Dumpings

Chee Chee. Shopping. Eating. 3 of my absolute favourite things in the world. To top it off, it's Saturday and I don't have to work. BONUS! After a good old fashioned sleep-in Scotty, my Integra, and I drove over to pick Chee Chee up. Tired, hungover, and getting over a cold (not necessarily in that order) we had a shopping mission. A few missions actually. All too boring to write here and not appropriate for this blog. Whatever.

So blah blah blah, tired, whinge, tired, sniff, blah blah blah... Time for dinner! Yay! The day was less than a sentence long! Because we were slumming it old skool in the 'burbs, we decided to have a suburban dinner too. There are 4 entries for Box Hill in the CEG. Telepathically, Chee Chee and I (and Llyall for that matter, in a freak-phonecall) had decided upon David & Camy's. This place is dirty, over-crowded and smelling fan-fucking-tastic. You know it's good Chinese food when the place is swarming with cockroaches and people (90% of which were Asian...people and probably cockroaches). Ok, so there weren't any [visable] cockroaches...but you know what I mean. Cheap Asian food just isn't as tasty if it's not dirty. We stood at the door like losers for 5 minutes waiting for someone to notice us. We couldn't walk in any further because....we just physically couldn't. After we were assured that we were losers, the waiter hooked their finger at us to motion us towards a spare dirty table. Turns out that dirty table split into two dirty tables, which another couple of losers followed us to. Before my butt touched the cracked, pleather seats, two dirty menus were thrown at us along with two spoons, bowls, cups and a flask of tea. All dirty i assume. And what would a self-dignified, dirty, Asian eatery be without those dirty little tea flasks?! They're no good unless they haven't been washed for at least a year.

We drool all over the menus (probably how they got so filthy in the first place) and finally narrow it down to three dishes between the two of us. We are well aware that three dishes in a dodgy Asian eatery is way too much food for two people. But fuck me they all looked so dirty and appetising!!! Chee Chee was the nominated orderer since she spent a year living in Beijing and learnt how to speak Chinese...'coz she's Chinese. I'm the demented kind that needs the English in the menu (which they have....thank Buddha!). "Ahasjdk hdi ahuwier ahui", said Chee Chee. "arioe fhewie weurgai!!", said the motherly looking waitress/owner/whatever. Yes...sure thing.

Just as soon as our menus were whisked away, there was a Chinese table fight next to us! "YAHAYAHAH!!!" said the grumpy old Chinese man. "HFhjdakjasjdfha!!!" replied the grumpy young Chinese man. It was amusing to say the least. Fighting over a table I assume and just waiting for one to stab the other with those tacky, orange, plastic chopsticks. The fight ended as quickly as our food came. Bless the Chinese-efficiency!

Spicy-porky noodles ("Jia jang men" or something to that effect), some vego noodles (ask Chee Chee...I have no idea what they were called), and 15 vegetarian dumplings ("begetable jiao-ji" - I think...). How do you describe such food? I have no idea...but I'm drooling just writing this bloody post. The noodles, which we suspect was handmade in-house, were white and plump. Soft, but not mushy. Perfectly dirty little noodles. And the porky meat sauce is somewhat similar to a Chinese bolognese. I just wanted to slam my face into the bowl. I just wasn't able to shovel it into my mouth as quickly as I had liked.

The vegetarian dumplings were pretty good too. Though in retrospect, I think I prefer the meat ones. The filling was minced up vegetables (so minced up, you can't tell what the hell vegetables they were). Chee Chee complained that the dumpling skin was too thick, but I swear that's how they're suppose to be. Doughy goodness. Good, but the noodles was the absolute star.

Chee Chee will tell you about her vegetarian noodles. I was so into my porky noodles, I was oblivious to hers.

We couldn't move. Sat there, like the two losers we were before dinner, to digest. Then there was the matter of the bill. The three dishes, which stuffed us like pigs, came to a whopping $20AUD. WTF?!?! That time we went to Hako, it cost us $104AUD!! Hako shouldn't be in the CEG, as good as it is...David & Camy's is CHEAP! Twenty fucking dollars and we were stuffed with the dirtiest, tastiest food!!

We're no doubt going to revisit David & Camy's in Box Hill. Even if it means we have to slum it in the suburbs. There's no better Chinese food than dirty, cheap, and tasty Chinese food. Totes recommendable!

5 Phats out of 5! It's Phatbulous!!

Huge out.

PS: Sorry for the blabby long post.