Reviews by TheUndercoverEater

This review is for Fongs Chinese Restuarant, Bentleigh East VIC

16 Oct 2015

Every neighbourhood needs a good local Choinese. Not Chinese.... Choinese. Serving all your local favourites from a bygone era. A time when the average family only had the choice of fish and chips, pizza, and the local Choinese.
Now the local Choinese always specialised in sweet and sour, lemon chicken, beef and black bean, chow mein, and special fried rice. But most importantly.... And this is still the case, the local Choinese is judged on their home made dim sims.
Now I recommend Fongs, but don't go in there expecting Neil Perry Asian fusion and spice. And certainly don't expect Peking duck, assorted dumplings, and the variety meat creations of Chinatown that momentarily transfer you to some small eatery in provincial Hunan or Szechuan... For this my culinary friends is Choinese... And Choinese consistently done in the family to a consistently good standard since the 1950's.
This is a family restaurant... Have a chat to co-owner Betty who will come and sit down and have a chat to the regular customers (50% of which receive the aged pension and bring in their $10 bottle of wolf blass) Betty's husband cooks and their children work front of house.

So in finishing, this ain't the Flower Drum, but this is good Choinese with some of the better dim sims I've ever had. So that has to count for something.
Score- 6.5/10. As good as Hop Sings....Ned Isakov says you wouldn't want to get blacklisted
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Approximate cost: $20