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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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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Indeed it is a sin for noodles to taste this good. I used my hoi sin stir fry sauce with noodles instead of vegetables like I usually do and it turned out great. I made it yesterday and again today as I wanted my partner to experience the yummyness.

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 5-10 minutes
Serves: 4 (or 2 hungry people)

Ingredients

• Hokkien noodles for four
• 3 chicken thigh fillets, sliced thinly
• Vegetables of your choice, I went with sugar snap peas, zucchini and bok choy. Prepare each accordingly.
• 3 shallots, chopped coarsely
• 3 cloves garlic finely diced
• 1 chilli finely diced
• 1/2 large onion sliced thinly
• 1/4 cup cashew nuts
• Peanut oil to cook

Sauce

• 60ml / 2 tablespoons hoi sin sauce
• 30ml / 1 tablespoon sweet chilli sauce
• 30ml / 1 tablespoon oyster sauce

Method

1. Prepare the noodles as per the instructions on the packet.
2. Stir fry chicken in a bit of peanut oil until brown and almost cooked through, remove and set aside.
3. Stir fry onion, garli, chilli and cashews for a minute, then add in peas and stem parts of bok choy. Stir fry for another minute and then add in the softer vegetables then stir fry another minute or until the vetables start to become wilted.
4. Add in the sauce and stir through.
5. Add in the noodles and stir fry, flip or do whatever it is you like to do to the beast. Make sure the wok is on super hot because that’s how all Iron Chefs roll. Mix it up and sexify it.

Yum. Eat it while it’s hot because cold noodles are shit.

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