Kam Fook Seafood Restaurant
Image: With thousands of years of culinary history behind them, it should come as no surprise that the Chinese even do surf’n’turf better, as a decadent cold platter of Suckling Pig and Jellyfish ($?) demonstrated.
With thousands of years of culinary history behind them, it should come as no surprise that the Chinese even do surf’n’turf better, as a decadent cold platter of Suckling Pig and Jellyfish ($?) demonstrated. That was served before my evening’s real ‘golden egg’, a ten-month old BBQ Goose ($88/whole) cooked in the style of Peking duck. It’s glistening crisp skin gives way to tender, less-gamey flesh. I eat the liver too, in a lip smacking tango called Beef Cube Stir Fry with Goose Liver ($28.80) so salty it did have me reaching for my 2010 Vasse Felix Chardonnay ($40) more times than was proper. Aussie-grown goose aces Kam Fook’s Special Roast Chicken ($22.80). Regardless it’s a lovely, moist bird, cooked to perfection in a ‘spaceship oven’, arriving with crisp skin bespeckled by crunchy garlic crisps. A contrasting course of Snow Crab with Ginger and Shallot ($88/kilo) gives me pause. It’s delicate flesh rivals that of mud crab, with a truly tantalising flavour difference that even has me extracting orange lobes of roe. General Manager Alan Yeung (a qualified international food judge) explains Chinese culture dictates large restaurants can demand a better market share of good suppliers. You’ll taste it on the plate here.
Kam Fook Seafood Restaurant
Shop 6010, Level 6, Westfield Shopping Centre, 100 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction
Ph: (02) 9386 9889 www.kamfook.com.au
Chinese $$$-$$$$
