Comments on: Billy Kwong, Surry Hills

By: Bar H, Surry Hills @ Not Quite Nigella

Bar H, Surry Hills @ Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:00:16 +0000

[...] and mains. Chef Hamish Ingham is behind the counter and we are directly facing him. Formerly with Kylie Kwong at Billy Kwong, the menu has an Asian influence to it (and the tables and stools are tiny, much like those at [...]

By: The World’s Best Chef Chef Rene Redzepi, The Opera House, Sydney @Not Quite Nigella

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:01:43 +0000

[...] decide to go to the bathroom. Kylie Kwong, swings past me on her way out, this feels surreal – as I walk out again I glimpse Mark Best from [...]

By: Yl Chin

Yl Chin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:41:54 +0000

I agree, Kylie Kwang can’t cook authentic chinese food. Her style is more towards a fusion of western and so called Asian cooking in disguise. Her recipes and restaurant are catered for the western market, not Asian. Yes, she can’t fry rice. She doesn’t even use the chinese cleaver. I only watched 2 episodes and gave up. Hyped up, stereotyped and melodramatic.

By: Kylie can't cook

Kylie can't cook — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:57:49 +0000

Kylie Kwong can’t cook, simple as that. The kind of tricks she shows on the tv show is a disgrace to real authentic chinese food. Add a bit of sea salt, chinese wine, oyster sauce and bbq sauce and you are there. What a joke !!! She can’t even cook proper fried rice! Fried rice should be fried thus it should be DRY, not WET. If I want moist rice I will have steam rice. Funny she says she has seen many restaurant does not cook the rice properly and she is here to do show us how to do it nicely. I really cannot understand what is the fuss about her cooking skill.

By: Not Quite Nigella

Not Quite Nigella — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:01:44 +0000

Hi Nat-I must confess that I’ve never watched her tv show as I don’t have cable although I’ve heard similar things said!

By: Nat

Nat — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:44:25 +0000

I’ve always wanted to try Billy Kwong. However Kylie Kwong I have to admit rubs me up the wrong way! I’ve watched her show a couple of times and she seems very disrespective of Asian culture, talking about how it’s “eww so gross!” and wincing, I don’t know, it makes me uncomfortable, and I’m 5th generation Australian-Chinese myself…

I am very curious about her food though. I understand that she gives it a different spin so I’ll try it out, some day!

By: Not Quite Nigella

Not Quite Nigella — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:36:28 +0000

Hi gobsmack’d-Hmmm you know that’s true. I suppose if they make that point one way, they have to make the point the other way. Interesting and thanks for making that point!

Hi sydneyguyrojoe-Oh how cool! So glad that you liked it and I hope you both enjoy it

Hi ArtemisIII-yes I was so hoping the stools were replaced by now in my 10 year absence!

By: ArtemisIII

ArtemisIII — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:27:36 +0000

Yes, I would say the price is expensive for the food in such a place. But with the type of stools, they hurt my back, i wouldn’t go near a place like that.

By: sydneyguyrojoe

sydneyguyrojoe — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:08:15 +0000

Great review, i am going to take my friend from Melbourne when she comes and visits!! i’ll show her this and she’ll be even more excited!!

By: gobsmack'd

gobsmack'd — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:45:26 +0000

Hi NQN, I don’t quite understand people who insist that this is not quite the real thing because there’s no ‘Chinese chef in the kitchen’; nor do I understand the point that its ‘expensive for Chinese food’. I guess these same lot does not like Longrain for the same reason. However, would they quibble about Chui Lee Luk at Claude’s, or Tetsuya with his French techniques or Harunoki at Blancharu or Daniel Hong at Lotus? Somehow I doubt it. Far be it for me to call them hypocritical …