Their location at Swanston St is central, but nondescript. The only advertising is sign with an arrow pointing to Noodle Kingdom, the restaurant on the ground floor. Diners enter Noodle Kingdom and do a quick shuffle to the left where a small lift awaits. There are other restaurants in the building but in my excitement to get to Gong De Lin, I neglected to observe the board showing the other tenants in the building.
Our lift opened into a clean and tidy seating area with floorboards. We were ushered up the steps by a friendly waitperson to a little nook near the big windows which had 3 booths.
We ordered aubergine with bean paste and spicy mock beef. Dishes were served and eaten on clear and coloured glass dishes which I found so different to other places. Generally one would find ceramic and melamine dishes, not glass.
I liked the aubergine dish. The aubergine is first fried, then stir fried with hot bean paste and a little sugar for balance. It also had minced mock meat just like the non vege version.
The mock beef dish was also in the same sauce, so it felt like eating two of the same, just with different ingredients. We should have paid more attention to what we ordered but the rule was my friend would choose a dish she would like to have and I would choose the other to be fair.
The food was good, and is a good break from the Cantonese style Chinese vegetarian restaurants around. The restaurant is easy to get to, so Gaz should not have any excuses the next time we go to the city!
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