257 Home Kitchen

I actually hardly come to Eastwood, so didn't know this restaurant existed. Came here with relatives for some Shanghainese food. This place is well lit, clean with modern decor, and staff were quite attentive. Not gonna lie, I don't really eat Chinese food out since I feel like places aren't really clean, in terms of food/table stuff.

food spread

names of stuff we ordered

didn't have heaps of soup, but decent bit of meat inside and skin was quite thin

love a pan fried bun with a crunchy base

I found it was really cool how they just get a live fish then add some batter and deep fry it, so that the skin ends up 'popping out' and can pull a part out and have deep fried fish. The sweet and sour sauce went really well with it. Would recommend, even though it's turning something healthy into not healthy at all...

Dishes in general were quite nice, well portioned, not overly salty and decently priced.

Taste of Shanghai

We were planning to have dinner that night at another restaurant, but with a potential 1hr wait time, and only 20min for this place and everyone hungry, we decided to go with the shorter wait time. The first time I went to the Eastwood branch was years ago when it first opened. Decided the noodles were way too oily, so haven't been back since. I think they've added more flavour without it being too salty/artificial/oily. You mark down what you want on a piece of paper then hand it to them. A lot of yum cha in HK is like that as well.

Mixed veg noodle soup-$9.80

Choy sum w/ mushroom-$14.80

Steamed vegetable dumplings-$8.80

xiao long bao-$10.80

pan fried pork bun-$10.80

pan fried noodle w/ shrimp and pork-$14.80

grilled onion pancake-$7.80

Also got a seafood stir fried noodle (not pictured). Food was pretty good, I guess the pork inside the dumplings could have been more, with more soup and even thinner skin, but the veggie dumplings were surprisingly delicious. Ended up paying around $15 each. They also allow you to bring cakes in (some place don't allow it) and tables are a good size for multiple plates of food.