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$12 Eat All You Can DUMPLINGS! (Camy Shanghai Dumpling & Noodle, Chinatown, Melbourne)

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$12 Eat All You Can DUMPLINGS! (Camy Shanghai Dumpling & Noodle, Chinatown, Melbourne)
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abh_gup on 20/09/2011 - 16:10 weekendnotes.com (259 clicks)
Last edited 20/09/2011 - 16:38

Offer Menu -
http://www.weekendnotes.com/display-image/2/13144/camy-dumpl…

Info -
http://www.weekendnotes.com/camy-shanghai-dumpling-restauran…

Where -
Camy Shanghai Dumpling & Noodle, 23 Tattersalls Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000

Location -
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=23+Tattersalls+Lane,+Melbou…

PS -
the spinach dishes were pretty good.
maybe packed with heaps of people!
service ain't optimum during busy period so don't expect, and
yummy food, but watch out for the sounds, don't end up eating too much ;)

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  • jv on 20/09/2011 - 16:12
    +1

    They always sell these for $12, it's not a deal…

    but watch out for the sounds

    Oh my !!!

  • Kuro on 20/09/2011 - 16:16
    +2

    yeah $12 all you can eat is on everyday, and as a regular customer there, the dumplings taste different compared to the ones you order from the normal menu.

    $12 all you can eat - but its not really edible…

    • jv on 20/09/2011 - 16:20
      +7

      but its not really edible…

      Shanghai Street Dumpling on Little Bourke is much better and similar prices…

      • imaximax1 on 20/09/2011 - 16:39

        i really do love that place, PLUS u get a table (not share a table after 20 mins).

        on a friday night we waited for maybe 5 mins once.

  • SupeNintendoChalmers on 20/09/2011 - 16:21
    +8

    everything jv said.

    Shanghai Village Dumplings on little Bourke taste better and the meat is probably not of the feline variety.

    • voter1 on 20/09/2011 - 16:36
      +1

      lol, on a trip to china, I only found 1 restaurant offering feline and it was out in the middle of whoop whoop. dog however…..

      • caprimulgus on 20/09/2011 - 17:14
        +7

        you can eat dog and cat in heaps of places in vietnam…

        they both taste good.

        runs and hides from the negs!

        • arcticmonkey on 20/09/2011 - 18:06

          The less cats, the better.

  • Asterism on 20/09/2011 - 16:22
    +6

    Had this deal forever and the worst dumplings in the CBD, in fact the worst dumplings I've had anywhere in Melbourne. Fillings don't taste good and the skins are floury and way too thick. With the price of dumplings at most cheap places you won't pay much more than $12 each in a group to fill up anyway, and the food is way better.

  • ywpn on 20/09/2011 - 16:23
    +1

    $12 all you can eat dumplings sounds like a good deal until you feel so full that you have to throw up.
    Trap!

  • finance on 20/09/2011 - 16:33
    +1

    u can make at least 2kg of dumpling for $12 with nice mince!

    • BuyoTheCat on 20/09/2011 - 16:42

      Depends on how much you pay for your mince :p

  • ironpaw on 20/09/2011 - 16:33
    +1

    Isn't this the place that got in trouble with the Health department years ago?

    • ywpn on 20/09/2011 - 16:37

      yes…several times lol

  • [Deactivated] on 20/09/2011 - 16:37

    not a deal, always this price

    • mrderrickc on 20/09/2011 - 17:13

      exactly, always this price and the quality is crap.

  • ccrap on 20/09/2011 - 16:39
    +3

    is there a place like this in sydney - i want unlimited dumplings NAOW!!!

  • BuyoTheCat on 20/09/2011 - 16:41

    I've not been back for over 2 yrs. Their dumnplings taste like KFC then.

    • Asterism on 20/09/2011 - 18:01

      I went once about 4 years ago and they were so bad that I said I would not go there again, although some of my friends go there often. My friend had a birthday last year and wanted to go there, so I went along out of respect for her birthday; the food was still just as bad, and I'm pretty sure they had at least one change of ownership/chef etc with the multiple health scares. Definitely wouldn't go again.

  • Jakal on 20/09/2011 - 16:47

    Also these were the guys who got done for importing chefs from china, paying them $5 an hour and making them work 12 hour shifts basically non-stop.

  • engmeng on 20/09/2011 - 18:08
    -1

    THIS PLACE IS HORRIBLE DONT GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TASTE LIKE ARSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEee

    • dealhunt on 20/09/2011 - 18:12

      lol

    • ccrap on 20/09/2011 - 20:37
      +1

      Given that in order to have made the comparison, you know what arse tastes like, I'm not sure if you generally make the best food choices :D

  • [Deactivated] on 20/09/2011 - 21:13

    Not a deal.

  • simulacrum on 02/10/2011 - 21:45
    -1

    These guys used to be good years ago, but it's another case of the 7 step Chinese restaurant quality cycle:

    1)Someone starts a restaurant that sells good food at an amazing price, and the restaurant gets good reviews and becomes hugely popular beyond the owner's wildest dreams.
    3)Restaurant does everything it can to get more people through the door.. adding an upstairs, rushing people to order, eat and leave.This places too much pressure on kitchen and service staff, often causing any cooks who take pride in the quality of their work to quit.
    4)Once the staff culture changes the food quality suffers increasingly, nobody sees the warning signs because the by sheer momentum the restaurant is still getting people through the door.
    5)The inferior attitudes are cemented and restaurant is now irreparably compromised. Service is bad, food is terrible, hygiene is awful .
    6)Popularity declines sharply. Owners start to panic but instead of increasing quality, expand the menu to include more crappy food or advertise all you can eat specials. But none of this helps and, possibly after failing a food hygiene inspection or two, the owner sells the business to someone else while s/he can still get a decent price for it (they might throw in some of the recipes that people once flocked to the restaurant for).
    7)The hopeful new owner hires new staff, gets a new chef to relaunch with a fresh menu. [Return to step 1]

    I'm guessing Camy's is once again at the start of step 6. Give it another couple of years and if we bide our time it might be good again.

    • dealhunt on 02/10/2011 - 21:48
      -1

      This happens everywhere, Chinese or not.

      • simulacrum on 02/10/2011 - 22:25

        I hope you didn't interpret my post as having a racial motive, since that certainly wasn't the intent. If I might clarify -

        The phenomenon I've tried to describe seems to be most typical for restaurants that are:

        1) Very cheap but serve decent quality food.
        2) In the CBD or surrounding suburbs.

        In Melbourne that pretty much limits you to Asian cuisine (most of which in the Melbourne CBD just happens to be Chinese). Part of this might be to do with demand, but mostly it's the amazingly versatile nature of Asian street food. It'd be hard to run a French or Italian restaurant with a menu of comparable quality and diversity at comparable prices to many inner city Chinese restaurants.

        Cheap European restaurants are mostly crap to begin with and hence don't go through the same cycle. Expensive, high-quality restaurants (of all cuisines) are a different beast altogether. Restaurants out in the quieter burbs seem to follow a slightly different pattern.

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