Red House, Scoresby

The early bird catches the worm! This came true today. It's not the most conventional story for this sating but here goes.. if we had came earlier, to be precise 1 month earlier to this restaurant, we would have been able to enjoy the lunch menu for $1 less each dish! I warned you that it wouldn't be the best story to illustrate this saying!

Nevertheless,  $12.80 for pork belly and tofu on rice and $14.80 for roast duck with noodles is cheaper than most places. It is value for money even if it was for repurposed dishes cooked with yesterday's roast meats.

Roast pork belly with tofu and veges on rice. It came with lots of sauce poured on firm rice, yes the type of rice I like. Gaz chides me to preferring hard rice to fluffy soft rice, and I tell him not to 'sek yun fan' or translated to English 'lead a sugar mommy life'. 

 Lots of roast duck pieces (back pieces and few meaty pieces) in delicious salty soy with egg noodles in soup. I love how generous they are with the veges. Other restaurants would give 2 leaves of bok choy, not even enough for a meat loving cave man.

This restaurant has it's regular clientele, most of them middle aged to elderly Canto speaking people (my gosh, that includes us!) who obviously know where to get some good food for reasonable prices. The service is friendly and efficient. 

A quirk of the restaurant is that the aquariums of live seafood is positioned in a little lockes courtyard visible from inside the restaurant. Cute, but oh so draughty and cold when one is seated close to the courtyard. There are bottles of chilli oil and soy sauce on a beam in the wall. It is above most people's eye line, but if you missed dipping your noodles into the chilli oil, then you have missed some good stuff! The chilli oil is fragrant and salty, has fermented black beans and anchovies and vitally, missing nasty copious amounts of msg.

One inconvenience is the parking and access. Turning into this restaurant's only driveway from a 80km per hour thoroughfare is a little scary. If there are no parking (and there are limited spaces), you'll have to find parking at the nearby shopping strip. So come early and beat the traffic.