Taste Of The Orient - CASTLEMAINE

Do you like home made pies, pasties, sausage rolls and other pastries? If you do, give this place a go. I had a sausage roll and chicken spinach pastie. Both were delicious. The Mrs sank a coffee and gave it a big thumbs up. There are plenty of sweets to try as well. There is also plenty of seating if you want to dine in. So if you like supporting local business, please consider!

This place never disappoints.<br/ Always greeted with a smile when you walk through the door. Staff are friendly and efficient.<br/ The food is outstanding. Authentic flavours that transport you to Asia.<br/ The free range chicken spring rolls (a personal favourite) are totally addictive.<br/ Everything is fresh and organic. What more could you ask for?!<br/ Great value for money as well.<br/ So, a winner all round.<br/

Yum. Honest little place with free range meats, organic ingredients and I believe everything gluten free. I don't even know where to find such amazing values in an Asian restaurant anywhere in Melbourne! Food was good. Had some dim sims and dumplings. Also had a custard bun. Everything was lovely and we filled our belly's for under $20 per person. I have read some other reviews saying it's expensive, bit I disagree. The ingredients that are used will be a lot more expensive than most Asian places and the prices seem comparable to me. It's not very cosy to eat in, but we sat outside. Unique little spot!

My score 4 stars.  J I had dinner here a while ago before seeing a concert at the fab Theatre Royal.  The place we were going to try was chockers, so we came here instead.  Small interior staff were nice.  Being free range some organic) ingredients, we felt ok to try more meaty things than we usually would still skipped the beef though).  We only had dumplings/yum cha type items as they are pretty rare up this way but pigged out on plenty to fill up).  Probably liked the Chive tiger prawn dumplings the most.  J loved their use of interesting mushrooms in the Veg ones too.  Overall a very pleasant experience not cheap, but you're paying for the quality of ingredients the fact you're in the countryside.  Castlemaine is lucky to have them!

As Taste of The Orient is a stone's throw from my place, it has become my regular eatery. I love the steamed buns, particularly the ginger chicken. And the vegie version has tasty shitake mushrooms in it! All the staff are polite and friendly, with service being efficient. In Winter the chicken and corn soup warms one up at treat. Dinner from 5 till 8:30pm is fabulous too, with my staple being the Malay Deep-Fried Chicken with peanut sauce. For desert one cannot go past a steamed custard bun and Malay coffee. Kids love it too!!!