Madame Wu | 71 Eagle Street, BRISBANE CBD QLD 4000
So
the new cool kid on the Riverside Block has moved in and her name is
Madam Wu. Occupying the old space where Sienna was located, the
brightly lit neon lights beamed out of this new restaurant’s
terrace and often caught my from our unit (as if beckoning me to eat
there).
And
so I did (not needing to much persuasion). On the final night of my
dad’s recent trip to Australia, myself and the other travel bunnie
decided that Madam Mu’s would be the location for our going away
diner last Friday night.
The
4.1 of us arrived at the reception and immediately I was stunned at
the cool renovation this previously boring space had gone through.
Think night club, meets sleek modern dining, meets earthy Asian tones
all whilst having a open air view of the Brisbane River. We were
shown to our table which provided ample room for Mini-bun George’s
pram to be snuck in next to one end of the table. Our waiter for the
night was a well informed young guy who went out of his way to ensure
that we were taken care of all night. We started off with some drinks
(the obligatory Tsingtao for dad and the other bunnie) while I
decided to venture into a Virgin
Lychee Mojito
($10) which was refreshing and delicious. Drinks came with
complimentary spiced beans (which helped the boys to make the beer go
down quicker) and then the table was treated to a show of what I like
to call napkin trees (curled up moistened towels that are sprinkled
in water by our waiter to then sprout up before eyes). Très
cool! We then proceeded to order a number of dishes from the various
sections of the menu that came out throughout the night to keep us
all eating for at least an hour. The dishes included pan
fried scallop dumplings, verjus butter, black tobiko ($20),
tang
sui chicken ribs ($12),
piju
ju snapper guilin style in tsingtao beer ($35),
tea
salted duck stir fried w' mushrooms & black vinegar ($35),
roasted
pork belly, coriander, peanut, chilli, fish flavoured dressing ($32)
and snow
peas & sugar snaps w' horseradish ($12)
with some steamed
rice
($3 pp) for the table.
I
think the highlight was the duck given the interesting take on its
presentation and strong gamey flavour but I have to say at the
copious amount of melted butter that was drizzled over the scallops
was also a BIG highlight. I was the only one game to order a dessert
(the steamed
chocolate bun w' green tea ice cream ($13)),
but I can’t say that it was all that impressive.
The
food portions were generous, the service was friendly and quick, and
the setting was magnificent (save as for the fact that the Friday
night DJ was playing his house beats just a little too loudly for
Minibun to be completely asleep). The cool new kid has
definitely earned her place but for how long is another question with
the mix on Asian fusion being a hard cuisine to keep customers coming
back for more.
Total
bunnie dollars spent: $198.00
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