linda 30 October 2008 Chinese 4 Comments  Print This Post  Email This Post

Authentic Chinese without breaking the budget

Howard’s aunty from Hong Kong annually makes a trip to Australia to visit the family. Therefore every year for a period of 2-3 weeks, lucky for me there’s eating out every day of the week. What makes each meal even better is that I don’t have to pay for any of it =D

After exploring just about every chinese restaurants in the Ashfield region, Howard suggested that we try Yummy restaurant in Beverley Hills. The chinese newspaper advertised a special deal on the crabs, provided you dined in on the weekdays.

Yummy restaurant has two branches, one on the Hume Highway in the Yagoona area, and the second in Beverley Hills. Having tried the one in Yagoona previously which resulted in utter dissapointment, I was a little apprehensive about Beverly Hill’s. However, upon arrival to the restaurant, witnessing the restaurant filled to full capacity albeit on a week night, the hustle and bustle from the waiters combined with the buzzing chatting from the patrons assured me that this would be a different experience.

Stir fried Mud crab with ginger and scallion

For me, what makes or breaks this dish is dependant on how fresh the crab is. In this instance, the crab was definitely fresh, with the flesh being sweet and springy. A light sauce coated each piece of crab meat, helping to enhance the flavours of the crab.

Stir fry of three mushrooms with baby bok choy

This is a very simple dish consisting of three types of mushrooms: Oyster, Shitake and Enoki, flash fried with baby bok choy. The flame radiating through from the frying pan licked each piece well, ensuring that each piece was cooked, yet still retain its natural form (rather than all wilted). As the previous dish, the sauce is very basic, thus allows the vegetables to be the star of the show.

Salt and Pepper pork

Pieces of pork ribs dipped in a thick batter and fired to crispy gold. The pieces are thin and quickly stir fried in a chilli, ginger and spring onion mixture and flavoured well with salt and pepper. At first sight, i was quite impressed at how this dish was presented, each piece of pork was separated and coated in the mixture, overall it was not drenched in oil.

Steamed egg tofu with seafood

A favourite of ours. The tofu combined with the egg to form a custard consistency, topped with thick and saucy prawns, scallop and mushroom mixture, was definitely the outstanding dish of the night. The freshness of the seafood together with creamy tofu just melts in your mouth with each spoonful.

Stir fried beans with dried shrimps

To balance out the meat dishes, another vegetable dish was mandatory. The beans were stir fried in crushed dried shrips, flavoured with garlic and plenty of chilli. I found the saltyness or the dried prawn/garlic mix too strong, thus overpowering the sweetness of the bean.

If you’re ever driving around Beverly Hills and at the same time famished, I’d recommend you give Yummy a go. The freshness of their seafood comined with traditional methods and flavours would for the Chinese people, be a reminder of mum’s home cooked meal; while for others, open up your tastebuds to a whole new world of flavours.

Yummy Seafood Chinese Restaurant

503 King Georges Rd
Beverly Hills, NSW 2209
(02) 9580 0788 
Open 7 days