Cheung Sing BBQ House was one of the further stops out on my Anzac Parade Eating tour, in that it was in Maroubra and just one suburb away from most of the places we’d eaten at. Before dining here tonight, of course I did my research and googled it to see what dishes would be most popular. What I was surprised to find was a SMH review made only weeks prior about it describing it in most postitive terms. Not quite a Hong Kong BBQ house, it has touches of Vietnam in the food too with Pho and vermicelli rice noodle salads. In her review Helen Greenwood, the woman with the job that every foodie wants, says “Cheung Sing is good. Sometimes a little like globalisation gone rampant, but honest - not tourist.” and then comments that the quality of the food is commensurate with the many asian faces seen in the restaurant. What a difference one review makes. Tonight, it’s full and contrary to her finding, everyone isn’t asian, in fact it is about 99% caucasian. Truly a testament to the power of a good review in the SMH. I can only guess that they’re devoted SMH readers and foodies turned onto this brightly lit not so little suburban BBQ house.
I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve studied the menu already (I wonder if I am the only one that does that?) and whilst I had an idea what I wanted, I spy a fabulously large plate of meat being brought to the man at the table next to us. As I am blind without my contacts I ask my husband what is under the pile of roast duck. He whispers back “I think it’s pork!” to which I think he must be crazy as that would be an enormous pile of meat. I am so intrigued I ask the gentleman next to us and he explains that it’s a special order, not on the menu, a serve of BBQ Pork and Duck “It’s excellent and only about $15.80″ he grins broadly, knowing full well that he has the best meal in the house.
I umm and ahhh over this, whether to get one of those plates with some rice and greens but the greedy food blogger inside me wins and I opt for a selection of dishes. We order the curry puffs $4 for 4, Mixed BBQ grill with noodle soup $9 (we choose BBQ Pork and Roast Duck) and a Lemongrass chicken with tomato rice $9. The woman serving looks to be the owner and she is very friendly.
Curry Puffs $4 for 4
Our curry puffs come out first, the filling very hot but the outer less so. It is filled with mince beef, potato and vegetables and it good in the way that only deep fried pastry stuffed with mince can be. Damn the healthy eating regime for these! Oh and I’ve also managed to topple over my small melamine bowl several times with the heavy silver spoon.
Mixed BBQ with noodle soup $9
Soon after the small oval plate of BBQ meat arrives, with 4 pieces of the Roast Duck resting atop the BBQ Pork. A large bowl of egg noodles with chinese greens topped with fried onions accompanies this. I often complain about the soup at places, in that it is too mild but this is great, just the correct saltiness and flavour for me. Before you know it I’ve slurped most of the soup.
The accompanying BBQ pork is lovely, nice and fatty (I don’t like the lean cuts) but the piece de resistance is the Roast Duck, so soft and tender with the strong aroma of star anise. As I am eating my share I keep declaring “We MUST get more, we MUST!”.
Lemongrass chicken with tomato rice $9
The large square plate of stir fried Lemongrass chicken arrives on top a pile of tomato rice. The chicken is very strong in Lemongrass and ginger which pleases my husband to no end. He is definitely in raptures over this dish which I also like. The tomato rice is a bit of a miss and whilst I adored the tomato rice at Dong Dong Noodles, I can easily leave this behind.
We look up and realise that the front area of the restaurant is packed-with eager wannabe diners and those taking away to eat in the comfort of their own home.
Cheung Sing BBQ House
695 Anzac Parade Maroubra NSW 2035
Tel: +61 (02) 9349 3362
Open 6 days (Closed Mondays)
Tuesday-Wednesday & Sunday 11am-9pm
Thursday-Saturday 11am-10pm
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lorraine, i think you’ve covered way more asian restaurants than i have [-: you make me feel like eating duck right now & it’s my least fav meat
how’s tokyo?
Hi NQN,
Just wanted to let you know that I also read the menu before I go to a restaurant (if I can find it online). It harks back to the days when I was an extremely fussy eater, and I would worry about whether there’d be anything on the menu that I’d like. I’m much much better these days, but still like to pre-read the menu!
I must say I am not very impressed with the food of this restaurant.
Being a Maroubra resident, I have only been to this place for a couple of times. It was when it just opened. I saw queue on their opening day so i thought i should check out.
I try not to be subjective with my comment because food comes first when i critique.
Partner ordered wonton noodle soup and I order the chicken noodle soup. We also shared BBQ pork + roast duck combination.
Only to our disappointment that the food was rather average. The roast duck was really chewy and lacking favour. The BBQ pork was rather average too, couldn’t taste the char favour one usually get from the Chinese BBQ restaurant in chinatown.
The wonton was also very ordinary. I guess it’s difficult to find “authentic” wonton ingredients in Australia.
The chicken noodle soup was good, just like what you would expect from a vietnamese pho restaurant.
THe portion was really generous. We couldn’t finish what we ordered.
The place is quite clean and there is big plasma screen so you wont miss the tv show.
Ok, now this post has me excited! It’s a half hour walk from upper campus at UNSW but I think I’ll convince the boy to accompany me!
As for perusing menus well in advance, I’m dead guilty. I do it at every opportunity I get. Speaking of which, I’m trying Din Tai Fung on Tuesday after reading your post about it.
It’s truly lovely to live in the same city as your favourite food blogger as it means you get to actually sample a lot of the tasty foods you read about!
Hope you’re doing well and enjoying your holiday!
curry puffs? lemongrass chicken? when i die, i want to be reincarnated as you.
I musn’t eat out enough at Asian places because I’ve never come across tomato rice and this is the second time I’ve read about it here at NQN. It sounds delicious.. but I take your word for it that this version wasn’t anything to write home about.. oh well. The meat looked tasty!
Hi tian-I definitely eat out enough and as we were house sitting at the time, we thought we’d take advantage of the excellent eateries on Anzac Pde
You don’t like duck? Wow, I wish I didn’t! I love it too much.
Tokyo is amazing! I’ll start my stories on it very soon
Hi GG-I’m so glad that I’m not the only one! I really like it when places have their menus online (and up to date ones at that). Makes planning the meal much easier!
Hi Bubble-We found it quite good. Perhaps the food has improved? I do like it that the servings are quite generous.
Hi M-You’ll be well and truly hungry for food once you walk. It might be more than half an hour though, unless you walk much faster than I do (which is likely).
I’m glad to know that I’m not alone. My husband is used to me collecting menus and reading them in bed
Aww thanks so much!
The holiday is going great, I’ll start posting about it very soon! 
Hi grace-Do you get much of that sort of stuff where you live? I admit I got crazy over a good curry puff
Hi Maria-I had seen it but never ordered it until recently. This tomato rice was pretty boring and unlike the tomato rice at Dong Dong which was so good!
If you like tomato rice, you must go to Red Lantern in Surry Hills. They do the best chicken and tomato rice in the world (well, at least in Sydney ;). Not to mention all the other yummy bits.
But - tonight for me it’s off to Cheung Sing. A bit futher than we usually go (Dong Dong is really the furthest I’ve been in a while), but am looking forward to the change.
I have to stop reading your blog, I’m running out of nights to try all the places you review!
Hi kaydee-I have tried to get there but they’re often booked out so I will need to get my act together and book ahead of time! Thanks for the rec
What did you think of Cheung Sing? I’d love to hear! hehe there’s never enough nights to eat the food out there
Cheung Sing the other night was fantastic. There were 4 of us and we all walked away with enough leftovers for lunch the next day! The staff were a bit odd, some were really helpful and some weren’t, but they were mostly ok to modify things to my non-chili needs. We had the duck/pork plate and both were the best I have ever tasted (although I went to Billy Kwong’s last night and their duck is pretty good too
. Ditto for the curry puffs! We unanimously voted on it as a replacement for the Dong Dong, even though it is a little further than we would usually go.
Yum, thanks for rec & review!
Hi kaydee-Excellent to hear! I always worry that when I have a good experience somewhere that someone else might not. But it seems pretty consistent there for food.
Yeah I think some are definitely more helpful than others. The older lady is nice as is the older man, perhaps they are the owners.
I’ve only been to Billy Kwong’s once and it was such a palava getting a table I’ve been put off going back. Pity as the food was great!
Thanks for letting me know what you thought and you’re more than welcome
hey, NQN. i love all ur posts. they’re great!
and yes, i love cheung sing. i know one of the lady over there and they always have the best services out of all chinese restaurant that i know
u should try the peking duck next time. its very unlike the regular peking duck which only consist of the crispy skin. there’s a quite thick piece of meat too, which i LOVE of course
i haven’t really try the curry puff, but i will definitely try it on my next visit
PS: there’s one shop at UNSW that sells really good curry puff
Hi angel-Thanks so much!
Thanks for the recommendation. I’m one of those people that prefer the Peking Duck pancakes with just skin though and less meat. I like the crispiness of the skin in the pancake-although I never say no to Peking Duck in any way, shape or form 
That’s Satay Delight isn’t it? I wrote a story on it here. It’s great I agree!
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