Jindalee Villa

That feeling, that sinking feeling you get in your gut when you go to a Chinese restaurant you haven’t been to for a while…
You can’t remember if it was good or bad or why you haven’t been for a while. Well… they call it sinking for a reason as this place was just not what it used to be.
We had the salt and pepper squid for entrée, very promising… hot, tasty… next please. The curry puffs for another entrée. they came out hot, the sauce was a bit of a mystery to us… not red, not brown… not really sweet and sour… there was a strong vinegar taste and smell to these puffs with every bite. Something had gone off, as my husband put it perfectly, don’t they use curry to hide these flavours? So if you can still smell and taste it… it’s not good. We didn’t eat the other 2. The dishes came out curiously as the shredded beef with Peking sauce was more a sizzling beef in Peking sauce sans the shredding… the braised chicken and veggies were nice, so were the braised veggies with fried tofu. The small cockroaches crawling on the wall next to us the entire time we were there did put me off the food as I counted about 4 or 5 not including the 2 smaller ones we killed… they seemed to just keep crawling out from somewhere.
The chef told the waiter that there was nothing wrong with the curry puffs, but we were asked if we wanted to order anything else which was nice… but unless they spray the place, I don’t think we will be back.
Note: this restaurant has recently been renovated and looks a lot better, I will have to give the new look a try — keep you posted Unilocalers.

This little Asian restaurant has a blink-​and-​you-​miss-​it sized frontage. In fact, that’s how I found it… I didn’t blink as I walked to Coles. And voila! There before me, was this little Asian restaurant I had never seen. With its neon lit ‘Open’ sign brightly in my eyes, I’m not sure how I never noticed before.
So soon after, I called the troops and said, «Lets give this place a try». We made a reservation and upon our arrival I realised, reservation not necessary, they’ve got plenty of tables. I thought it would have had smaller space in there judging by its frontage, but to my surprise, plenty of room and even a big round table at the back.
There were no tablecloths or any such thing, it was a very basic table setting. Meaning, bare table and a tin holding the chopsticks, but hey, sometimes that’s all you need. Walls have random portraits hanging and it almost looks like a clinic in there with the lighting and white walls. In saying that, we passed no judgement whatsoever and the troops and I ordered our Chinese favourites.
While going through the menu I came across a dish I haven’t seen at other Chinese restaurants, ‘Morten Bay Bugs’! YUM!!! Oh, it was good. If my caps-​lock doesn’t say it loud enough, I don’t know what would. Highly recommend this dish to anyone who visits this delectable Asian find.
If you plan to go to a restaurant for an intimate dinner with a potential partner, this wouldn’t really be the place… Unless the person you’re taking out already really loves you, you don’t have much to prove and you’re both only in it for the food. Because let’s face it, you don’t come here to ‘woo’ people. You come to Jindalee Villa to make yourself happy and at the end of the day, what’s wrong with that?