Mook Ji Bar - CBD

Located at 406 Lonsdale St in CBD, this bar always seems to have long queues. My wife had previously been to Mook Ji a few weeks earlier with some of her girlfriends and was raving about the fried chicken. One day after work my wife and I and her cousin decided to have dinner at Mook Ji’s (had to give it a go, supposedly the fried chicken is better than the colonel’s 11 herbs and spices). So we joined the queue and 15mins later we were seated. We were seated next to the large 25kg rice and flour bags (obviously storage space was at a premium here). Anyway we managed to flag down a waitress to take our orders, fried chicken, pork belly and calamari, seafood pancake and lamb soup (can’t remember the proper name). 10mins our pork belly and calamari arrived, followed by the lamb soup, however we soon discovered that we were running out of table space. The tables were a bit on the smaller side, we quickly gobbled down the pork belly and calamari just in time for the seafood pancake. We only managed to finish half the pancake when the fried chicken arrived. With no space on the table we put the chicken on the pancake plate.

Fried chicken 3/5 – Very crunchy, tasty, definitely better than KFC thou not the much meat on the chicken, which was disappointing.

Pork belly and calamari 4/5 – The best dish of the lot, spicy, tasty, lots of flavour and smelt great

Seafood pancake 3/5 – Crunchy, not so much flavour, I ended up mixing in the sauce from the pork belly to give it a bit of hmpf, but still tasted good.

Lamb soup 1/5 (No pic) – Not sure what to make of this one, lacked flavour

Service: 2.5/5 – Only two waitress on the floor for the peak period, they really needed a third person to help (maybe a kitchen hand out to the front?).

Cost: Reasonable, you'd be looking on average between $15-20 for mains and $30+ for stews

Pros:

Great tasting food (except for the lamb)

Good size portions

Cons:

You may have to wait for a table

The tables are quite small

Would I go back? Yes