House of Dumplings (II)

Seldom do we return to the same eating place within the same month but it seem to be the case here when we had been thinking of sinking our bites into the Guotie (gyozas) and handmade noodles since we last had it weeks back.

And ever since Ric's overseas trip back, he's been niggling on coming over for the Guotie he so missed. My poison is the handmade noodles.

Thus , this morning I made a phone order for lunch (9469-7774) to more intimately addressed as Du Mama (杜妈妈) for her Zha Jiang Mian (炸酱面) and Chives Dumplings that are not in her serving menu.

Zha Jiang Mian, 炸酱面 ($3)

We arrived near 2pm, avoiding the lunch hour crowd.

And our bowl of thick, flat wheat noodles were served promptly with warm, thick and sweet minced meat sauce over it. Topped up with oodles of cucumbers shreds that i like for the nice crunchy bite.

Judging from the texture and irregular cuts of the noodles, it was obviously handmade. The handmade noodle offers a distinctive chewy bite to our usual prepacked Shanghai noodles that were commonly used in this dish.

For the extra punch, we were offered a self-concocted chilli mix for mixing with the minced meat sauce. The chilli mix offers more of fragrance than spiciness; it even proved lovely to go with our gyozas later.

Handmade noodle with well recipe minced meat sauce promotes it to one of the best ZhaJiang Mian i had.

Pan-fried Gyozas, 锅贴 ($5)

Oh, then our 'dream' gyozas arrived; while still busy with our bowls of noodles we couldn't wait to bite into the dipping hot guotie :)

No lapse in the standard from our previous visit.

Chives Dumpling, 韭菜饺 ($5)

Rather than the usual Pork-and-Chives dumplings, we had ordered their Chives Dumplings as we love Chinese Chives.

Maybe because of the specially requested and prepared dumplings, it was served so fresh that you could tell from its super smooth texture and non-sticking to the plate (without any addition of oil).

I popped the whole fat dumplings in one mouthful and juice oozes with each of my bites; it was delightful.

We had then packed some for Granny as mum had reminded us that Chinese Chives dumplings were Granny's favourite.

Good handmade noodles are priceless; i've got to enquire what other types of handmade noodles they have. And i couldn't wait to come back soon for more food indulgence, think i'm seriously getting tangled on its noodles & dumplings here.