Hooking Bar&Restaurant - Boroondara

Quality Chinese food at a good price. Eat in or takeaway are both good.

Not Even Open. Took the payment and no open there. Disgraceful

We ate here so much in the last 5 or 6 years, visiting Connie and her wonderful team. However, the last couple if times we have been here, the food has severely diminished in appearance, the serving sizes have reduced and extra charges have been added to the menu (extra .50c for sauces etc that would have been included before). When the blandness of the meal was bought up with the waitress, the waitress shredded it off and walked off. On another occasion, the waitress stood at the door, waiting for us (and one other couple) to leave.Such a shame a great spot like this hasn't been able to keep running at such a delicious pace. What would have been a 5 star review is now a 1 star review.We won't be back.

We came here 2 weeks ago food was fresh and tasted fantastic. We went back tonight and from lemon chicken that was fried perfectly and served in plastic takeway container tonight's was greasy batter served in a hot take away box and tasted terrible. Ordered prawn cutlets, dim sims wontons squid special combination fried rice. The lady who took the order with very little english skills still managed to read it back to me so thought all should be fine. Waited 25 minutes to walk away without prawn cutlets or wantons but with six dim sims instead of just one serve and squid that was just as poorly made as the chicken. The woman blamed me for not giving her right order even though we went over it twice on phone. When I went back in thinking it was just honest mistake that the wonton's and prawn cutlets had been forgotten the woman kept looking through the menu trying to find what I ordered and had no idea what I was saying. In the end they cooked the prawn cutlets and told me they had no wonton's to start with, so by the time I got back to chicken it was even greasier than when we got it ten minutes before. We got home hoping the fried rice was at least going to be ok but it tasted so disgusting and we still can't figure out why but I spat it into the sink as it was inedible. After that too scared to even try dim sims. There was something else in order floating in container and we don't even know what that could have been. $66.00 would have been better spent at the pub across the road. My aim on Monday will be to ring council to get food inspectors out there to go through the kitchen. I never leave reviews but I am so disgusted shocked by the difference in experiences I don't want anyone to waste their time or money

This used to be a great delivery option that I have been using for years, but something has changed. It has become too snobbish for a neighborhood spot!