We've been making a practiced instruct of the Melbourne Writers Festival, starting out alongside a Book Club taping over inwards Elsternwick. It was a lot of fun, together with a swell excuse to revisit Ren Dao for a slowly dinner. They agreed to serve us later 9pm on a weeknight without a hint of annoyance, together with a few to a greater extent than Book Clubbers trickled inwards later us to brand it worth their while.
We did our best to hold upwardly decisive, inwards spite of the 70 (!) items on offer, together with our nutrient was served inwards practiced time. The Assam Pedas ($23.90) was a picayune sour together with a picayune spicy, alongside enough of zucchini, carrot, capsicum together with celery adding diversity to some slightly homogeneous mock fish strips... together with a canned pineapple telephone on top. While nosotros gladly polished off the lot, it didn't convey quite the panache of their Kung Po Chicken.
Roti ($4) arrived also hot to grip together with thicker unopen to the edges than nosotros prefer, but it was swell for mopping upwardly the Assam Pedas sauce.
The night's victor was the Hainanese Roasted Chicken Rice ($12.80). Michael was utterly enamoured of the sparse together with crispy edible bean curd peel 'chicken' strips, together with the back-of-the-tongue rut of the chilli sauce took us both yesteryear surprise. The rice mound had a overnice whiff of galangal virtually it, too.
While nosotros finished upwardly together with paid the bill, our waiter shyly recommended a few of her favourites for side yesteryear side fourth dimension (watch out, roast duck together with kokosnoot butter chicken!). It was a overnice gesture that reflects the understated, welcoming atmosphere of Ren Dao together with it had us looking frontwards to a hereafter see earlier we'd fifty-fifty finished this one.
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Our showtime see to Ren Dao is blogged here. It turned upwardly on Veganise This! shortly later but doesn't seem to convey scored whatever recent spider web log attention.
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Ren Dao
275 Glenhuntly Rd, Elsternwick
9523 0150
menu: one, two
Accessibility: The restaurant's entry is quite apartment together with wide, tables within are moderately spaced. We received sum tabular array service. The toilets are unisex but located upwardly a narrow, bending staircase.
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