Post-Deng Cafe

214-216 Little Bourke St

Melbourne 3000 VIC

I realized there is no structured style to my blogs and it all depends on my mood when writing one. So that being said I'm feeling about 30 degs at the moment.

Waking up late on a lazy Saturday morning and starving to death, my sister and I went in search of a place to eat. Ended up in Chinatown and since Lemon Bistro was closed for some reason (have to try another time), we ended up in Post-Deng Cafe. No, I didn't go into the place because the asian woman who always stands in front of the restaurant convinced me to. Personally I find most of them a turn off / annoying.

Having cheap lunch specials on their board was the convincing part but then inside we opted for the $12.50 per person (2 person) yum cha lunch banquet. There was another banquet called executive or business banquet for the same price.

Yum Cha Lunch Banquet

- a bowl of chicken corn soup (each)

- a plate of only 2 springrolls and 4 wontons

- a yum cha sample of a BBQ pork bun, a sweet bun, a shang hai dumpling, and those 2 other standard yum cha pieces that I can't seem to spell but you can easily work them out. (each)



- a bowl of rice or/ fried rice (each)


- unlimited chinese tea!

Verdict:

On the plus side it filled us up. On the downside most of it was way below average like I could even make better fried rice. The soup and the springrolls were average. The best part of the meal would be the yum cha items where each were atleast decent and didn't seem like they were frozen products. I could drink cups of chinese tea (as always).

From user reviews the service has been criticized and I shall second that. Though the girls seems like very nice people they were fooling around (eg. giggling, tickling, (yes, it all sounds good), and just talking loudly) when not attending customers (it wasn't busy at that time though). At one time when we wanted a chinese tea refill it took 5 mins to grab the attention of one of them because no one was even at the front half of the restaurant since I could see all of the staff gathered around the back.

Was it worth $12.50 each?

It would better to invest in maybe a nice sushi box. Melbourne Central Sushi Sushi on Lonsdale side $13.50 for the bento box...yummy! Or even the Hiyabishi box (might be spelled wrong) for $8.60 from O'Bento MC foodcourt.

The music was decent but everything else didn't seem to be up to standards. Maybe they perform better at dinner but I can't / wouldn't confirm that because I doubt I'll be going back to that place soon since there are many other better options in Chinatown.