Dimsum lunch at Northbridge Chinese Restaurant

On Saturday, we took my family out for dimsum lunch at Northbridge Restaurant on Roe Street. We've been here before, I think for Mother's Day this year (we wanted Hoi's Kitchen but unfortunately they've decided to shut down at the end of their lease). Like other restaurants, this one doesn't take advanced bookings for dimsum - it's a first come first served basis. It gets quite busy during lunch time, so it's best to come early around 11am to beat the crowd. The food itself was quite good, but I thought it was on the pricey side (dimsum everywhere else will be pricey once you've tried Hoi's Kitchen).

My favourite dimsum dish? Chicken's feet. So fatty and unhealthy, but you can't get it anywhere else but at dimsum affairs. My mum used to cook chicken's feet when I was a kid in Malaysia but I think chicken's feet are somewhat difficult to obtain at the shops here.



My second favourite dish? Those tantarts (a.k.a egg tarts - quite similar to custard tarts but more eggy).. So unhealthy but it's yummy :) These ones are not the best I've had, but then again it would be pretty difficult finding a place in Perth that does tantarts as yummilicious as the ones you can get in Hong Kong.



Hargao, steamed prawn dumplings, are pretty good as well.



At this point I was pretty hungry so I just took a table shot and nothing else of the food. We had the usual standard dimsum dishes like siumai (pork dumplings), harcheong (prawns wrapped in rice flour and doused in soy sauce), yaoyusou (deep fried squid tentacles), deep fried yam cakes, taufufar (soft silken tofu in sugar syrup) and mango pudding. We also tried a few of the restaurant's specialties like the deep fried soft-shelled crabs (which was quite salty) and a few other sweet things. Mmm..



And a few shots of my family seated around the table: