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BARILLA

Saturday, November 19, 2011

[Pictures: David Straight] There isn’t much to look at here. There are plastic-covered tables, cheap crockery and some very badly photoshopped images of dumplings. The lighting is too bright and the place is family run; service is well-meaning but very patchy and once there was a voluble argument in the kitchen. We can’t work out why [...]

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NEW FLAVOUR RESTAURANT

Monday, October 18, 2010

[Pictures: Ginny Braun] New Flavour is a fair way down Dominion Road, plonked just down from KFC and in a glut of very good, very cheap restaurants, where, ironically, a meal costs about the same as it would with the Colonel. This is northern Chinese food in big portions: fresh, at pocket change prices with [...]

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TI XIANG DUMPLING HOUSE

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Service is terse, at times rude. The ambience? Grey tiles, retina-searing fluorescent bulbs and blaring Chinese sitcoms. There’s no licence either. But it matters not when you’re presented with a steaming, heaping plateful of freshly made dumplings ($7.80 for 20). In fact, they’re so freshly made that the women at the counter right next to you prepares [...]

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