Gourmet House Chinese Restaurant

Very authentic vibes!
As a Singaporean, this place gave me a very homely vibe!
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I’ve travelled the world for more than 40 years and this has to be one of the worst Chinese meals I’ve tasted. Bland! None of the staff asked if everything was ok? They weren’t interested.
If there were other Chinese in the area you wouldn’t do much trade! Thank goodness we have fabulous restaurants in portnoalunga and Christie’s beach.

I felt really lucky to get lunch in a Chinese restaurant here. It's a cold, miserable rainy Saturday, wet roads outside. When I walked in, they are just opened: fire is lit, hot tea is served，love the spicy chicken stirfry, and the shrimp cracker. The owners are nice and friendly, the food is awesome, I am walking out with a big smile on my face. The Gourmet house is about 10m from the main Hahndorf street. There are plenty of parking at the back, but they only open for lunch at the weekend and dinners.

2 weeks ago, Very dissapointed with our meals, 6 of us and not a descent meal between us, special fried rice had chicken in it instead of prawns and was tasteless, battered chicken dishes the batter wasn't cooked through, garlic cream prawns, was gluggy and not creamy overall, won't be returning, not impressed

Only had takeaway very fresh good size servings chicken spring rolls delicious and satay prawns I'll be back

Delicious, authentic Chinese cuisine with excellent service. I highly recommend the sizzling black pepper beef - the sizzling hot plate at your table is a sight to behold!

Absolutely dreadful! I'm well traveled and have much experience in Chinese cuisine. There is something very wrong when you are served squid with fried corn chips to pad it out and special fried rice with not much in it but grated carrot. I don't believe that the owners themselves would eat the food that they prepare for customers
Absolutely dreadful! Don't deserve a one star!
E Barclay
Hahndorf

The Crispy beef with Satay sauce was to die for, exactly what you hope to receive as a special Chinese meal and the king prawns in garlic was nearly as good, very large serves, good value!

Extremely disappointing. The omelette was exceptionally salty and rather oily. There were only around 4 or maybe 5 prawns, and you had to use a knife to cut the egg! Heaps of carrot, a lot of cabbage, some spinach, and very little of anything else.

Very nice service and food is amazing.
Recommend to try the crispy beef with satay sauce. Will visit again.

This is a followup from my previous review circa December 2020. Since then we have been again in 2021 and again tonight in 2022. We were originally nervous about returning to Gourmet House after reading some recent negative reviews. We decided to go regardless and we were not disappointed. The food was excellent, staff were professional and food was prompt. We were worried about waiting times after reading the previous reviews, but they were very fair (see below)

-Times taken since ordering-
Entree chicken spring rolls - 7m 25s
Fried rice - 12m 13s
Mongolian beef - 14m 52s
Lemon chicken 15m 33s

As you can see, about 15 minutes after walking in, we were already enjoying all of the food we ordered. This time is even faster than some supposed "fast food" experiences I have had in the past.

On the way in we had a pleasent conversation about the traffic with the staff. They gave us the option to pick our seat as there were several vacant tables. But I dont know why the reasturant wasnt packed after we left our last glowing review. We picked the window seat.

The table service was prompt and professional. It was accompanied by delectible complimentary prawn chips. These looked so good that I couldnt resist eating them despite the fact that I am allergic to prawns. I was not disappointed. These prawn chips were so tasty that they were worth having the allergic reaction later on.

I tried dipping a prawn chip in the spring roll dipping sauce and was very pleased with the taste. I would recommend you do the same when you go, but you will need to get your own prawn chips and sauce as we ate all of ours.

The main courses were of course the main attraction. The mongolian beef had us sizzling to our hearts content. The lemon chicken was easy to chew, which is why we left this review. I was relieved that the lemon chicken wasnt sour like a normal lemon, since I was worried it would be sour like a normal lemon.

The chair upgrades and dividers were a nice touch. The vibe increased by at least 15% due to these enhancements. I believe they were introduced some time between 2021 and 2022 given we last attended in 2021.

The gourmet house will always hold a special place in our hearts and it was so meaningful that me and my partner included a section about it in our original song that we've written about the dorf. We hope to have the song completed by mid 2025 so please watch this space for updates.

We will definitely be back again, probably next time we are in hahndorf and feel like eating at Gourmet House.

- Jake

Horrendous experience all round. Staff openly fighting with eachother, then we were seated without menus for around half an hour, eventually menus came and we ordered drinks. Drinks took an hour to arrive (a long wait for adults let alone two four year old children), then the food another hour after that. Staff were rude, didn't bother to give us plates for dinner so we re-used the entree plates. Food was inedible and none of the meals came out together. Fried rice was yellow, gluggy, no flavour, nothing like the photo on the menu. Noodles were undercooked/doughy flavourless and like 3 pieces of meat. 2.5hours for terrible food. Wish we had gone to any of the other amazing restaurants in handorf. Couldn't have picked a worse place to eat.

Our experience here was awful! Waiting
over an hour for drinks and entre, overhearing staff talking about us and conflict between staff. Fried rice was nothing like the photos and tasted awful, yellow and gluggy. Noodles were doughy and only a few pieces of beef in a noodle dish, filled with grated carrot and onion. Dim sims and dumplings were good. I dont mind waiting over an hour for drinks if its good food but will not be returning as it ruined out night. Left feeling frustrated and dissapointed.

We were very disappointed with meals other than lemon chicken which was very nice. Hokien noodles with prawns came out with 2 prawns. Informed additional prawns would cost $1 each.
Special fried rice had no shrimp or pork, chicken only. Lovely waiter Layla.

I requested a vegan meal (nothing on the menu) of rice noodles, vegetables and whatever sauce didn't have fish/oyster sauce. They added egg. My husband had the fish and was up early and often to get it out.
Despite the lovely, attentive and apologetic front of house staff, the cook screaming at them from the kitchen had the most influence on our night out.

Fantastic restaurant just off busy main street in Hahndorf if you're looking for a quite reprieve. Chicken and prawn dumplings and chicken in black bean sauce was great. The host looked after us well; good conversationalist and checked on us regularly.

Took about 25 min for noodles to come. Waiter was very apologetic, when the food came, it was just noodles and 3 pieces of chicken, not well cooked

Went to this awesome place for lunch. Had 2 fried rice and 2 stir fries. The Scezuan spicy chicken was out of the world. Seriously guys this is such an awesome place. Excellent Flavours, fresh and great quantity too.

Focus on the food. Other places have better decor but not better food. Huge value for money and delicious.

Classic Chinese restaurant with good food and good service. My favorite Chinese restaurant in the hill. Went there with 9 other friends and had a banquet, the size was large and was at a reasonable price. Highly recommend Mongolian beef, honey chicken and salt and pepper squid. Will definitely come back.