Ling Nan is one of the older generation of restaurants in Chinatown. If one were to categorise the restaurants on Little Bourke Street in terms of family members, then Ling Nan would be a grandma in the family.
The type of food that can be found here is also the same. When you go over to your grandma's for a meal, the food choices are usually limited to the ones you have always known. In Ling Nan, I do not think the menu has changed much from 10 years ago. But this is can be a positive. Why reinvent the wheel? Just stick to the crowd favourites!
We ordered the sliced beef with vegetables and boneless chicken with ginger and spring onions. The beef dish was tasty with the beef tender and well cooked, but the chicken dish was slightly too sweet for me. We also ordered steamed rice to go with the dishes, and that came in the customary small rice bucket.
We left the restaurant with a full stomach but with a little indignation because we were charged for an extra portion of rice for packing some leftover rice in the bucket with the rest of the leftover dishes in a plastic container to take home. There should have been notices in the restaurant if they wanted to charge because we only took away the rice because we did not want it to go to waste. Perhaps they do 're-use' the leftover rice in each rice bucket after it has been served to their customers for dishes like fried rice, or just simply to serve to another customer?
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