A popular lunch time locale for my woman and I and many others. They are a semi Aussie grub/Chinese café who just happen to make both a deliciously fatty breakfast and mega mean noodles with plenty of meat and vegies. Their ’specialty’ is Hainan Chicken, served on Friday’s and Saturday’s, however I have to unashamedly admit that mine tasted better by couple of chicken feet.

They also have a variety of gourmet coffee, sauces, chutnies and all sorts of stuff for sale that I would never dream of using (or heard of).

Check them out at the Jape Homemaker Village.

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This Chinese restaurant recently opened up in Smith St Mall in Darwin City. I can hear the masses crying out already -”What?!? Another f*cking Chinese restaurant?!?” But fear not my homosapian colleagues for this one is rather different from the norm. You won’t find any freaking mongolian beef on the menu for example.

In fact, most of the dishes on the smallish menu (dinner menu that is, the lunch menu one is different) are quite differen’t to the usual Chinese restaurant fare that you get around here and all sound very tasty. I’m going to have to work my way down the list in future visits although there only seems to be one or two dishes without any meat in it - vegetarians better not visit.

The prices are damn cheap with mains ranging around the $12 mark if I can recall correctly. My babe and I had 2 starters, drinks, rice and 2 mains for about $40. You can’t spend 5 minutes in a nightclub without spending that kind of money these days.

Speaking of which, you could be forgiven you had walked into a club upon entering. High ceilings, shiny floor, tables and chairs, dark glossy paint job, lots of polished metal and a glass walled office on the second floor. Very swanky and impressive.

It wasn’t very busy when we visited, so the two young waiters were just twitching with every movement the diners made, eager to serve and please. I like good service.

Tasty House sure lives up to its name and I will be visiting again soon. I even spotted the owner of the mighty Hanuman restaurant eating there.

Tasty House is open for lunch and dinner and can be found on Smith Street Mall, Darwin City.

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My girlfriend and ventured down to the Gold Coast for easter weekend. We had the pleasure of dining at a small Japanese restaurant one night and were thoroughly impressed by the excellent service and food. We found it weird that they were playing hip hop/R&B music though!

We munched on some kimchi to begin with and they apologised for taking their time with the rice and the sushi. I loved the sushi with its melt in your mouth flavour and texture. They apologised again when they brought out the pork dish which I can’t remember the name of. It was a while before the fried chicken teriyaki came out but at least the waiters told us how long it was going to take and apologised again…When the service is good you don’t really mind waiting a bit longer I guess. The night before we ate at a Malaysian/Chinese seafood restaurant where the service was rather shit by anyone’s standards and came to the conclusion that they were all a bunch of assholes minus one girl who was running around like a mad rabbit serving and seating customers.

Lightly boiled tuna, avocado and mayonnaise sushi. I ate one before I remembed to take a photo….

Immaculately cut strips of pork in some kind of sauce. I think it was a chilli sauce or something, whatever it was it was quite nice.

And fried chicken teriyaki, again I only remembered to take a photo after a few pieces had been eaten. One day my teriyaki will be this good! I’ve sourced some decent sake so I will give it another go this week.

I don’t recall the details of the place we ate at unfortunately, but I would eat there again without a doubt.

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