My family and I have been coming here for years, possibly, through several owner changes as well…read more On this recent trip, we came here with my parents' friends for lunch on the weekend. The place was empty and I don't know why. The food is absolutely stellar and from the interaction of my parents and my parents' friends with the owner, I can tell they come here often. The Japanese style beef is tender and flavorful, as was the "sang chow guat" which is similar to sweet and sour pork but not as sweet nor as sour. It is so fresh and seasoned beautifully. The salt and pepper tofu is also delicious as is the "sang chow ngau yuk fan" which is a beef fried rice. It was a tad greasy but so tasty. The piece de resistance of the meal was the mud crab topped with rice vermecelli which has soaked up all the flavors from the crab. This was absolutely delicious and we (or shall I say, I) ate every little bit from the clay pot. There are other specials such as the pigeon which I've had years ago on previous visits, and I remember it being very good. The restaurant serves up pretty authentic Chinese food which I find is so hard to find in Brisbane when you want it done well. This place pretty much has remained consistent and is definitely a great place when you're looking for authentic fare. My dad didn't want me to write a review about it because he thought it would make it harder for him to get a table. HAHA.

When I saw that one of the chinese restaurants put on their takeaway menu 'the best chinese food in…read morecentenary' I thought automatically... no, they can't claim that title legitimately. So I went on a search, asked friends and put my ear to the ground. I heard there was another great chinese little place up the road, still in Centenary... I thought, yes, i'm up for the challenge. I will compare their dishes same for same, and let's see what I find out. That opponent was Good Taste. I am happy to report, it is just that. Or should I call it Great Taste? The Chow Kuey Teow (yummy fried noodle dish, trust me, it's yummy) was fried with the right heat in a wok, giving it that great smoking taste. The sweet and sour pork belly was crispy, sweet and sour and very appetising. The prices were pretty much the same as well. Well call me an asian, sit me in a hawker stall on the naked streets of Kuala Lumpur and hand me a Good Taste dish, I am there. The food is authentic, fresh, piping hot when they serve it, and they are friendly, fast and guess what... if you go there for dinner with a group larger than 4, they give you a free soup appetiser and a free desert, plus oranges. Bonus! Chinese people like their free stuff, so for chinese people to be giving free stuff away, you can only guess what happens. If you can't, it makes chinese people beyond happy! So it comes as no surprise that on Friday nights and weekends, this little Great Tasting place is packed full of big groups of people. Even the derelict shopping centre it's located in won't stop people coming in the door. Love it. Give me some more chilli. Maybe the other chinese place should put 'second best place to get chinese food in centenary'.

So, it was raining, I had just finished a terrible shift work and it felt like my stomach had…read morecollapsed into an aching black hole. Conscious of the fact that I needed to eat something before my stomach began to munch on my already struggling liver, I ran into the first place I saw: Yuet Wah. Now, I normally hate ordering takeout for one because you always end up with too much rice and too much of one particular meal. On occasion I have compensated for this by buying two different meals with the intention of saving some for leftovers - only to find myself 30 minutes later with peking sauce all over my face and shirt with not a morsel left. My binge eating problem aside, Yuet Wah has an excellent range of solo diner options that includes both rice and a reasonable serving of a particular meal. Being the stinge I am I was ecstatic when I discovered that I was able to receive all of this for less then $10!! As I waited for my meal I began to check the rest of restaurant out. The dining area was a little uninspired but perfectly practical. There were tables, chairs and wine buckets, but that was pretty much it. I began to wonder what this place was before it was a restaurant that seems to offer meals from every single country in Asia. It quite clearly used to be a house. What type of people used to live in a house that is now a takeaway restaurant? The point I'm getting at is that the atmosphere wasn't convincing and seemed induce bouts of nostalgia. When I returned home I quickly ate my Mongolian Lamb with rice on my bed watching some documentary hosted by Oprah about the holocaust. As you can tell it wasn't the best evening ever but it may have had very little to do with my trip to Yuet Wah. The food was decent but it isn't something you'd write home about. Regardless I licked the takeaway container clean and went to bed.

Really enjoyed the fried rice and satay chicken. Perfect ratio of chicken to Veges. Service was…read morefriendly and the restaurant was really busy for takeout on a Thursday night which is always a great sign.

This place used to be better 15 years ago. I would now give them three stars only because there is…read moreno option for two and a half stars. Three stars is too generous, and two stars is a too mean. On average three stars out of five for food - the food usually ranges from acceptable to good, but can occasionally be terrible. Service is really, really, really bad and they have a big attitude problem - they are horrible at times. One star out of five for service. The owner and staff can be appallingly rude. They are not stupid, and I am certain they know what basic manners mean, but they don't give a damn about how they speak to customers. They only care about money. We only go there (occasionally) because we live in the area.

stir fry cafe is the absolute best. price and serving size is amazing and the quality of the food…read moreis incomparable. Stir Fry Cafe has the feel like a comforting home meal with the best delivery and customer service. can not recommend high enough.

We were feeling a bit down because our favourite chinese place had recently closed down (rip darra…read morepalace) and this restaurant opened up. First feeling - not a great place for little kids... but you can go there with little kids if you would like. The owner is really pedantic on keeping the place clean and tidy which is really really good, but it also makes you afraid to make a mess. The food was really nice, but on the slightly expensive side, we ordered 2 entrees, 3 mains and paid $80+ for it on a Friday 2 days prior to Father's Day... as I saw an ad on Facebook saying 10% off, book this Father's Day weekend! But we didn't get the 10% off as it wasn't the Sunday exactly... which was okay I suppose (I felt the advertising was a little misleading). Our normal chinese place would have cost us closer to $40. Furniture looks great, chairs are really heavy to move. Not to be picky, but we ordered a $4 ginger beer, and they poured 1/2 into our glass, put the other 1/2 in the fridge... we weren't too sure what was happening with the other 1/2 so we asked them to bring us the bottle... which they were hesitant about. Just little things, I know I am nit picking, but i'm big on having a good restaurant experience. The food was nice, a two of our dishes had the same vegies through it so they pretty much tasted the same... for the price was a bit of a let down. But it's worth a try.

Karaoke at Bens on a Friday night is actually the best thing ever. Settle in for a delectable meal…read more(if you can choose between the wide array of options), spoil yourself with BYO wine, and show off your Australian idol skills. People get in to it. The most fun karaoke night I have been to in ages. I highly recommend the spring rolls!

Don't go here expecting a 5 star restaurant, this place is 3 and a half at its best. Having said…read morethat, the place is decent, clean and the service is pretty fast. They do tend to cram a lot of tables into the joint, but to experience the food and the 'Ben's Restaurant Experience' like it should be experienced, you need to go there on a Friday or Saturday night and stay past 9pm. They have KARAOKE people!!! It's so much fun and it makes the place come alive. From the hours of 9pm to 11:30pm on a Friday and Saturday night, you can get up there and try out your singing voice in front of the restaurant. You can pick your song and be a star, or be boo'd off stage. Hey listen, I got up there with my friend and we were terrible and people still cheered us on! I think the worse the singer you are, the more cheer you got. A verrrry good incentive for those shy ones! So yes, the food is very tasty, especially the deep fried beef strips in peking sauce... oh so yum. But visit for the karaoke... not many chinese restaurants do this... and it's worth a shot! Big smily face!

The food at Lin's is fresh and delicious! Many authentic Chinese dishes, our favourite is the…read moreszechuan style mapo tofu. Not to mention the dumplings - we succumb every time, they are so fresh and flavoursome. We've been back 4 or 5 times since our first visit and every time the service is friendly, the vegies are really crispy, and the food is really good. We hope others in the area support Lin's as they are in a tough tenancy that doesn't get as much foot traffic as other restaurants further down Boundary St. Definitely recommend!!

This little Asian restaurant has a blink-and-you-miss-it sized frontage. In fact, that's how I…read morefound it... I didn't blink as I walked to Coles. And voila! There before me, was this little Asian restaurant I had never seen. With its neon lit 'Open' sign brightly in my eyes, I'm not sure how I never noticed before. So soon after, I called the troops and said, "Lets give this place a try". We made a reservation and upon our arrival I realised, reservation not necessary, they've got plenty of tables. I thought it would have had smaller space in there judging by its frontage, but to my surprise, plenty of room and even a big round table at the back. There were no tablecloths or any such thing, it was a very basic table setting. Meaning, bare table and a tin holding the chopsticks, but hey, sometimes that's all you need. Walls have random portraits hanging and it almost looks like a clinic in there with the lighting and white walls. In saying that, we passed no judgement whatsoever and the troops and I ordered our Chinese favourites. While going through the menu I came across a dish I haven't seen at other Chinese restaurants, 'Morten Bay Bugs'! YUM!!! Oh, it was good. If my caps-lock doesn't say it loud enough, I don't know what would. Highly recommend this dish to anyone who visits this delectable Asian find. If you plan to go to a restaurant for an intimate dinner with a potential partner, this wouldn't really be the place... Unless the person you're taking out already really loves you, you don't have much to prove and you're both only in it for the food. Because let's face it, you don't come here to 'woo' people. You come to Jindalee Villa to make yourself happy and at the end of the day, what's wrong with that?

That feeling, that sinking feeling you get in your gut when you go to a Chinese restaurant you…read morehaven't been to for a while.... You can't remember if it was good or bad or why you haven't been for a while. Well... they call it sinking for a reason as this place was just not what it used to be. We had the salt and pepper squid for entree, very promising... hot, tasty... next please. The curry puffs for another entree.. they came out hot, the sauce was a bit of a mystery to us... not red, not brown... not really sweet and sour... there was a strong vinegar taste and smell to these puffs with every bite. Something had gone off, as my husband put it perfectly, don't they use curry to hide these flavours? So if you can still smell and taste it... it's not good. We didn't eat the other 2. The dishes came out curiously as the shredded beef with Peking sauce was more a sizzling beef in Peking sauce sans the shredding... the braised chicken and veggies were nice, so were the braised veggies with fried tofu. The small cockroaches crawling on the wall next to us the entire time we were there did put me off the food as I counted about 4 or 5 not including the 2 smaller ones we killed.... they seemed to just keep crawling out from somewhere. The chef told the waiter that there was nothing wrong with the curry puffs, but we were asked if we wanted to order anything else which was nice... but unless they spray the place, I don't think we will be back. Note: this restaurant has recently been renovated and looks a lot better, I will have to give the new look a try - keep you posted Yelpers.

I am super delighted Em & Co has opened up in Oxley. I drive past it all the time on the way to…read morework and noticed they've just opened in the last couple of months. The bright neon sign lured me in! So many reasons why this place has been a welcomed addition to the Oxley Station Rd strip of cafes. Firstly, their food - omg, yum. It's like, Asian fusion, bit healthy and they do the best Dragon Bowls (an Asian styled salad bowl with shiitake mushrooms, a spring roll, crumbed beetroot and other salad-like goodies!). Also, thankfully they've added BubbleTea recently to their menus. I am bit over the juice bars lately, so this is fantastic option to have. It can be milky, or just clear tea, iced and with plenty of additions available such as pearls, lychees etc. Also, the service is phenomenal! I met the girls who run the place and they are the nicest. They also helped me decide on what to get with their brilliant suggestions. Can't wait to come back in the new year and see if they've added some other delicious items to their menu!