Wellington: Regal Chinese Restaurant

The day we flew out of Wellington, we had yum cha with my parents at Regal Chinese Restaurant. We’ve been to Regal a couple of times with mum and dad for yum cha – there’s always a good selection of food and my parents seem to like it.

There’s not much to say about yum cha that I haven’t said before so this post is light on words and heavy on photos.

Regal Chinese Restaurant

Fried taro dumpling (wu gok).

Regal Chinese Restaurant

Deep fried crescent dumplings (ham sui gok).

Regal Chinese Restaurant

Steamed BBQ pork buns. One day I’m going to try making these. From scratch (including the BBQ pork). I have made my own BBQ pork before, so I’m halfway there.

Regal Chinese Restaurant

Steamed pork dumplings (sui mai).

Regal Chinese Restaurant

I think these were pork and ginger dumplings.

Regal Chinese Restaurant

This looks like the more well known radish cake, but it’s actually taro cake. It’s made in a similar way to the radish cake but using taro. This was really good! I don’t see taro much in Australia, and eating this reminded me of how much I like it.

Speaking of radish cake, Mum used to make it when we were younger. We would eat it for breakfast with a chilli and garlic sauce. Radish cake is yet another thing I’m going to make one day.

Regal Chinese Restaurant

My favourite savoury dish – chicken and sticky rice wrapped in a lotus leaf (lou mai gai). Here’s a tip if you’re ever at yum cha: don’t let them cut the parcel open (they’ll want to, with their scissors). If it’s cut, you get leaf bits all in the rice. Unwrap it instead!

Regal Chinese Restaurant

One of these prawn dumplings (har gow) made a beautiful dive off my chopsticks and somersaulted its way under a chair.

Regal Chinese Restaurant

I think these were chive dumplings.

Regal Chinese Restaurant

Rice noodle rolls (cheong fun) – love ’em!

Regal Chinese Restaurant

A basket of chicken feet (fung jiao).

Regal Chinese Restaurant

And, as always, I refuse to leave until I’ve eaten an egg tart.

Regal Chinese Restaurant
7-9 Courtenay Place
Wellington
New Zealand
Phone: +64 4 384 6656