[Travel Melbourne} Pacific House Restaurant 太平洋海鲜酒家 @ Richmond

The search for crab noodles ended at Pacific House Restaurant as the one that we visited in our last visit was closed indefinitely.

Thanks to Tracy and Hence who helped to make reservation on the same day and so we made our way there for dinner.

The place was starting to get busy when we arrived at about 630pm. 

round table

menu board

menu

We placed our orders promptly and staff quickly went away and to re-appear when the dish was ready to be served. Everything arrived fairly quickly as more and more diners started to pour in. The atmosphere was bustling and lively!

Roast Meat Platter; Chicken, Pork and Duck

roast chicken

The roast chicken was succulent and tasty with chopped spring onions and scallion oil drizzled on it.

crispy roast pork

The roast pork was a mixture of meaty and fatty of around 50-50 ratio. The skin was crackling. Duck was enjoyable too as the meat was not tough.

roast duck

And for a balanced meal, one should order vegetables. But, stir-fry vegetables in Melbourne is expensive at around $20 and above per plate. Funny thing was, the staff asked us if we would like the stir-fry vegetable with beef. It was immediately turned down as the group felt that we had too much meat already. But hor, just needed to top up additional $2 to get the vege with the beef.... *cries*

stir-fry vege

salt and pepper calamari

The calamari was tender and the seasonings were nice. Made me feel like having an ice cold beer.

Crab Noodles (market price)

The Crab Noodles here, seemed to be slightly more oily and had less 'broth' as compared to the Box Hill version. Taste wise, I liked it. Flavourful and finger licking good.

Our group of 4 pax left the restaurant with full and happy bellies. We spent about AUD189 for all the above which worked out to around AUD47 per pax.

As we were walking back towards our car, we noticed another shop nearby called "Singa Pura King of Hawkers". Interesting!

Pacific House Restaurant

Address: 8/240 Victoria St, Richmond VIC 3121, Australia

Contact: +61394278225

Business Hours:

Daily: 10:30 am–10 pm

[Melbourne 2022] Hills BBQ Noodle Shop @ Box Hill

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. 

shopfront

menu

The place feels like an old school Cantonese food shop. We were served hot Chinese tea upon seated.

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.

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!

Ginger Spring Onion Crab Noodles @AUD86 (Market price for crab, AUD8 per serve of noodles)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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