Ocean Treasure Yum Cha Overview, Cabramatta Should Eat Dishes

We take a drive out to Cabramatta for a yum cha feast at Ocean Treasure at Cabrabowls garden bowls membership. There’s yum cha dishes like crispy ham sui gok and arduous to seek out prawn fritter rice rolls to a dramatic pork pyramid. Discover out what the meals is like right here and why you yum cha lovers would possibly wish to go to right here.

It is a sweltering scorching Sunday lunchtime when Laura and I arrive at Ocean Treasure in Cabramatta. This Chinese language restaurant is situated inside CabraBowls or the garden bowls membership and serves Yum Cha at lunchtime. We stroll previous the undercover garden the place one household is braving the warmth and taking part in lamb bowls. We shortly make a beeline for the air conditioned consolation of the restaurant.

The Ocean Treasure restaurant has a entrance space with crimson arched rooms and greenery and this opens up into a big restaurant room. The trolley women are busy wheeling round their trolleys on the ground.

As quickly as we sit down we order some jasmine tea however the 40C+ climate is so power depleting that we additionally want some soda water. You’ll want to go to the bar for this and it is $12 for a big jug of water from the pump.

“You need footballs?” says a really pleasant trolley woman and we eagerly nod sure. “I will offer you contemporary ones,” she says. “May we get all of the sauces please?” we ask. She’s chuckles and says “I will offer you all the sauces!” and dispenses some candy and bitter sauce and mayonnaise. These footballs aren’t fairly as crammed as say those at Garden Palace however the glutinous rice outer is excellent. It is so crispy, tasty, moreish and importantly freshly fried. Give me a dozen of those.

The following trolley to go previous has our favorite yum cha merchandise that may be arduous to seek out. It is a donut fritter full of prawn mince after which wrapped in rice noodles. It’s totally scrumptious as a result of it’s crispy, smooth and bouncy in a single chew. Within the metropolis lots of locations not make it or it must be a particular order. It seems all it’s essential to do is go to Cabramatta for these and so they’re simply out there on the trolley!

Typically we see an merchandise and we do not know what it’s. That is a kind of occasions and they do not know the best way to describe it in English so we simply order it. At first look it truly appears to be like like slices of pineapple nevertheless it’s a steamed cake known as Huang Jin Gao or golden cake. It is much like the steamed Ma Lai Gao however extra yeasty and buttery smelling. I am glad that we tried it nevertheless it is not actually both of our factor.

The following gadgets come from the steamed trolley. The garlic chives are at all times a should and these have the requisite garlicky kick plus a prawn filling.

Subsequent up are the tofu squares topped with prawn mince in a lightweight oyster sauce. These are fairly delicate in flavour and want a little bit of chilli sauce to pep them up.

Then on our favorite girl’s trolley we see an merchandise that I had first eaten in Singapore. It is a prawn ball coated in crunchy tapioca with a centre of melted tasty cheese and is designed to seem like lychees. The fried gadgets are glorious right here as they’re freshly fried and that is no exception. We each love the crunchy outer, bouncy prawn filling and the gooey cheese centre.

Likewise the deep fried black sesame balls have that superb glutinous texture to them with a sweetened black sesame filling. They’re so good that even wholesome eater Laura goes again for an additional.

I at all times should have prawn har gow every time I’m going to yum cha and often they style very comparable irrespective of the place you go (a lot in order that I might have sworn they had been all made on the identical place). However these ones are completely different. They’re higher and with a lot extra flavour to them. I can not clarify it however they stand out in a metropolis stuffed with har gows.

“You have to order the pork pyramid!” says Laura. Regardless that she does not eat pork or beef she is the form of good friend that at all times thinks about what I’d prefer to eat. She had seen the pork pyramid on social media and it’s fairly a watch catching dish that must be seen to be believed. It takes half-hour to make so we additionally order the mushroom formed buns with custard. These look lovable and are full of loads of scrumptious salted egg custard that spills out with each chew.

Half an hour later the pork arrives in it jiggly pyramid formed glory. It is an architectural marvel and is strips of pork stomach usual right into a sq. pyramid round preserved mustard inexperienced centre with an oyster sauce gravy. One of the best ways to sort out it’s from the highest. The pork stomach is meltingly smooth and it might go effectively with some steamed rice. It is a pretty big dish so good for sharing.

It is arduous to inform how a lot every dish is at yum cha as a result of they simply stamp your card however the finish invoice is $155 however that additionally contains the pyramid, plus loads of dumplings to take dwelling too!

So inform me Pricey Reader, hahve you ever seen a pork pyramid earlier than? Have you ever ever seen or tried the golden cake?

This meal was independently paid for.

Ocean Treasure

Cabra Bowls, 82 Longfield St, Cabramatta NSW 2166

Telephone: (02) 8722 4322

Open 7 days 10am-3pm, 5-9:30pm