Kambozza, Parramatta

EDIT: Kambozza is now closed.

This month's Time Out Sydney column is all about Burmese food. I headed to Kambozza in Parramatta and found a nine-page menu filled with traditional Burmese dishes.

Eat this...

Mohinga

WHAT IS IT?
Mohinga ($6.50) is the unofficial national dish of Burma, a fish noodle soup that is eaten primarily for breakfast, but is popular at lunchtime and dinner too. Find it at Kambozza, one of Sydney's few Burmese restaurants.



Burmese groceries for sale in front of the TV playing video clips

WHAT'S KAMBOZZA LIKE?

It's got more than 70 traditional Burmese dishes on the menu. The large dining room is sparsely decorated with all the attention on the TV in the corner, playing cheesy Burmese video clips.


Crisp flatbread with beans $5.50

WHAT ELSE DO I ORDER?
The crisp flatbread with beans ($5.50) is a crunchy disc of pastry smooshed with green lentils and fried shallots. It’s worth trying the white catfish ($15.50) cooked in a tomato curry. Fried rosella leaves ($7.50) are mixed with shrimp paste, garlic and pickled bamboo shoots.


White catfish curry $15.50

Fried rosella leaves $7.50

ANYTHING LESS HEAVY TO TRY?
There are 17 different salads to choose from, ranging from green papaya ($7.50) to shrimp ($7.50) and century egg ($7.50). Burmese salads balance salty, sweet and sour flavours and are often eaten on their own as a snack.


Samosa salad $6.50
- I love any dish that allows me to justify eating fried food under the guise of a 'salad'!


Preserved tea leaf salad $7.50
- the pickled tea leaves have an intriguing and addictive fermented flavour. It works brilliantly with the crunch of shredded cabbage and deep-fried yellow peas.


Goat curry $18.50

ANY DESSERT?
Desserts aren't a huge part of Burmese cuisine but pan-fried bananas ($4.50), caramelised then drenched with honey, will provide closure for sweet tooths.


Shwe Yin Aye coconut cream sherbet $4.50 and 
Nga Pyaw Kyaw Pyar Yae San pan-fried bananas $4.50

Kambozza (CLOSED)

1/115-125 Church Street, Parramatta

Tel: +61 (02) 8677 4195

Opening hours:

Tuesday to Sunday 10.30am-9.30pm

This article appears in the May 2011 issue of Time Out Sydney in my monthly Food & Drink column Eat This!  


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