Wednesday, June 1, 2016

WT Ba Shu Feng SzeChuan Food

Auckland posts: After eating at Ba Fu Eatery and Noodle Canteen, we tried a new Chinese eatery which turned out to have the best tasting Chinese food so we went there quite often to have our dinner.

Beef noodle soup (small) - NZD 8 (about MYR22 now). The beef was tender and flavourful.

Beef and Celery Dumplings in Soup (small portion) - NZD 8.50 (about MYR23.40 now). This is the best dumplings I have ever eaten (compared to those I have eaten in Taipei, KL, Beijing, Shanghai). The skin is thick, doughy, soft yet chewy, simply delicious!

Stewed pork meatballs with noodles - NZD 10 (about MYR27.50 now). The chinese name for this dish is Hóng shāo shī zi tóu miàn (红烧狮子头面) which literally translates to "braised lion's head noodles" because the pork meatballs look like "lion's head". The meatballs are very tasty too.


Takeaway: Pork and chives dumplings (NZD8.50 for a small portion) and fried rice (NZD 11).

A look at the fillings of a dumpling. The fried rice looks a bit oily but tastes fine.

I did not take photos of the eatery so here are two photos from zo ma to. It is a very small eatery so most of the time, all the seats are taken so we have to resort to takeaways. The name of this eatery is Basu Lounge, Auckland (巴蜀风四川小吃 - Bā shǔ fēng sì chuān xiǎo chī) and it specialises in Sze Chuan cuisine.

26 comments:

  1. I have never tried braised lion's head noodles before, I guess the meatballs must be very tasty, I like fried meatballs

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  2. Yes, that's one helluva good looking bowl of beef noodles. I sure would want to keep going back for more too. I guess you would not know the exact address or location, eh?

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    1. The exact address can be found here:

      www.zomato.com/auckland/basu-lounge-takapuna

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  3. From the looks, the beef noodles and fried rice looks most delicious to me. I'm surprised to see styrofoam packaging used in NZ though.

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    1. Although there are many environmental friendly restaurants around, I guess there isn't a mandate that forbids the usage of this packaging.

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  4. I don't really like cabbage in soup. Well, I sometimes do that too lah when I cook because, well, lazy. But I will not like to see it when I eat out. To me, the best way to eat cabbage is to stir fry with egg (because that's how my mama does it hahaha). The lion head noodles would look more appealing to me if they use other green leafy veggie.

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    1. Your mother do not even put cabbage into ABC soup? My mother does.

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    2. No, she doesn't. Her ABC soup = potatoes, carrots, onions, tomatoes, corns, meat bones...

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    3. Hhhmmm, seems like my mother does it differently.

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  5. The three bowls of noodles sure look delicious to me! And I have a weakness for fried rice.

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    1. I think you will like this fried rice. Yum! Yum!

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  6. The beef noodles looks good... fried rice is quite normal but then when overseas, sure yearn for rice one... I am talking about myself.. hahaaha..

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    1. Many M'sians can't do without rice overseas, not only you, hehehe.

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  7. You seemed to be eating Chinese very often while in NZ. Have a great day, dear! xoxo

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    1. If I went there alone, I will eat all Western food but then I am with my colleagues who need their Chinese food, hehehehe.

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  8. Oh this is the best-looking NZ Chinese dishes so far.

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  9. Everything looked good in this post. The beef noodle, dumpling and fried rice. But dont look at the prices. Lol.

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    1. Cannot convert, cannot convert else will sakit hati, hehehe.

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  10. Looks good indeed. The price is alright if not converted to RM.

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    1. Yes, you are right, cannot convert. Tastes good too.

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  11. Both the Beef & Celery Dumplings soup and Stewed pork meatballs with noodles looked new to me!

    I would be like you, eating all the western or native's food when I visit their foreign countries.

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    1. If you go china, then you will see these two dishes - Beef & Celery Dumplings soup and Stewed pork meatballs with noodle.

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  12. I love Szechuan food. We used to have one Szechuan restaurant in Ipoh but no more.

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