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Written on Tea
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Restaurant
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Hobart
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Open:
Lunch and dinner daily
Price:
Low
Score (/20):
14
Reviewed By
Sue Dyson and Roger McShane
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Phone Number:
+61 3 6223 3298
Address:
Shop 6, 236 Sandy Bay Rd
Sandy Bay, Tasmania, 7005
Country:
Australia
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Written on Tea in the Hobart suburb of Sandy Bay is our restaurant of choice when we want an informal meal in Hobart. There are five or six dishes that we are addicted to and order every time we go here (which is often). The food at Written On Tea is quietly satisfying, especially if you dine with a group and can fill the table with many dishes. We always order the xiao long bao (the addictive soup-filled dumplings that we learned to love when we visited Shanghai), silky pan-fried pork and Chinese chive dumplings, wonderful dry-fried green beans with a spicy pork sauce, cooling pickled cucumber, plates of soya chicken and Cantonese-style roast duck, pork cooked with preserved vegetables, and delicious fried rice that sits outside the boundaries defined by Australian-Chinese restaurants (no egg or prawns in sight!).On a recent visit we tried an intriguing 'sweet and sour' potato dish. This dish had everyone at the table debating its construction. The potato was cut into thin strips as was the onion. Chilli pieces abounded. Sichuan peppercorns were dotted though the dish providing a numbing effect on the palate. A sour lingering flavour haunted us. This was beautiful food. We visit again and again and always leave with a deep feeling of satisfaction, especially now that there is a chef fromm the northern city of Harbin in residence cooking the most delightful dishes including our long-cherished spring onion pancakes.
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