Owned by the Little Singapore group, they have added Little Nyonya to the list of restaurants in Brisbane. Not many people are familiar with Nyonya food, but to give you an idea, it's a mix between chinese and malay and the techniques used to cook the food go back to ancient China. Let's not go into that.
My family are from Malaysia and we are from chinese descent meaning only one thing. They are highly critical of authentic Malaysian and Singaporean food. They are also very critical of Nyonya food, and as word spreads far and wide in the asian community, thank goodness the reviews from this place were good when we ate there.
The staff are very professional, the restaurant is decorated to represent a little eatery in olden China, I quite liked it, but my pram pretty much bumped into everything on the way to the table, so I kind of felt bad. They did the typical asian restaurant thing, fit as many tables and chairs into a small space as possible. Not sure what this means for the chi of the place.
We ordered the 'Wat Dan Ho' a wet version of the 'Chow Kuey Teow' and a Salty Plum Spare Rib (me and my ribs gung ho it was!), the Nyonya Kapitan Curry Chicken and a plate that isn't on the menu. It is the typical dish chinese usually order to celebrate a huge birthday, a wedding or the first month of the life of your baby. So the c'est la important dish - it is a cold cuts dish with jellyfish, barbeque pork, cold boiled salted chicken and some other tidbits. I have to say I give all the dishes a 3.5/5 because they were all pretty consistent with what we were used to eating prior to coming here... none of them in particular stood out, but my family and I are pretty hard markers. I think Little Singapore still trumps Little Nyonya, but it's worth a try, the dishes to the non critical people would probably taste pretty damn yummy. read more