Swan Lake Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Churchlands

Well, I have been coming here since it opened as a kid. Early 80's. Owners have changed, but the special fried rice, oh the best rice, anywhere, hands down, I love it and love it on it's own, has never, ever changed in all this time. The egg, the generous prawns, mushrooms, chicken, not a billion bamboo shoots either. It was a really big shame that the new owner didn't continue with the Chinese New Year celebrations, dragon, dance, fire, etc, all the locals came to watch each day, celebrate, and it's very clever marketing my friends. You spend a bit on sharing Chinese culture, everyone remembers and came from all around to see, to be a part of it. It was an absolutely iconic little local bit of Chinese culture, good luck, and talked about for long after the week and celebrations were over You could hear it for km's. It gets people talking about YOU. You will be rewarded if you were to bring it back. Seriously... Clever marketing, promoting if you consider the business to follow my friends. In 2024 to not have as little as your up to date menu posted online anywhere is a little bit of a shame because if you put in a little more effort, the glory days could easily return and a packed restaurant. Apart from the best fried rice ever, I love the sesame prawn toast, big juicy prawn chunks, lavished in sesame seeds. Yum. The deep fried chilli beef is absolutely delicious. The salt and pepper squid, and also fish is exquisite - but DON'T get it home delivered, or even take away. Has to be ordered in restaurant like most squid, fish dishes or is soggy, no one can prevent this, nothing the chef can do about it. In 2024, they still don't even deliver. Your kinda missing a huge market guys. And the last menu on Facebook page was 2020 and not even the full menu, probably not even your post. Come on guys, step up. Let your young staff get you up to date, online at least, post some pictures, get a facebook page, Instagram, some fun, some yummy food, pics, families couples, locals enjoying your food, and cash in on the local home delivery market. You are seriously losing so much business because you don't, have any presence. There's nothing really to find online. So you only have locals, word of mouth and clients like me that have been coming for 40 years. PLEASE KNOW THAT THESE PICTURES ARE TAKE-AWAY, JUST BEING OPENED 3 HOURS AFTER BEING COLLECTED. Yum, see ya, we are going to eat and it's still a little warm 😋 oh, and you rarely get bonus prawn crackers nowadays. Huge, generous bag, fresh, we have eaten way more than half 😊👍🥢🍜🍚🍤 Please excuse the menu having some oil. It was on the bottom of the box of food with a bag of prawn toast on top. Preferred to post menu as there's nothing...

Went to this restaurant for lunch, there were quite a few of us and we have been going there for many years now. But today will be my last time going there, the food we ordered came out quite quickly but 1 of us chewed on a piece of wire that was in out fried rice, when we called the waitress to tell her this, she explained that’s because of the scourer they used, obviously they don’t rinse the wok otherwise that would have been washed out, then took the dish away and brought a new serve of food, then I also chewed on a piece wire in my fried rice, by this time I was very annoyed that this happened again, I called the waitress over and told her I too found a pice of wire and that it could have been fatal if it had been a child or an elderly person, and she said I’ll go and tell my manager and came back and asked if I wanted my meal replace and by this time I did not trust that my dish will be safe to eat, however she did promised that it wouldn’t happen again, so we accepted the takeaway, as they couldn’t refund me my money because the bill had already been paid which is a load of rubbish, obviously this restaurant doesn’t care about customer service or the safety of their customers eating wires in their meals, I was very disappointed that the manager did not even bother to come to our table to apologise, very poor service and the restaurant could do with a very good clean too, it’s gotten very run down and needless to say we will not be returning and I advised all other diners to please check their meals carefully cause if that was a toddler who got those pieces of wire I’d hate to think what they would have...

Good takeaway Chinese food, no outraged copey Karen review complaints. Friendly interaction at pickup and extra star for using paper takeaway containers, honestly that's something that should be more widespread, but is very rarely seen. The decor is throwback stereotype chinese restaurant, the single lonely fish disconsolately swimming about in the mossy fishtank near the register begged me for help but I left him there and I'm having trouble sleeping.

The large special fried rice is srsly one of the best I've had. There's a generous ratio of pork, prawnies and chicken to rice content with a spectacular smoky CKT flavour. I would order multiples of this dish by itself and freeze portions so I could sneak out in the middle of the night and shamefully snack on it for weeks afterwards. Honey chilli chicken syrup was unfortunately slightly overdone and was a little acrid, transforming from 'sticky' to 'burnt toffee' taste. It comes on a bed of deep fried noodles and has sliced chillies scattered amongst the dry, chewy/crispy battered thinly sliced chicken pieces. The sweet and sour pork was exactly what's expected from a classic sweet and sour pork. Deep fried chili beef was nice enough but the chili was hard to taste, possibly because it had a sweetness to the cornflour-enhanced [gravy]. Total was 65 bucks and it was worth it! PS Portions...