Dragon Den Chinese Restaurant - YAGOONA

Crappy service in a crappy deserted ghost town shopping centreWouldn't have even gone if friends and family hadn't organized the event there.

Finally! Excellent yum cha in BankstownNo need to travel all the way to Cabramatta and deal with parking issuesFree parking for 3 hours on site.

Both yum cha and dinner food was very good!!! Service is excellent! and good value for money!!

So my parents kept going on and on about this place and after a hard day of labour at my place.. I decided to shout my parents to their new favourite haunt. For a place that was located on a main road surrounded by businesses that aren't open at night... I was surprised by the amount of people inside. In fact, my parents say that on Saturday nights, there's a line outside as well. Though from my photo below it really juxtaposes my comments. One of my pet peeves is going to a restaurant in Australia and the walls are fill with non-English menus. At least they had a English booklet menu available at the table. I love free soup. I'm glad that even small places like this stick with the tradition. The soup tasted just like home. Great starter to the meal. I drank two bowls because I was starving at this point since we were doing a late dinner with the parents. The reason why we came was the for the "cheap" pigeon. At $13.80 per bird, we got two pigeons to share amongst four. Bit stingy with the prawn crackers considering that at some restaurants they give bagfuls away. Pippis in XO sauce. The sauce was fantastic and the pippis were great.. except they needed to be cleaned better. Quite a bit of sand/dirt taste which was unpleasant... Seafood Fried Rice. This was the highlight of the meal. This is an example of what fried rice should taste like. This is what you should aspire to making the home made ones taste like. Cooked to perfection. Snowpeas and prawns. The snow peas crunched perfectly every bite. The only gripe I have with it is that I paid close to $20 for this dish and the served me frozen prawns. Finished the meal off orange slices. Upon exiting... we were chased out by a guy saying thanks for coming and tell your friends. He was actually the chef of this place and apparently many other famous Chinese restaurants which I've never heard of. Anyways, I wrote this blog, shared it with my friends and did my part of the bargain with him... now it's up to you to try...

So my parents kept going on and on about this place and after a hard day of labour at my place.. I decided to shout my parents to their new favourite haunt. For a place that was located on a main road surrounded by businesses that aren't open at night... I was surprised by the amount of people inside. In fact, my parents say that on Saturday nights, there's a line outside as well. Though from my photo below it really juxtaposes my comments. One of my pet peeves is going to a restaurant in Australia and the walls are fill with non-English menus. At least they had a English booklet menu available at the table. I love free soup. I'm glad that even small places like this stick with the tradition. The soup tasted just like home. Great starter to the meal. I drank two bowls because I was starving at this point since we were doing a late dinner with the parents. The reason why we came was the for the "cheap" pigeon. At $13.80 per bird, we got two pigeons... read more