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Feast fit to welcome Year of the Tiger
WITH the year of the tiger looming on the horizon the neon lights of China Town are inviting us to paint the town red.
New year is the most important event in the Chinese calendar and what better way to celebrate than with a slap up meal on Stowell Street.
My boyfriend, Graham, and I headed for Mangos dim sum and Cantonese restaurant which is one of the street's most well thought of eateries.
This simple but beautiful little place is tucked between the all-you-can eat buffets and the more formal palace-style restaurants and it offers something unbeatable.
It's popular with local Chinese people, which I always consider to be a good sign, and it lists all the Western favourites alongside more traditional and lesser known dishes.
We did the same thing we always do when we go for a Chinese meal. We um and ah over the menu for about 20 minutes then order the same thing we always do.
So we got the Mangos hor d'oeuvres, a mixture of starters for 12, followed by crispy chilli beef in a Cantonese sauce, 5.95, and chicken in a black bean sauce, 6.95.
The starters' ribs, wontons, the biggest deep fried prawns I have ever seen, prawn toast, curry parcels and chicken satay, left us more than satisfied.
The other dishes were our usual order but without a doubt the best we have ever tasted. Even the steamed rice seem better than usual. We absolutely loved it.
After seeing the other dishes that rolled out of the kitchen I regretted not being more adventurous.
There was a great selection of banquets, starting at 12.95 a head, which offered soup, a selection of six starters, three mains, and rice.
You can even try the dim sum menu between 11am and 5pm and from 11pm to 1am, which is like Chinese tapas which you keep on ordering until you are full.
Each dish costs about 3 and there are mouth-watering dishes like spare ribs or prawn and spinach dumplings, and truely terrifying dishes such as deep fried tripe or chickens feet.
If you have the guts to give it a shot it's a great way to spend a few hours with family or friends for an eating experience you will never forget.
Mangos will be blessed by the dancing dragon in the New Year celebrations in Newcastle's China Town on February 14. The restaurant is also offering a special Valentine's menu.
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