Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Shark Fin House

Fancy some good Yum Cha?  Then head over to Shark Fin House.  This is one of four restaurants in the Shark Fin Group's chain of restaurants which was established in 1980.  Shark Fin House is located in the heart of Chinatown in Melbourne on Little Bourke Street.

I was there in June for dinner and had an enjoyable dinner.  I decided to go there again last month for a late lunch.  Would you believe that even at 1.30, there was a queue for tables?  The waiting staff was busy heralding groups of customers in and asking those without reservations to take a number.  After being told we had to wait about 20 mins, we were told our table was ready and was taken up to the 2nd floor.  There were quite a few big tables around us.  The trolleys of yum cha dishes looked delicious and we couldn't resist even though we had decided to have lobster.  We ordered our lobster but was too hungry and could not resist some dumplings while waiting.  The dumplings were delicious.

While waiting we noticed that the big tables around us were being filled up and this was already 2.30pm!  I think the Melbournians tend to eat late.

Our lobster dish finally arrived - cooked to perfection.  The Yee Min which accompanied it in XO sauce was al-dente.  There was sufficient sauce, and the 1kg lobster was finger lickin-good!

The service at this restaurant was great too... they were attentive and cleared our plates from all the shells.  Yum!

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