After our adventurous Great Ocean Road trip, we returned to Melbourne City. As it was late, we looked for a late dinner or early supper place and the group decided on Hills BBQ Noodle Shop as its closing time would be around 2am.
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| shopfront |
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| menu |
The place feels like an old school Cantonese food shop. We were served hot Chinese tea upon seated.
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| cheers |
Once our orders were taken, the complimentary soup of the day was served to the table. It was dried vegetables soup 菜乾湯. Simple but packed with familiar comforting flavours.
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| dried vegetable soup |
I think probably more old school styled shop does this but nowadays, it had become rare for restaurants to serve complimentary soup.
Who eats crab noodles for supper? Apparently, us. Hahaha!
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| Ginger Spring Onion Crab Noodles @AUD86 (Market price for crab, AUD8 per serve of noodles) |
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| side view |
This place serves live seafood and we did enquire on the market price for the crab which is in accordance to the weight of the crab. The one that we got weighs slightly over a kg but with a claw missing. The wanton noodles are separate orders at AUD8 per piece, so we got 2 noodles for the dish.
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| bon appetite~ |
The mud crab was meaty but in overall, the dish tasted milder than I expected. Good but didn't wow. Noodles with the ginger and spring onion gravy topped with spicy chili oil, was pretty yummy.
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| Deep Fried Big Intestines 炸大肠 @AUD23.80 |
Our appetiser plate of deep fried intestines is the same price as half a duck. Wow, that's like the priciest intestines I had ever eaten. It was undoubtably good and without any funky smell. Crispy and of a nice glaze on its outside, and tender soft on its insides. Hence, the effort in preparing this dish must have been quite extensive.
The must order, I think should be the roasted duck. We got ourselves half a duck and it was a very good choice. Tender and meaty plus fragrant with the duck oil from the skin.
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| Roasted Duck (Half) 烧鸭(半)@AUD23.80 |
When in Melbourne, we eat Barramundi. So, we got a Hong-Kong styled steamed fish as well.
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| Steamed Barramundi (soy sauce, spring onion) @AUD55 |
The fish was well steamed, with firm flesh and the simple soy sauce brought out the natural sweetness of the fish. It was a fairly large fish as well and probably weighs around 900gms to a kg.
Hmmm, from a simple supper... I think we overdid ourselves and turned this meal into a late night feast!
We saw that most individuals or couples in the shop, ordered things single pax items like those noodles or rice dishes. Out of curiosity, we ordered one rice dish and one noodle dish to try.
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| Stir fried Black Bean Beef Rice @AUD15 |
I must say, the Asian restaurants that we visited thus far, does very well with beef. Tender, juicy and flavourful. However, the bean sauce for the rice dish was a tad too strong for me hence, it was pretty salty.
My recommendation would be, go for the Beef Brisket Noodles Soup. I was actually wowed by this dish! First of all, the meat selection in the bowl was on-point. A combination of chunky fatty and lean parts, and even so, the lean parts were tender and not too chewy. The fatty parts just dissolved straight into the mouth. Soup tasted good with the daikon pieces absorbing the flavours and seemed like it had been boiled adequately.
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| Beef Brisket Noodles Soup 牛腩面汤 @AUD15 |
The four of us, finished all of the above. Spent about AUD59 per pax. Payment at the counter, after our meal. Thank you Tracy, Hence and Ivan for sharing the calories!
Hills BBQ Noodle Shop
Address: 586 Station St, Box Hill VIC 3128, Australia
Contact: +61 3 9899 3382
Business Hours:
Mon-Tue: 12pm–11pm
Wed-Sun: 12pm–2am
