KITTY Chung knew her husband's chicken chow mein packed a punch but she never thought it would see a would-be robber wok away empty-handed.
About 8.20pm on Friday she and her husband, Chi On, were getting ready to close their business, Thea-Mae Chinese Restaurant, at Gaven Heights shopping complex.
The last thing they expected was an armed robber wielding a 30cm carving knife to walk through the door.
However the Chungs, who have owned the restaurant for six years, were not going to let the "skinny, weedy thief" get away with their takings.
He learnt the hard way woks are not just good for cooking.
"We had our last order put in about 8.15pm and my husband was out the back cooking it," Mrs Chung said.
"A man came through the front door and his face was covered with a black handkerchief, which I thought was strange, and then he just pulled out this big knife and I started to scream."
As the robber attempted to steal the till, pocket-sized Mr Chung came up from behind with a wok full of scorching chicken chow mein and his ladle.
He poured the contents of the wok on to the bandit's back. The armed man, now in agony, struggled from behind the counter as Mr Chung continued to wallop him with the wok, the force causing him to drop the knife.
It was quickly picked up by Mrs Chung who, with her husband, chased the man down Universal Drive.
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