I am always keen to go out late at night to have dessert and when they mentioned this place i was quite excited to check it out. My expectations was quite ampped up even more when my work colleges said this place is a contender or even better than the asian dessertery L.N.C in Chinatown. The only problem was it was actually quite hard to find. I drove past it a few times before we decided to actually get out of the car and walk to see if we could find this place. It's called W.D.Z Restaurant but i don't think anyone knows of it by it's English name! lol
When we walked in we noticed that inside the decor was actually quite cute and homelike. These balls hanging from the ceiling, only held there by string and sticky tape, the silhouettes of cherry blossoms, swallows, snowflakes that they obviously cut out of cardboard themselves (very talented!) and also the bansai trees scattered all along the side of the shop. After that me and Nat got worried as we noticed parts of their dining menu plastered around the room all in Chinese!
It was ok though, one of the waitresses could speak very good english and their menus had english translations on it too, i was quite relieved. Their menu also featured a lot of traditional chinese dinner dishes, from snacks to even hotpots.
When we sat down we were greeted with complementary tea with these cute little cups! Surprisingly these cups were chilled.
We got the 'Chestnut and taro sago with coconut milk' hot because we added black sesame glutenous balls with it. And we also got the 'Rainbow'.The Chestnut and taro sago is the on pictured on top, quite nice hot. It was sufficiently sweet but no where near the 'Too Sweet' zone which i really liked. Sesame balls were good also, and the chestnuts were crushed so it was pretty cool to have the taro,sago and chestnut in a even quantities when you eat it.
The Rainbow (which wasn't very rainbow at all) had herbal jelly, glutinous rice balls, taro and coconut juice with ice shavings. This was a cold dessert, the ice shavings was quite fun to eat, and you could mix it up with all the things in the bowl. This dish is quite similar to the Malaysian 'Ais kacang' and just like the ais kacang, the odd combination of ingredients actually make for a pretty good dessert. Although I'm not a fan of the rice balls and these ones in particular tasted a lot more like flour, so that part was my least favorite. I just looked at the menu now and it's supposed to come with mango but ours lacked that, i wish she had at lest mentioned it to us.
The place was not the best but defiantly a cheap gem, if i was in the mood for chinese desserts and did not feel like trekking out to Chinatown, i would definitely head out here again.
The place is located on Beamish street, Campsie. Not too sure on the shop number but it is loacated on the north end just before you hit the first roundabout.
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