Chairman Mao

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• Chairman Mao

  smhRestaurants

  Tuesday, September 22, 2009

  Celebrate the anniversary of the People's Revolution at this popular antithesis of the fine diner.

  It's not the Chairman Mao portraits on the orange walls that turn me on at this Kensington regional Chinese, nor is it the generously large portions and generously small prices. It isn't even the fact that Rockpool's spice-loving Neil Perry has been spotted here once or twice. Nope, it's the box of tissues on every table. If your nose doesn't start running halfway through a Hunanese meal, there's something wrong, either with the meal or your nose. Hunan food is spicy, salty and oily, built on chilli, garlic, ginger, spice, black rice vinegar and more chilli, so the tissues mean instant cred. But first, a word. You know how Perry gave China's regional cuisines a makeover and sent them out into a nightclub basement space with a 100-strong wine list, swish service and loads of glam at Spice Temple? Well, this is nothing like that. Chairman Mao just has a door. You have to slide it open yourself. There is no cocktail bar, no private room, no anticipatory floor staff, no Riedel ...

  Source: Sydney Morning Herald

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• Chairman Mao Chinese Restaurant

  smhRestaurants

  Tuesday, June 09, 2009

  Flavours from the Hunan province grace the Great Helmsman's table.

  WHETHER you regard Mao Zedong as a tyrant or saviour, he has his place in history. He also has his moniker on this restaurant, which showcases food from his native Hunan province in China whose salty, spicy cuisine he always favoured. Mao satisfied his yen for red-braised pork and home-style bean curd by hauling around a personal chef. In Sydney, we only have two Hunan restaurants, one in Burwood called Sydney Xiang Chinese Restaurant and this newer one in Kensington called, not surprisingly, Chairman Mao Chinese Restaurant. I figure the newbie is the perfect place to farewell an Australian friend who loves anything uncommon. And Chairman Mao delivers on all fronts. After you slide open the darkly tinted glass doors, you are almost blinded by the bright orange walls. A cascade of fake garlic, chillies and onions hangs off a decorated screen. They are a tell-tale signifier of the flavours we will encounter.

  Source: Sydney Morning Herald

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  Full review on Sydney Morning Herald

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