My absolute favourite Chinese restaurant
There is a small Chinese restaurant in Canberra (Dickson Dumpling House) about a thirty minute walk from my home that I absolutely love! I eat there at least once a fortnight and always take visitors there as for me it reminds me so much of the food in Beijing especially the dumplings; vegetable for me and pork for my friends who also order the xiao long bao (Shanghai dumplings containing soup).
Every friend I have taken there loves the authentic Chinese dishes and always asks to reserve a table when they return to visit me; I am actually going there this Sunday night with a friend who is visiting from Cambodia. We usually also order the chive pancakes to start with – a little bit oily but delicious with Chinese vinegar.
The dried green bean dish with chilli is fabulous as, I am told, is the kung pao chicken which is regularly ordered by my friends.
The decor is basic but the service is great. I have made friends with one of the waiters [Peter] and I practice my Chinese with him and develops his English with me – he is pretty good anyway as he goes to uni here in Canberra. He recently returned to his home town in Sichaun Province and brought me back some lovely tea. A very sweet young man who has now invited me and my friend Jon to his home for eggplant as he says he makes it really well and knows I order it always..looking forward to that!
So on the subject of my most favourite dish – yu xiang qiezi (fish fragrant eggplant). Ordered every single visit without fail but without the pork on the top and without the fish sauce. Even my brother has changed his mind about eggplant now because of this dish.
And there are desserts but it’s rare that we order them…but last time my Goddaughter and her partner came to visit we did…very big dishes and oh so sweet!!
So there you have it…my most favourite Chinese restaurant – no MSG either!!
Sophie said:
Aaaaah the good old classics! always the best! And yuxiang qiezi, such a delish indeed. I got to say, all the other dishes look stunning and delicious, and I’m glad to read one more time that you get a chance to practice your Chinese. So sweet of that man to bring you back tea from Sichuan!! No wonder you take all your friends there!!
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Little Miss Traveller said:
I adore Chinese dumplings !
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Gary Lum said:
I’m coming up to ten years living in Canberra and have never been there. I should go, I’m usually reticent about authentic Chinese places because people will try to speak with me in Chinese and I’ll have no idea, then the embarrassment sets in.
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Marta said:
Everything looks good! In Spain it is pretty difficult to find a restaurant serving authentic Chinese food!
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JoHanna Massey said:
Oh, these dishes look just fabulous. There is much to be said when you become a ‘regular’ at a restaurant. In your case, a blossoming new friendship, in addition to just excellent sounding/looking dishes. Wonderful post. Thank you.
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CrazyChineseFamily said:
Oh how great, even specialized on dumplings! I never had any good dumplings in Europe, more often than not they were also insanely overpriced (remember ordering in Berlin once 2 baozi for 4 Euros a piece and all I got were two tiny jiaozi :o)
It looks sooo great and now I am sooo hungry, all what I have currently here is the dishes my mother-in-law makes and they are….not so good
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joliesattic said:
Yum!
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Sumith said:
Loved this delicious dumplings. Nice post Sue.
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SueT唐 梦 琇 said:
Thanks Sophie.
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SueT唐 梦 琇 said:
Please do visit there Gary. You will love it and they all speak English so if you start off with English they won’t switch to Chinese.
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Gary Lum said:
Excellent. Thank you very much. 😃😃😃
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SueT唐 梦 琇 said:
Thank you JoHanna. Lovely to hear from you.
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SueT唐 梦 琇 said:
Yes I know what your MiL makes from reading your posts. Not good!!!! Ha ha. Wow overpriced baozi in Europe – dreadful when they are so cheap to make.
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SueT唐 梦 琇 said:
It was. Thank you.
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SueT唐 梦 琇 said:
Thank you!!
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Amy said:
I love all the dishes here. Peter is such a sweet young man. It warms my heart to read the story… The eggplant looks so delicious.To taste authentic Chinese food, we have to fly to S. Calif. 🙂
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CrazyChineseFamily said:
In Helsinki there was one restaurant specialized on dumplings. The sad thing was that it became too popular with the Chinese so there was never enough for all the guests!
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Lignum Draco said:
I’ve been there. Dumpling bars, houses and restaurants seem to be everywhere now. That’s good news to me. 🙂
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sileas said:
Oh my, I may have to order Chinese food for tonight 😉
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SueT唐 梦 琇 said:
Thanks so much Amy. Yes Peter is very sweet.
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SueT唐 梦 琇 said:
I agree. Canberra has such good restaurants now. Thank goodness!!
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SueT唐 梦 琇 said:
Haha. It’s great and I know we both enjoy it.
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