Taste of The Orient Yum Cha House — Restaurant in Victoria

You know what I love about Taste of the Orient? Every single flavour listed on a menu item comes through distinctly in the food, in perfect balance. Every herb and spice as well as the taste of high quality meats and vegetables. Never overpowering, never underwhelming. It is literal perfection. I have been eating your food since I was a little kid and you had the stall at the Wesley Hill Market, my friend and I loved the waffles and red bean sesame balls for a treat. To this day those balls are one of my favourite foods and they are just as I remember them, stretchy and chewy on the inside, mildly sweet bean paste and tender crispy on the outside. Now one of my favourite things to get are the dim sims, fried - the texture is so perfect, never tough, so fresh, crispy, fragrant with herbs and ginger etc, perfectly cooked to the tender middle, and they're never too oily. I know I'm rambling now but this is my comfort food - the only other food with this quality and nostalgia is the home cooked meals of loved ones. And nowhere else can you get authentic, free range, organic, GLUTEN FREE yum cha like this!! And always within 10-15min too. Castlemaine is so lucky to have you. Thought it was about time I left a review because you guys never fail to turn an average day into a good...

Of my family of 6 two of us have to eat Gluten Free. Whilst we were in Castlemaine we stumbled across this quaint little Chinese restaurant. Luckily we went there as soon as it opened because we soon realised it was a popular little place.

You can’t imagine our joy when we realised they have an extensive Gluten free menu from lovingly prepared dumplings to various mains.

So we decided to try some dumplings as a starter which were the bomb. Such flavour packed into each little morsel. All their soy sauce they use is also Gluten Free (tamari) so not even a concern sprinkling some onto our dumplings. The dumpling wrapper was light and delicate and clearly home made.

Went on to try some Salt and Pepper Squid and some Sweet and Sour Chicken served with a side of plain rice. Was so good my son wanted more of the chicken so went up and ordered more. Was the first time my son was able to eat Chinese food since it’s really hard to find any close to our home that do Gluten Free.

The two lovely ladies who I assume are the owners were absolutely lovely even while being run off their feet.

Will definitely we going back to Castlemaine and eating here again. Luckily we enjoy travelling on the Vline trains!

Thanks for amazing food and making our trip to Castlemaine a...

we got half of the container of sweet and sour pork and there was mainly soup in the stir friend veggies. the fried rice had no flavour and barely any veggies or meat! We also got 4 mixed dim sims and the veggie one had a dumpling outside and a sweet mushy inside that none of us liked the tofu was hard and like leather with no flavor.the plain rice was really dry even after putting the sweet and sour pork in it.the fried rice had shrimp in it but some weren't completely peeled. Dim sims looked raw and not even the dog would eat them.... we felt sick after eating at this place .meal cost 84$ which was way to expensive for how bad the quality is. When we called them to complain they did nothing not even ask us to bring it back so they could fix it.We will not be...