We coronary heart Chengdu noodles and snacks at Li’s Chengdu Kitchen in Burwood.
Fitouts in hole-in-the-wall restos are getting fancier and schmancier. So long as the meals is sweet we do not care the place we’re. There is a good steadiness right here of unpolluted picket traces, panda and bamboo ink type photographs and uncovered brick, a method . Easy picket tables with condiments and water useful that feels fairly welcoming.
Sichuan Spicy Noodle with Pork Gut – $15.50. Now we have been actually digging on intestines currently, the combination of the ‘what’s that funky scent’ with the OTT chilli sauce works fabulously. The broth has that oily slick that holds the warmth whilst you eat the noodles and polish off the remainder of the soup later, though you promised your self you would not eat all of it.
Sizzling and Bitter Potato Noodle with pork mince – $13.80. As just a little distinction to the wheat noodles, the potato noodles and clear and chumpy. They’re properly reduce quick and manageable so you do not have to try to slurp them whereas concurrently streaming purple soup throughout your self. The raft of pork mince is an intense meaty flavour, just a little goes a great distance in a spoonful, and the crisp soybean give a textural crunch.
Spicy deep fried potato chips – $5.80. We simply needed to get the chips. This model had been delicate and never so crinkled and really effectively coated in a chilli crisp sauce. A Chengdu road snack we liked after we went there (appears like 100 years in the past) the place the potatoes had been nonetheless a bit crisp, in all probability fried within the pan slightly than deep fried.
Steamed pork meat ball with sticky rice – $8.80. A smaller model of lions mane meatballs, these tasty little golf ball sized meaty snacks had been delicate to the chunk. A little bit of chilli sauce for dippage would have been an ideal addition however we ate them too rapidly to consider doing that.
Fungus in selfmade sauce – $5.80. Crisp wooden ear fungus, virtually squeaky when bitten by way of, blended with slices of uncooked onion. The onion softened just a little within the vinegar primarily based sauce and this acted virtually like a dressing.
Steamed seasonal greens with soy sauce – $6.80. Gotta get your veg in, we find it irresistible. A easy steamed bunch of greens for healths sake.
Kung Pao rooster with rice – $14.80. Kung Pao rooster is a kind of dishes that may be a little totally different in each resto we strive it. We fairly like this one, it is not drowning in sugary sauce, like some others we have had, and the chooken is stir fried slightly than deep fried.
Li’s Chengdu Kitchen menu.
Li’s Chengdu Kitchen menu
Li’s Chengdu Kitchen is at 45 Burwood Highway, Burwood.
