Thursday, 20 February 2020

COVID-19

Mr HALSE (Ringwood) (10:04): We know that Chinese Australian businesses are doing it tough at the moment. That is why a group of us last night went to Tea House at Chinatown for a delicious and succulent Chinese meal. I enjoyed the vegetable numbers, and the member for Melton enjoyed the meat dishes. We all had a wonderful time, and we were treated with great hospitality at Tea House. I want to thank them for having us last night.

I want to thank those Chinese Australian restaurants in my community. A couple of my favourites are Wong’s House, Yang’s Place and D for Dumplings, and I was at Jade Village just recently. They took care of us very well—a delicious, delicious Chinese feed. Dumplings Delish is down in Mitcham, just a couple of minutes from where I live. I like the vegetarian dumplings there; they do a fantastic fried vegetarian dumpling.

The member for Glen Waverley has been touring the Chinese businesses in his electorate, and so has the member for Box Hill. We need to get around our Chinese businesses, and we are going to do that. We should be really clear that our businesses are open. We should get there, and we should support them. I look forward today to getting to yum cha just down the road.