Miss Chu

Miss Chu
Cnr Bourke St & William St
Darlinghurst
Sydney NSW
Ph: (02) 8356 9988

Open 11am - 9pm Mon to Fri

The search was on for a lunch destination. It was later than my usual hour for luncheon and I wanted someplace new.
Thus I found myself at Miss Chu's.

Don't ask me what plastic vs silicon rice paper rolls are. I don't have the faintest notion. I can assure you that the storage cabinet was stationary indeed.

Whilst waiting for my overly large order of food, I sat at a rather slapdashly painted (in black) old style sloped school desk. Fine if you're dining solo but a bit more challenging if you have more than one (or three, as I saw another table attempting) diner. Partly because of the small amount of table space, but also because of the slope.

Prawn & Crab Net Spring Rolls ($4.50)

I like my spring rolls in this "net" form. I only ever seem to find them in the occasional Vietnamese place. These were undeniably top notch spring rolls. Golden, crunchy, and the filling chunky so that you could actually see the pieces of prawn. The only negative was the price - $4.50 is a leetle much for a couple of spring rolls.

Lemongrass Beef (Eye Fillet) Vermicelli Salad ($9.50)

This was jammed very tightly into a takeaway container that was a bit too small to fit it all in. A generous serving (though again perhaps a little on the higher side of the price equation). They did not skint on the amount of beef but it was a bit oversalted for my personal tastes. The rest of it, including the dressing, was not bad at all but if I come back I'll probably try something else.

Whilst eating, I noticed just to my right a nice big bag of Ho's dumplings waiting to be cooked. Now I know that Ho's do a roaring trade to restaurants and the like but I don't know.....I guess that I want to maintain the illusion a bit that most places make their own dumplings (or at least their own filling with purchased skin) and that if they don't, there isn't a great big bag of the things staring at me and making me think the inevitable about how much it costs to buy a similarly sized bag from Ho's vs how much they are probably charging just to steam/ boil them.

A final shot of Miss Chu's. On the right, out of the photo, are some tables with little bag receptacles underneath them. A handy thing for handbags. This isn't somewhere that you go for a nice lunch out, as comfort isn't a major consideration, but for a quick takeaway lunch it is a good option, though not necessarily the cheapest one.

[AP]