The girl and I were starving and couldn’t be bothered cooking, which can only lead to one conclusion - eat out! Loong Fong restaurant was the destination, a small-ish chinese place near by.

We had:

• Dim sims - crap. Meat was harder than acceptable and still had that strong pork smell/taste. Shame on you for serving us such rubbish!
• Chicken satays with peanut sauce - The sauce didn’t taste like peanut at all, not sure what the flavour was but it sure tasted great. Chicken was nice and hot with crispy outer.
• Pumpkin soup - Different to pumpkin soups I’ve had in the past, but nice nonetheless. I’m a big fan of pumpkin.
• Hot and sour soup - The girl had this one, it looked tempting with about a billion different ingredients crammed in there. It was alright I guess, the ’sour’ part didn’t really do it for me.
• Chinese mushrooms and vegetable stir fry - As to be expected. If you screw this up then you don’t belong in the kitchen.
• Crispy skin chicken - My favourite, very nice tender chicken and crispy to the max skin. Yum.

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One of Darwin’s most famous and awarded restaurants - Hanuman. It specialises in Thai Nonya and Indian cuisine with prodigous use of spices and lovely sauces. There happens to be one in Alice Springs but I haven’t been to that city since I was a wee little toddler. I’m sure it is just as good.

I stuffed myself full on Sunday to the point where I could see beads of sauce squeezing their way out of my belly button. The food was excellent and there are plenty of wait staff catering to your needs. Didn’t take that long to get our meals given the amount of people there, I’ve had to wait longer to get pizza…

We began our meal with some butter naan bread. Nice and hot with a fabulous aroma.

A starter plate of kashmiri chicken tikka (i.e. tandoori chicken) which was quite filling in itself. Lovely spices and tender pieces of chicken.

The mains were, from left to right, red lentil dahl (I think, didn’t pay too much attention to it…), butter chicken and a “mean moolie” of barramundi fillets. I have no idea what mean moolie is supposed to mean but it was my favourite dish of the night. The butter chicken was very spicy and forced me to break into a light sweat…damn you. And the vegetarian dish was ok but didn’t really cater to my carnivorous ways, I’m sure the vegetarians would love it though.

Hanuman (Darwin) is located at:

Holiday Inn Esplanade
93 Mitchell Street
Darwin, Northern Territory
Phone: (08) 8941 3500

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My favourite pizza in all of Darwin comes from the aptly named Pizza King in Hibiscus Shopping Centre.

Here we have a large Italian which fed my sister and I for dinner then breakfast and lunch the next day. Good thing we didn’t get the 18″ extra large pizza then.

They are very generous with their toppings and the pizza’s are hand prepared to fresh perfection. Be prepared to wait a while during busy times though, once I had to wait for just over an hour for my bloody pizza, thankfully this specimen you see here only took half an hour.

One time some nitwit old geezer lost my order and then screwed up the replacement (thank the heavens he no longer works there). Other than that, this pizza is the real deal baby. I’ll have a gourmet pizza over a mass produced 10 minute Domino’s piece of crap anyday.

Pizza King can be found at:
Hibiscus Shopping Town
Leanyer, Northern Territory
Phone: (08) 8927 3088

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