Egg fried rice, xiao long bao & prawn wanton soup ($29)!
A delivered Chinese dinner: egg fried rice, a basket of xiao long bao, and a prawn wanton soup. $29.
A circuit-breaker dinner at home with BB, a Chinese spread delivered from a sit-down restaurant that had pivoted to delivery: egg fried rice, xiao long bao and prawn wanton soup, $29. 🥟😋
What we had ($29):
- Egg fried rice
- Xiao long bao (8 pieces)
- Prawn wanton soup
Even delivered, this travelled well. The egg fried rice was the Cantonese style, each grain coated in egg and lightly golden, fluffy and savoury with scallion through it, holding its wok flavour despite the trip.
The xiao long bao were the highlight, eight neatly pleated soup dumplings that arrived intact, the thin skins not torn and the hot soup still sealed inside. Lift one onto your spoon, nip a hole, sip the broth, then eat the rest with the ginger and black vinegar that came on the side. Juicy and properly made.
The prawn wanton soup rounded it out, plump wantons with a clean prawn snap and blanched greens in a clear broth that actually tasted of bones rather than stock cube, with a dash of white pepper. At $29 for a proper restaurant spread during lockdown it felt like a real treat, the kind of meal that made staying in feel a bit more special.
Overall: 4.5 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Fluffy egg fried rice, juicy xiao long bao and a clean prawn wanton soup, a lovely lockdown dinner. Would re-order.
