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V-Rating: VV The eastern suburbs in Sydney is synonymous with the rich and beautiful, and all the trappings that accompany them. However, a visit to the Anzac Parade restaurant strip in Kingsford provides a healthy reminder that there is another very diverse and interesting side to the area. I’m a fan of the Anzac Parade restaurants. There’s a great range of Asian restaurants to choose from, including Indonesian, Malaysian, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. With the University of New South Wales just around the corner, the emphasis is on cheap and cheerful food pitched to a student budget and milieu.
Last Sunday Andy and I thought we’d make the most of our rental car and try out the delights of Anzac Parade. We settled on Ratu Sari, an Indonesian restaurant that is relatively ‘up market’ by comparison to its neighbours. We were lured to Ratu Sari by the long list of vegetable dishes on the menu. It was only when we got inside that we realised ‘vegetable’ was not the same as ‘vegetarian’. Most dishes contained shrimp paste, prawn crackers or occasionally chicken. While this was a bit disappointing given our initial high hopes, there were still a few wholly vegetarian offerings and full marks to Ratu Sari for being clear about their contents of their vegetable dishes. For entree we tried the deep fried cauliflower and krupuk singkong (deep fried cassave chips - always a favourite with Andy). For mains we shared the sayur lodeh (a vegetable curry in a coconut milk base) and the vegetarian cap cai. The last dish was a recommendation of the waiter after we explained that we were vegetarian and keen on a dish without seafood or meat products. The mains were both surprisingly good using authentic Indonesian ingredients. The vegetable curry was our favourite, and used choko, as well as more conventional vegetables. The sizzling, fresh cap cai was so big that as much as we wanted to, we couldn’t finish it. |
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