Bokchoy tang

RNIS was invited by Healthystudent site and Herbalife to review the place

Bokchoy Tang has been around for a while now. Here it has been reviewed for outstanding Asian food by various blogs like Jeroxie etc. So when I got the Age Good Food Card I thought that I would give this a shot. I had seen the place before. It is clean and up two flights of stairs.

Spring rolls close up

Spring onion pancake close up

Inside of it is warm and like a more elegant Chinese restaurant. There was only one other group of four and they were Caucasian enjoying a banquet with champagne and wine. I was just happy trying dumplings and by the time I left they had a whole lot more food which I don't think that they would have been able to finish.

I had just finished fit club and smoothies before coming, so I did not mind waiting and watching them cook my food in an open kitchen. Here they also do Menulog orders and they have won best Regional award last year just for their outstanding food. If I was to order from Menulog I'd order from them. I loved the cute bags that the takeaway comes in.

Prawn and chive parcels

Here I had plump vegetarian spring rolls, the flatbread, prawn and chive parcels (which were amazing by the way), the pan fried veg dumplings and the spring onion pancake for $30 altogether ( I did get an Entertainment book discount and I got the card courtesy of Herbalife and Healthy Students site). Everything looked small but was moreish and at 8pm and after I don't eat a lot.

Everything is made freshly here. I enjoyed eating it all. The flat bread was a little bit on the sweetish side, but I loved the plum sauce that came with the spring rolls. I also loved the freshly fried pancake and the dumplings. Yum

They use a lot of fresh ingredients and I can taste them in everything.

Rating: 18/20- enjoyed it but a little bit pricey if I paid for it all. Do come by for fine dining with elegance,

Melbourne releases a new monopoly board

There is a new monopoly board and its all about Melbourne. Here it feautres Melbourne's best coffee places, restaurants and attractions. All of which make up Melbourne. Today it was launched and it retails for $50 in toy stores and MYER all over Melbourne.

For the chances and community chest the acitivites would be things like betting on horses at the Melbourne Cup or dining out, things that would be uniquely Melbourne

For Monopoly lovers this is a good gift for anytime

 

What goes where?

BROWN
London: Old Kent Road and Whitechapel
Melbourne: Hosier Lane and Hardware Lane
LIGHT BLUE
London: Pentonville Road, Euston Road and The Angel, Islington
Melbourne: Great Ocean Road, Dandenong Ranges and Eureka Skydeck
PINK
London: Pall Mall, Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue
Melbourne:  Emporium Melbourne, Queen Vic Market and Chapel Street
​ORANGE
London: Vine Street, Marlborough Street, Bow Street
Melbourne: Etihad Stadium, Rod Laver Arena and Flemington Racecourse
RED
London: Trafalgar Square, The Strand and Fleet Street
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, Arts Centre Melbourne and Royal Exhibition Building
YELLOW
London: Picadilly, Leicester Square and Coventry Street
Melbourne: Brighton Bathing Boxes, Bells Beach and St Kilda
GREEN
London: Regent Street, Oxford Street and Bond Street
Melbourne: The University of Melbourne, Shrine of Remembrance, and Melbourne Zoo
DARK BLUE
London: Mayfair and Park Lane
Melbourne: MCG and Federation Square
UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Melbourne Water; Flinders Street Station, Southern Cross Station, Parliament Station and Melbourne Central Station

Do buy it now

Platform 270 at Hilton

Platfrom 270 is Hilton's newest bar and restaurant. The Hilton has been around for quite a while now. It was quiet for a Wednesday night. They too have been quiet on their social media page with not a lot shares and bloggers alike.

Platform 270 is right next door to my gym and I have eyed it a number of times, but never found the courage to go in. They have $20 meal deals which include a drink and a main depending on the day. This is a huge place which you can easily mistake for a bar because it is so dark.

The risotto that day was a prawn and pea risotto. It was not too cream which is great but there was not a lot of prawns in there. I would have liked there to be more. But the rice was fluffy and the sauce was good.

Seeing as I am trying to cut back on alcohol I had lemonade. Normally it comes with wine but I went with lemonade. I am on a bit of a health kick so no desserts or starters for me.

Rating: 11/20- an ok meal but good deal though

The Lincoln

The Lincoln is a pub which has been open for a few years. I have not been a regular at RMIT Carlton until now when RMIT is renovating the city campus for a better place. Hence I have never heard of it until a friend brought me there for their good food.

I read online that it was a gastropub with a bit of history to it and that is true. My friend saw the menu and didn't bother looking at the $20 specials outside. Therefore he thought that the paper menu was a bit weird.  I had a quick glance on them on my way in.

I didn't want anything on the paper menu except for their "Thrice cooked chips" ($9) which reminded me of country fare. And country fare it was indeed with great Australian potatoes. It was baked not fried.

The service was slow but friendly. We did have to wait a while for the food and it was justified.

The aioli was just perfect. It wasn't too salty and it didn't have too much mayonnaise in there.

The other dish which was my friend's sausages and mash ($20), looked small but was hearty. However the sausage was hard to cut. It was good but I just thought that they should have cooked the sausages a little bit better and brought out the mustard at the start of the meal and not at the end. The mustard was really sweet and a little bit spicy. But the potato mash was just right . It was creamy and not salty or dry to which some of them can be.

Rating:13/20- come here for the good times and country food. Oh and they also do coffee now.

Food Connection

Food Connection is in Melbourne Central where the old Secret Kitchen used to be. The food was not as good as it used to be and the lady manager did not smile one bit and ask if everything is going ok.

The food and tea was quick though. I ordered one of their most popular items- Penang Char Kuey Teow for $14.90. For $14.90 the plate was small and I can get much better at Roti Road. There was no wok hei to this and the seafood was frozen. Moreover the calamari looked like it was too chewy. There wasn't much noodles to it.

They also sell cakes but given that I ate so much sweets yesterday, I figured that I will have none.

The green tea was alright. Hey it was T2 tea.

Rating: 10/20- I have had better at Roti Road.