Chairman Mao

Saturday… finished work a little earlier than usual and headed to Chairman Mao for supper. This is an awesome little Hunan restaurant in Kensington. The place does authentic food, hot and spicy and really honest. Hunan cuisine is really amazing home cooking and this food really rises to the top of Hunan style available in Sydney. It is crazily good value.

On Saturday night, we enjoyed the pickled radish, and the “half meat half fat pork with preserved vegetables” – this is literally its name, translated from Chinese. Every province has its own  version of this dish. This one was perfectly balanced, and I also love the Hakka one I recently had in Hong Kong. Now of course I am totally addicted to this one at Chairman Mao, so…dilemma; Chairman’s Mao famous pork belly or this? How will I decide? I’ll just have to take 8 people and have both!!! So then onto the cumin lamb and stir fried green chillies with preserved egg; the chillies so hot and addictive I couldn’t stop eating them and I love the preserved egg with it. In Sichuan and Hunan cuisine I simply love cumin lamb. This dish was full of sliced garlic stem and just delicious. Then, some Hunan style noodles with boiled beef – great texture on the noodles, really al dente and I love the chilli oil and chewy braised beef sauce. To finish, Sam adored the bean curd and coriander soup. This is a cooling soup that helps put out the fire of the chilli. A great way to finish a meal with a cold beer or cup of tea.

Must get all the cooks from the Rockpool group and head out there for Sunday dinner.

Chairman Mao: 189 Anzac Parade, Kensington.  Tel: 02 9697 9189

Tags: Chairman Mao, china, chinese food, Hunan, Neil Perry, sichuan

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