Food Republik is a Malaysian/Singaporian hawker style market in Box Hill. It is here that Sally and I both visited. We had both got off the train and were starving. There was such a ridiculously long queue and we had to queue for about ten minutes. We got there at about 12:15pmish .
Whilst waiting we got to watch them make dumplings and this made me drool. I really wanted them after all.
There is limited seating at that place.
But when we did get in the door we were given a menu and we had to share a table with randoms which we don't always like.
The service was abmissal at least. The wait staff were all intent on talking to each other rather than serving customers. We had to choose what we want and write it down on a ticket. We had incorrectly chosen a few items which were not available at the time and we got reprimanded by the waitress.
When our pork dumplings didn't come for a while we had to flag down a waitress a few times.
I loved the setup of this though. Cute and funky.
They do takeaway.
We ordered four dishes to share:
1) Xiao long bao -$5.80 for four. It was so juicy. It was sally's favourite dish.
2) Jelly fish- $5.90. This was so bland and it had no chilli in it which we found strange. No salt in it as well. Not going to order this again.
3)Stir fried udon- $9.50- This was my favourite and it was the star of the meal. The beef was really tender and the noodles were flavoursome.
4) Pork bun- $5.20. It came really late why? It came 10 minutes after all the other dishes arrived and we were really full. It was so slippery when it is meant to be pan fried. It was a little bit bland and there was not enough meat in this. I expected more.
In the end we didn't finish this dish.
With the food being sub par at most I really don't know why there was such a big queue to get in the door. Maybe next time (and thats if I do come back) I might just try the rice meals and the bentos as they looked really attractive. Maybe they were just having a bad day after all?
Whilst waiting we got to watch them make dumplings and this made me drool. I really wanted them after all.
There is limited seating at that place.
But when we did get in the door we were given a menu and we had to share a table with randoms which we don't always like.
The service was abmissal at least. The wait staff were all intent on talking to each other rather than serving customers. We had to choose what we want and write it down on a ticket. We had incorrectly chosen a few items which were not available at the time and we got reprimanded by the waitress.
When our pork dumplings didn't come for a while we had to flag down a waitress a few times.
I loved the setup of this though. Cute and funky.
They do takeaway.
The lighting here is really bad and our camera doesn't capture lighting well. But yes this is supposed to read "Food Republik".
We ordered four dishes to share:
1) Xiao long bao -$5.80 for four. It was so juicy. It was sally's favourite dish.
2) Jelly fish- $5.90. This was so bland and it had no chilli in it which we found strange. No salt in it as well. Not going to order this again.
3)Stir fried udon- $9.50- This was my favourite and it was the star of the meal. The beef was really tender and the noodles were flavoursome.
4) Pork bun- $5.20. It came really late why? It came 10 minutes after all the other dishes arrived and we were really full. It was so slippery when it is meant to be pan fried. It was a little bit bland and there was not enough meat in this. I expected more.
In the end we didn't finish this dish.
With the food being sub par at most I really don't know why there was such a big queue to get in the door. Maybe next time (and thats if I do come back) I might just try the rice meals and the bentos as they looked really attractive. Maybe they were just having a bad day after all?
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