From the moment you enter the automatic doors of this restaurant you'll be hit by the amount of…read morenoise that seems to rally across the walls of this place. It's the morning rush and tables are already full. The hostess, a lady in a red kimono, welcomes us with a smile and looks around the room. Within minutes we're ushered to a table that's been so recently vacated the seats are still warm. With Chinese tea on the table, the hand waving can begin. Great Century Restaurant serves yum cha which is best for a family breakfast, brunch or lunch on a weekend. These are usually the busiest times, but also (imo) when the best food comes out. Definitely grab the crunchy prawn balls if they come around, or order them from the kitchen if they don't. I don't know the official name, but I can describe it only as a cooked prawn ball within a crunchy crouton outside (that's been deep-fried). Dip it into some sweet and sour sauce and devour them all before someone else does. Best advice for this restaurant is to head in around 11am or midday. Never head in around 2pm or later because they recircle the dishes around the restaurant by this time and of course there is a limited variety by then.

Love the Yum Cha here, highly recommended. Very busy, nice traditional Chinese restaurant.read more

Absolutely amazing food. The flavor profiles truly leave a mark on your taste buds…read more Highly recommend the sizzling garlic king prawns, Mongolian lamb, and sate chicken. Can't go wrong with anything on the menu, even the chicken + sweet corn soup. The service is phenomenal. Food comes quick, the team is extremely personable and hospitable. Would come back without a doubt.

Omg the best salt and pepper squid ever! Great pho and dozens of dishes to choose from…read more Lovely interior very very busy place. The service is excellent and the food to die for! Last time had hainese chicken it was delicious and that squid is to die for. Also a tbone cooked on stone cheap and delicious get down there and try it out. Great pricing too! Btw try the fried wontons and sofa chahn yum Almost forgot my favourite dish high in fibre is water spinach stir fried in garlic and I get them to add chilli to it.

Great place to get Pho. I usually order the one with all the trimmings #52. They also have the…read moreprawn rice rolls I like with peanut sauce.

The best Cantonese restaurant in Hurstville. Very local. Never disappoints. Always on point. Prob…read morehelps that I send my friends ahead to get table and order. I don't go anywhere else but here and every visit, albeit far and few in between is ALWAYS GOOD. EVERYTHING on menu is good!!

I still remember my first visit to this place. I was very young and had no idea where I was. Then I…read moregot a little older and revisited to place. Bad experience. Bad food and bad service. Over recent years you see this place getting more and more packed and queues usually signifies a must try - or it could be just a hype. Have always heard my parents say how good the place is now with reasonable prices and good services. I'm the type that's "see it to believe it and to be innit to winnit". So went there tonight and ordered steamed scallops with vermicelli, mushrooms and veggies in fish broth and steamed eel with black bean sauce. Was I amazed and did mums words live up to standards? Ah hell yeah man! Great food and service was fabulous - always remember Chinese restaurants don't give A class service. And they kept saying thank you when we left lol. Will come back after 8:30pm one night for the specials!

Food here was pretty good. Service is reasonable. Price is ok. Gets a little busy at times but…read morenever as busy as the other big DimSum restaurant in Westfield. Cash is encouraged and they make it obvious! Hmmm... But if you insist that you do not have any, they will accommodate credit card. I heard the cashier mumble under her skin that it was a bad day as they started off with 12 credit card payments that morning! ----------- Addendum 10 months later the food quality has deteriorated together with service. Obviously this is a personal opinion. The restaurant is now not busy. Cash is now insisted on. Try to use a credit card and the cashier says they have to add $2/- a head extra cover charge! That is way more than the 3% often quoted for using AMEX. The is just another surcharge!

Sometimes when you take a gamble it pays off, and this was one of those occasions. With this…read morerestaurant offering "20% off Yum Cha lunch" during weekdays one cannot help but wonder what they have to offer. To add to the risk factor I decided to take my partner. Though the place was alive and busy with the chatter of patrons, we where seated instantly and offered free hot tea (something of a novelty now as I understand it). The place was clean and food was made available to us pretty much instantly. The range of food was enough for us to enjoy a good selection without being too overwhelmed. The food was always hot, tasted relatively fresh, and traditional from a Westerns standpoint. The staff was abundant and willing to help. We got a little lost in translation a couple of times, but seriously what do you expect? We enjoyed ourselves and filled up on all that we could, then went over to the counter to pay with our stamped form in hand. After the 20% discount the grand total was only $26.60... for two people! I was in shock by how cheap it was. A word of advice, take cash to avoid any high credit card fees, lucky for us we had cash. Our only disappointment was not receiving a glass of water that we requested, but we never followed it up as the tea was just fine. (Another note, if you plan on parking in the Mandarin Centre's parking lot be sure to have your parking ticket validated when paying so you receive the free 3 hours parking.) Update: Unfortunately now that the restaurant has established itself, the 20% off lunch no longer applies. However we still go as we love the food.

Although I have never stepped foot into this place, the food spoke for this restaurant. We ordered…read moreonline and had it delivered. Generally not our first option as we all know take away is very unpredictable. Sometimes the food is just as good as if you ordered it in the restaurant and other times - there are no words to describe what you get. We ordered rusty nails (Peking beef strips), satay, salt and pepper calamari, sweet and sour pork, and combination chow mein. My fav was the rusty nails but every dish was delish! Our next visit there will be in dining experience so that we can get the full experience!

Excellent food, Service, and a great menu. Very pleasant staff who are always friendly & obliging…read more We are regular Friday lunchtime customers. Best Chinese south of Sydney.

Been here twice, once for yum cha, once for dinner. The yum cha is definitely better. Went for yum…read morecha on a Sunday afternoon and then another Sunday for dinner, didn't have to book either times. The restaurant is pretty big and can accommodate groups. The yum cha is tasty but can get a little pricey. Overall some pretty good dishes. When I went for dinner, we ordered the peking duck, which I thought was pretty tasty but my cousin said it wasn't presented properly - with one slice of cucumber and no green onion, and too much hoison sauce. The lettuce wraps were a bit salty and didn't have the traditional water chestnuts. The seafood chow mein was good, the veggies were a bit bland. Overall it was a decent dinner, but nothing spectacular. One exciting thing was that the bathroom had toilet seat covers!! It's probably more exciting for me as an American living in Sydney and missing toilet seat covers.

Sea Treasure has had a name change and a complete refurb of its restaurant. It's now called…read moreImperial Signature and the restaurant is clean and bright. The food was always good, especially the weekend Yum Cha. It just seems to be a lot more efficient. I've never been to YumCha (Dim Sum) and had one of the cart pushing "aunties" ask from across the restaurant whether I wanted more. Usually they glide on past and leave you hungry. Imperial Signature is really worth the effort if you're into Yum Cha. It's best after 11am when the carts are full and the kitchen is heaving.

Great cheap and cheerful Chinese resturant with your usual entree, mains and dessert…read more Have done take away here a number of times and never disappoints. It is byo and they take cards. The owner has been running this resturant for nearly 35 years. The decor would suggest an upgrade in the 90's some time. If time is a measure of quality 6 people have been through to pick up their takeaway as I have been writing this review with another 3 orders on the phone.

Just another suburban Chinese restaurant... harsh, perhaps, but fair. Forestville Chinese…read moreRestaurant doesn't stand out to its customers one way or the other - neither dear nor cheap, neither really tasty or bad, neither busy nor quiet.. Forestville Chinese Restaurant could be any Chinese restaurant in the Australian suburbs. The service is pretty ok - quick, friendly and smily. The lunch special that I get is also ok - a large serving for not so many dollars, but it's pretty heavy on the rice and sauce and pretty light on the meat and vegetables; again, standard practice by Chinese restaurants throughout Australia. The restaurant itself is quite dark, with faded decor. But it's clean with a good amount of noise - not so much that you can't talk, not so little that it's too scary to talk, lest the rest of Forestville find out about your STD or that your dentist is having an affair with her assistant. Forestville Chinese Restaurant is inoffensive, reasonably priced and quick; nothing to go out of your way to see or to avoid.