I went and had dinner after Kendo training yesterday with some friends. We were down in Chinatown and while waiting we potted about in the 'night' markets in Dixon St, which is on Friday nights during summer. While waiting, because we expected to be waiting a while, we got some snack-like food. There is a store called Hotou (I think?) that does these mini-pancake things with a filler, so we got some with green tea, very hot and yummy. We then went to Macca's so I could get a drink because I was still thirsty from training before we returned for some takoyaki from another stall. The takoyaki was nice and hot, though one side of it was collapsed, indicatind that they were being cheapskates and using less batter to make the balls, but it was still fun to watch the bonito flakes wiggle about in the heat before they got drowned in sauce.
Once the others got there, we finally decided to have dinner at Pancakes at the Rocks in Darling Harbour because someone wanted vegetarian, someone wanted meat, and the others didn't really mind or care.
I ordered a chicken cesear salad while people had ribs, pancakes and pizza's, with the vegetarian person having vegetarian nachos. I was a little disappointed with the salad because it was actually lacking in the cesar salad dressing. It was also very salty without the creamy dressing to take the sharp edge off. The portion was reasonable, but besides the chicken tasting pretty good, the rest was quite ordinary sadly. The conversation around the table was a bit empty for me as where I sat, I was kind of in the middle of bubbles of conversation, so I had a lot of opportunity to contemplate my salad. The two bread slices with supposedly what may have once been cheese were grilled by the looks but were dead cold and limp, not at all baked crispy like perhaps they should have been. The croutons were fine, crunchy, but the lettuce was also very flappy and weak in texture, not to mention the size was very small. There was too much bacon in it, and the level of cheese was reasonable. I think that the glue of the dressing missing was really what killed it from being a ceasar salad to being a chicken and bacon salad.
So, the verdict is, don't get the salad.
From appearances also, don't get the vegetarian nachos, it looked pretty pathetic also.
Once the others got there, we finally decided to have dinner at Pancakes at the Rocks in Darling Harbour because someone wanted vegetarian, someone wanted meat, and the others didn't really mind or care.
I ordered a chicken cesear salad while people had ribs, pancakes and pizza's, with the vegetarian person having vegetarian nachos. I was a little disappointed with the salad because it was actually lacking in the cesar salad dressing. It was also very salty without the creamy dressing to take the sharp edge off. The portion was reasonable, but besides the chicken tasting pretty good, the rest was quite ordinary sadly. The conversation around the table was a bit empty for me as where I sat, I was kind of in the middle of bubbles of conversation, so I had a lot of opportunity to contemplate my salad. The two bread slices with supposedly what may have once been cheese were grilled by the looks but were dead cold and limp, not at all baked crispy like perhaps they should have been. The croutons were fine, crunchy, but the lettuce was also very flappy and weak in texture, not to mention the size was very small. There was too much bacon in it, and the level of cheese was reasonable. I think that the glue of the dressing missing was really what killed it from being a ceasar salad to being a chicken and bacon salad.
So, the verdict is, don't get the salad.
From appearances also, don't get the vegetarian nachos, it looked pretty pathetic also.
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