A messy Sunday...

As Melbourne settles in for the long weekend (for us lucky ones) what better way to spend a Spring's, Sunday afternoon than enjoying yum cha inspired dishes accompanied by a cold cider.

This perfect combination for a Sunday sesh can be found on Sydney Road at the Brunswick Mess Hall. Here you can enjoy the small courtyard-setting seating areas for an intimate affair or high tables in the hall itself to get in the mix of it all - either way you can't go wrong with delicious food being served to you from the Lucky Panda Kitchen!

On Sunday's they have a lunch special where you can enjoy yum cha style meals with a twist, accompanied by a cold bev... just to make your lazy afternoon complete.

With your choice of ticking away at the menu or just going for the banquet, our hungry appetites called for the banquet option - giving us a taste of everything.

Each dish was delicately placed on our tasting plates and certainly packed with flavour, but I think my favourite for the afternoon would have to be a tie between the duck pancakes and the delicious meatballs served on a sweet pineapple wedge! My advice - take a bite through the whole serve to experience the complete flavour combination and don't leave that pineapple alone on the plate!

 

Just when we thought our bellies could not fit in one more bite... there was still the final sweet element to finish off the meal. For dessert was a sweet dumpling in ginger syrup with an element of surprise - the filling could be either red bean or lotus seed. Nobody knows until you take that first bite...

And just to ease your curiousity, turns out mine was red bean!

I am definitely looking forward to more catch ups with friends and chats with the friendly staff at this establishment who were keen to laugh along to our silly Sunday ranting!