China Bar

Located on the ground floor beach side of the highway is another of the China Bar franchises. I had the dim sum - shumai and prawn dumplings and they were not like the other china bar restaurants I have eaten at. So therefore a little disappointing yet certainly tasted good. Service was efficient yet not friendly.

Can't go wrong with the Hainanese chicken rice here. I'm addicted to it!! Always delicious, cooked perfectly and it's nice they give you both the dipping sauces. That should be the norm for this dish, not the exception. Crispy skin version is a winner too. Give the wonton noodle soup a go if that's your thing, generous serving with all the trimmings. The dim sims are some of the best i've had. Service is quick, dining area always clean, i just wish they had napkins on the tables.

This used to be my favourite place to come with my client 2 times a week who has a disability. They have new staff and it has gone completely down hill! My client cannot eat her simple chicken fried rice without vegetables anymore as it's so dry and the chicken doesn't taste cooked properly. The language barrier is huge and they don't seem to be trained or know what they are doing. I am vegan and cannot digest meat at all as I get very sick and I always only order the small steamed rice which used to be amazing, perfectly cooked (even if it was the only vegan thing I could get) and today they gave me mushy overcooked gross rice and then when I asked for something else, they gave me chicken broth rice by mistake. This is massively dangerous, I am now very sick vomiting in the bathroom. And they didn't even offer me a refund, none of them seem to understand what was going on and the old boss was actually there today and I explained how downhill it has gone since she and her staff have left, she just shook her head and said yeah unfortunately new staff. We won't be coming back, so disappointing 😔 *Edit* They refunded me

We’ve eaten here before and it was fantastic but last night we got take away and it was so disappointing! The dumplings were inedible, the pasta was so thick and hard and the filling was full of fatty bits - absolutely disgusting and straight to the bin. The rice that came with the lemon chicken was either made the day before or hours earlier, tough and rubber like - again straight to the bin. The lemon sauce for our chicken was tasteless and ruined the very well cooked chicken. The only decent part of our $50 waste of money meal was the bbq pork buns which were delicious. So disappointing we won’t risk it again!