All you can eat and a beef rib…

I have been out and about this weekend just gone.

Saturday I went to the Bearded Dragon, at the bottom of Mount Tambourine.

It took a fair while to get there, but definitely worth the trip. We were there for a friends birthday party, and as soon as we sat down, I got back up so I could order food. I don’t think anyone would be surprised that I don’t tend to wait before I order food.

I ordered the ribs that were their special, and a rocky road sundae with popping candy.

I am going to do this in the reverse of what I normally do, normally I would tell you about the main first, but this time you get the dessert first.

I am not going to say it was bad, because it wasn’t. I am going to say, I may have expected way more popping candy than I got. I got a small bowl, which I had assumed given it was half the price of most of the desserts, of rocky road ice cream, with a chocolate biscuit, some popping candy and some other stuff. I don’t recall much else about it. Aside from it was pleasant of course, even with the meagre amount of popping candy. Look, I know I love popping candy a lot, so it may have been a normal amount for your average person.

Before I had the dessert though, I had beef ribs. These were done in some sort of very tasty sauce, and on a bed of slaw and chips. The ribs were very tasty, and basically fell off the bone when I held it upright. Each mouthful was a delight. Each time I placed some of the rib meat on my fork my mouth watered. It was great. The chips were pretty good too, I don’t think they were anything unique to the Bearded Dragon, just done well. Then there was the slaw. I like my slaw to have a little tang to it. Maybe it’s all of the chilli I eat now, maybe people are just a bit vinegar shy, who am I to judge.

Slaw is getting weak in the tang department, I am the guy eating it who has judged it. So there.

I wouldn’t normally complain about it, but this is not the first slaw like this I have had. I like my slaw tangy ok.

Ahem.

Sunday.

On Sunday i went to an all you can eat Yum Cha at Inala plaza.

This was actually pretty good.

For nineteen dollars, you basically just kept going up and getting yourself baskets until you were done. Not everything was great, but I am not going to complain about it for that price.

The following are observations though, both good and bad.

The price means this is great value.

The chickens feet were a little skinnier than the ones I normally have in Sunnybank, tasty though. I also still got just as messy as normal eating them.

The dumplings were a bit firm, they still tasted okay though. We had about three different ones, maybe four. They were all firm in the middle, not bad just firm. I peeled one and ate the inside first and then the skin.

The honeycomb beef was really good. Maybe we got there as it came out, I am not sure. It tasted really good though, and was some of the best cooked honeycomb beef I have ever had. If you don’t know what this is, maybe you shouldn’t google it.

The pig’s intestines weren’t that great. They were alright, as in not horrible, but lacking in a little flavour. i am not sure how long they had been out for though. I’d eat them again, but I am in no rush to.

The beef tendon was a bit firmer than most people probably like. I think we had got it too late though, and it had been on the warmer for a while.

Finally, the mango pancakes. These were good, if someone dialled down in mango flavouring. They were filled with cream, oh so much cream. As I bit in, I thought it was going to go everywhere. I am glad it didn’t though.

There was probably more food, but I have forgotten what it was.

This yum cha place is definitely somewhere I want to go back to, and now I want chocolate. Eat well all.