trolleys, so you have two options in ordering the dishes. First option is to wait for the waitresses to walk around with a plate filled with bamboo baskets, offering sieu mai, har gao etc; or order from their photographic/english captioned menu. Irrespective of the option, you would be assured of fresh food everytime.

Fortune 8 Chinese Restaurant
Shop 1, 44 Park Rd,
Cabramatta, NSW, 2166
Ph: (02) 9727 8988