Tasting China Jǐn Shàng - Canberra

Visiting Canberra is not the most exciting thing in the world. However good food can turn this around. Tasting China was an asian restaurant that made me not miss Melbourne very much. <br/ <br/ The fried rice and chicken was made to perfection and I was tempted to see if the restaurant had won any 'chef hat ' awards...it was that good. The spring rolls dissolved in the mouth. While the dishes were slightly expensive the service was great and the food was delivered in a timely manner. They must have predicted our Melbourne appetites!<br/ <br/ If you are visiting Canberra and looking for some delicious Chinese food, Tasting China is definitely your answer!

Very good standard (food and service) for Canberra.But you can give all the dumplings in entree menu a miss. None of these are up to standard. BTW there is no restaurant in Canberra serves good enough dumpling, yes forget about Dumpling Place or Dickson Dumpling House etc! None of these would come near Din Tai Fung in Sydney (Gold Standard for Dumpling).

In Canberra for the weekend and my friend took us here as we felt the need to have some Chinese food. It was delicious. Chinese food made modern. And we will definitely be returning to try everything else on the menu. <br/ <br/ We did book the morning before we went in for dinner. The restaurant is decorated with cartoon paintings on the walls. The furniture looked like it was straight from China, in a good way. It took you to China. And as did the food. <br/ <br/ We had tea ofc, even the tea was presented beautifully in a glass pot. We ordered:<br/ <br/ Sea scallops w/ sugar snap peas. It was delicious, the scallops were not overdone. The sesame oil and ginger sauce gave it a very nice taste. <br/ <br/ Steamed John Dory shanghai style (a seriously secret recipe). This was delicious! I was expecting s while fish but if you knew what a John Dory looked like, you'll want the fillets. These fillets melted in your mouth. And that sauce, my goodness! It's to die for. They need to sell it by the bottle!!! That secret recipe!!!<br/ <br/ Sichuan beef in hot chilli oil. The numbing pepper gave it a weird sensation in your mouth, was not a fan. <br/ <br/ Peking shredded pork with pancakes. Kinda like Peking duck but with pork. It was average. I think I prefer the duck. <br/ <br/ Ling fish and mushroom soup. It was very delicious and very warming as Canberra was a cold 4 degrees that night. <br/ <br/ Sweet corn and salted duck egg yolk! I have never seen this before. And I love corn and salty egg so I had to try it, it did not disappoint! Very tasty!<br/ <br/ Delightful food, great service, see you next time and we can't wait!

Food here is excellent. Good flavours and excellent service. I have to say the food is not very traditional and quite westernised, like all Fine-dining Asian restaurants.

SOOOOOOOOOO FREAKIN GOOD!!!!!!Strongly recommend the wagyu beef!!!!!Great service and great food, what more could you possibly ask for?Such a relaxing environment too