ADELAIDE: Lantern by Nu

My third post of the day! I'm very hardworking eh, actually no la its because Nick is out playing badminton and so I'm free to use the internet to upload. Otherwise this uploading lags his computer game alot and he gets so moody. He's mood has already been very crap the last few weeks because he sees me being miserable and moppy about my current stressor.

Dinner last night was at Lantern by Nu. This restaurant is one that I have been walking past multiple times, because it's so near Genki Sushi and I eat alot of sushi.
I was totally shocked walking into Lantern because I have NEVER imagined it to be so huge !

There's degustation and ala carte menu available, recently I've realised that Nick and I have been doing ala cartes heaps.... hmmm

We started off with some street eats. Barbequed pork balls $12
Hmmm, I wasn't exactly sure if these balls were just bbq-ed right off some frozen pork balls. They taste strangely similar to ones that my mom cooks for dinner ( and she buys them off the supermarket )

Crispy chicken winglets $12

These winglets were shockingly small, it's as though the chickens were malnourished...

It was tasty tho!

I really like these Thai fishcakes $12

I really enjoyed this dish too - betel leaves with crispy pork belly and son in law quail eggs

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS TOM YUM SOUP ! $14

Grilled chicken in banana flower salad $22

I can't really say much about this dish, it was tasty but it came with peanuts and I'm allergic to peanut so I just ate a little, but that little bit was enough to send me scratching my limbs the whole night. My dinner guests loved this dish tho, I think some of them were voting for it to be their favourite dish!

Kang Kong $14. 

So on the menu they drew 4 chillis on this dish, and we don't really eat spicy food so I asked to cut down on spice. There was zero chilli taste in this at all, which I thought really was such a shame ): I didn't want it 4 chillis but I really wished it had a tinge of spiciness. Nonetheless, it was quite flavourful, I quite enjoyed it

THIS IS THE BEST PAD THAI I'VE HAD IN ADELAIDE $16

Slow cooked beef cheek $34

Very flavourful 

Flounder

I think for Adelaide, this is really a pretty good Thai restaurant. To be honest, I'm not the best at judging thai food because I've never been exposed much to Thai growing up.

Back in Singapore, my family only goes to 1 thai restaurant. And so I grew up only knowing that taste. When I made multiple trips to Bangkok over the last few years, my family also still always went back to the same thai restaurant ( which was recommended by my dad's friend), so we only knew authentic thai by that restaurant's standards. 

Let me know what are your thoughts about this place! 

Lantern by Nu 

Closed every monday and Tuesday

ADELAIDE: Wang-derful 食库门

There's been so many instances where I'm talking to a patient and suddenly the patient goes

" You from China?"

I do also get the occasional...

" You from Vietnam?" ( Can't blame them, since so many of the asians in Adelaide are Vietnamese"

followed by 

" You from Japan? " (ehhhh, Thank you for the compliment! )

I get the least " You from Malaysia/Singapore?"

Anyway, Nick always say I have a China face 

I really got China face meh? 

I thought I only had a fat face.

Hehe, I wouldn't mind if you say I have a pretty China face. Some chinese actress are so gorgeous !

Anyway, while I'm not certain if I exactly have a China face, what I'm certain is.. I LOVE CHINESE FOOD. 

I love Shanghai dumplings (xiao long bao) so much that I've specially flown over to Shanghai for them. You may check my post out (nanxiang xiaolong at cheng huang miao) and (nanxiang xiao long at nanjing ) for my favourite Shanghai dumpling restaurant in Shanghai, which also, coincidentally made it to the Michelin Guide :D

Unfortunately, work schedule and finances is not allowing me to make a trip to Shanghai this year... But thankfully, I recently managed to find a restaurant here in Adelaide that makes edible xiaolongbaos (I'm saying edible because I've tried several restaurants xiaolongbaos that are just bad tasting, AND WORSE, they gave me the runs )

I've tried both the pork xiaolongbaos ($8.80 for 8) as well as the pork and crab meat xiaolongbaos, and I say, definitely go for the pork and crab meat ($11.80 for 8)

I like their fried dumpling (sheng jian bao) too. Also go for the shengjianbao with both crab meat and pork.

Their drunken chicken (not pictured ) is pretty good as well.

I remember when I was in Shanghai, I used to visit this cafe which was near the hospital I was attached to almost everyday for tea. They served the best xian dou jiang ( salted soy bean milk with condiments)
The xian dou jiang at Wang-deful is so horrible, PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT.
Another note, please do not expect a good service. I didn't mind the service because I come from Asia and it's no surprise when affordable/cheapish places have service staff who look like the whole world owes them a living (:

Wang-derful
Morphett Street, Adelaide