Huong's BYO Restaurant, West End

The Friday before last, I decided to go to a favourite destination of mine:  Huong's.  On this occasion I ordered one of my usual dishes at this restaurant:  spicy chicken.  Spicy chicken could refer to any number of chicken dishes so I'll explain what Huong's consider to be "spicy chicken".  At Huong's spicy chicken consists of deep fried, battered pieces of chicken with a thin, spicy sauce.  What I particularly like about this dish is its lack of vegetables.  There is a smattering of fried onion and capsicum, and a little grated carrot, but these are more garnishes than anything else.  This means you get a lot of chicken pieces.  This makes the meal quite filling.  The only drawback to this is that I often like to order entrees at Huong's.  However, an entree plus a main as filling as spicy chicken can be a little heavy on the stomach.  I could not fault the chicken itself.  It was tender and the batter crisp and not at all rendered soggy by the sauce.  As I said before the sauce is thin, but carries great flavours, the likes of which are unmistakably Chinese.  I would have prefered it to be spicier, but there was a good enough level of spice.  There have been occasions in the past that I have been served this dish with an inadequate amount of sauce, but this was not the case this time.  Despite this been a filling meal, I still had an appetite afterwards, so I ordered another favourite of mine:  deep fried ice cream.  Huong's take on deep fried ice cream has a coconut based coating, whipped cream, and your choice of topping (I chose chocolate).  While this was a very enjoyable dessert, the outer layer of ice cream was a lot softer than the middle.  This meant that after I had eaten the coating, topping, and whipped cream, I was left with a chunk of hard vanilla ice cream.  However, I think this is probably something that cannot be avoided, owing to the nature of deep fried ice cream.  So, certainly not for the first time, and probably not for the last, I was not let down by this restaurant.