Busy Dim Sum spot in Chatswood! They have a small selection of food items- mostly pork/beef. I am a…read morepescatarian so can vouch only for their fish and non-meat items which were delicious! It was just 2 of us and we have about 10 dishes plus drinks which came out to about $65 USD. Definitely recommend for a tummy filling meal!

Fast Delicious Yum Cha Always! The Dumplings, Congee, Peking…read moreDuck, Pork Buns, Seafood, Noodles Tripe it's all good! Hot fresh Yum Cha is always fast at your table and is always high quality.

Amazing food especially the Pad Thai (in my opinion one of the best in the eastern suburbs)…read more Insanely good prices and super quick service for good food. Would recommend. They are however, not open on Sundays despite what their description says.

Thai Volunteer is a little different then your standard Thai we have become accustomed to in Sydney…read morewhich isn't necessarily a good or bad thing. The interior is very colourful and bright which isn't the standard for Thai places. The venue highlights the fact that they make contributions to help support Thai children in need of aid. So you can eat and feel as though your contributing a little towards helping out underprivileged youths. The menu is full of classics like Tom Yum, Pad Thai, various stir fry and noodle options. They offer $9 specials all day everyday. I decided to order Tom Yum Vegetable Soup with Mushrooms and Tofu as well as a Beef Salad. The menu offers really cheap eats. The soup was $6 and the Beef Salad was $11. The Tom Yum Soup was one of the best I have had in a long day. So spicy it had me grabbing for the tissues and water. Packed with fresh vegetables like broccoli, snow peas, mushrooms and plenty of chilli's. Great choice from the menu and would go back again just for this. The beef salad didn't look amazing on first look but the Salad was surprisingly good too. It had lots of tomatoes, spring onions, cucumber, carrots and capsicums. The sauce was really delicious but it wasn't really mixed into the salad and sat at the bottom of the dish. Packed with Beef this is a really good low carb option for the health conscious. Nice friendly staff and good menu options make this place a great option to try if your in Bondi.

I became familiar with this Chinese restaurant before I went there. Such is the power of word of…read moremouth. It wasn't a terribly exciting or even positive introduction. And it had absolutely no relationship to the food. It was the stools. The red stools that people sit on. And I got word that they were supremely uncomfortable. I didn't follow up on the critique (made by a friend) and in fact forgot about the restaurant altogether. It wasn't until my partner and I happened to be walking around Darlinghurst around dinner time at a later date that I remembered about the comment (which would surely put a black mark on any restaurant's name). And yet, it was delightful. We were the first ones there - so early in fact that we lingered outside like miscreants while the staff were eating their dinner - and avoided the stools altogether, and instead sat at the two person table further toward the kitchen. We ordered the Beijing Dumplings (lamb and vegetarian), the steamed vegetarian buns, hainan chicken rice and the nyonya chicken and potato curry with two pots of brown rice. Mostly everything was outstanding. The only thing that didn't surpass our expectations wildly was the Hainan chicken rice. The rest was so incredibly good that we've gone back twice since (take-away). The staff were also incredibly accommodating and take note that they have a vegetarian menu as well as a Coeliac one. As for those infamous stools, on our last visit there to pick up our take-away we saw Hugo Weaving sitting on one of them at the far end of the communal table eating his dinner. If it's good enough for Hugo Weaving ..

Thinking about the Sang Choi Bao ($13) at Fu Manchu is enough to get me excessively drooling. I am…read moreso glad a friend of mine shared one of hers with me all that time ago because now when I come here I encourage other friends to try them too. Everybody is just as impressed as I am. The fresh prawn rice paper rolls with chilli dipping sauce and Beijing vegetarian dumplings are also staples. The Beef Tenderloin Fillet Fry ($20) is tasty but the Mixed Asian Greens ($10) is uninspiring. The menu is a little pricier than you would find elsewhere and you may find yourself leaving still relatively hungry. But if you order more (like I usually do) or come on a night when you are not incredibly hungry to begin with, then the quality of food should impress you. The restaurant is BYO and also has a coeliac friendly gluten-free menu and options for kids. The only issue I have with this place is the menu layout. I think it would be more successful if the dishes had a bit more description in terms of the sauces rather than just the main ingredient.

My wife and I are visiting Sydney and staying by Darling Harbour, and our hotel is right by…read moreChinatown. While walking back from Hyde Park, we came across Chef N Wok. It was very nice inside and receives high praise on Google Reviews. We shared the Mongolian Lamb. It was fabulous. We don't have any Mongolian Lamb in the Chinese restaurants near us in Arizona. Very tasty Mongolian sauce and the lamb was very tender. Rice doesn't come with the entree's here, but a small bowl was only $4 AUD. If we would be in Sydney longer, we would go back.

Looks like this place rebranded itself to Chef n Wok. Based on the previous reviews, we had high…read morehopes, but I guess the quality went down with the name change. The best part of our meal was the bottled beer. The Mongolian beef was not cooked well, it was just soft and soggy in its sauce, which was overly sweet. It came out on a fajita platter sizzling, so truly impressive that it turned out as mushy as it did. There was a lot of potential for that dish to taste better. The stir fried noodles tasted like they had been cooked well at one point, but then frozen, reheated, and rinsed with water to remove any potential flavor that once existed. Despite the restaurant being mostly empty when we arrived, we were seated right in between two other occupied tables, which made it feel like we were all at one big dinner together instead of on our own separate date nights. The people working were very nice - just wish the food was better! This meal was one of our first meals in Sydney and made us really worried that all of our meals here would be overpriced and tasteless - thankfully, there are better options out there.

Lynn was a huge letdown for me. The reviews were very positive, the prices were reasonable, and the…read moreportion sizes seemed fair. Maybe we visited on an off-night? The restaurant had no more than four parties when we arrived for a late dinner on a Monday night around 8pm. Then again, Lynn isn't very easy to spot if you're strolling along Castlereagh St, which may explain the emptiness. It's pretty standard to order xiao long baos at a Shanghainese restaurant. So of course, we got one order of #701 XLBs, along with #801 Shanghai Noodles with Shredded Pork and Vegetables and #805 Vegetable and Pork Wontons in Noodles with Hot and Spicy Sauce. The XLBs weren't amazing. The pork meat was bland, and the soup was very light and not as flavorful as I hoped. However, the skin was perfect: delicate and thin, yet sturdy enough to hold the meat and soup, and it had good texture. The Shanghai noodles weren't special either. I liked the variety of veggies and pork, but the dish overall needed more salt as it was tasteless and lacked any depth. The wontons and noodles in a hot and spicy sauce was a very heavy dish. Noodles had a very thick, starchy texture. Wontons were generously stuffed with a large amount of filling, mainly shredded vegetables because I didn't taste the pork, and the skin was too thick and chewy. The sauce was extremely spicy, and it irked me when we weren't automatically given water refills when our glasses were clearly empty. Lynn is a huge restaurant, so it can accommodate large groups. It's also very clean and modern. Service wasn't rude, but they certainly weren't attentive either. The only reason we tried this place was because they had a takeaway menu available at our hotel. The menu looked promising, but after dining here, we left unimpressed.

Din Tai Fung, better known as DTF (not the other DTF you perv) is generally tagged as the best…read moreShanghai/soup dumpling in all the land. Well, as much as I like the dumplings at DTF, I don't think they're THE BEST EVER...and not for the price you pay. So I started a search on other soup dumplings in the city and came across Lynn Shanghai, as it opened up relatively recently. The place is a little hard to find, the sign is small and it's actually inside a building so you have to walk through a lobby to get into the restaurant. The building is located next to the Scientology building (why, I don't know) and that's all you need to know to find it. The place is a lot bigger than anticipated, and there's an open kitchen so you can see the dumplings and food being made. The chefs all wear masks so you can feel relieved you aren't getting stank breath on your food. The menu is rather extensive and offers all sorts of cuisine from Shanghai, but I came for the dumplings. Pan fried and steamed please. For $8.80, you get 6 dumplings...not the cheapest but cheaper than DTF and just as good...if not BETTER. Seriously, I don't know what the fuss is about DTF, the dumplings are pretty small and while tasty, they're not that tasty. There also isn't much of a wait for this place as it's still relatively new, so if you're feening for some soup dumplings and don't want to queue at DTF, this is the place to go. I haven't been back to DTF since.

WOW. If you like…read moredumplings this is the place to go. I can't wait to go back. We had the dim sum platter and it was amazing. The salt and pepper tofu, squid and prawns were also a delight. The tofu was so creamy and delicious. For mains we had the half duck, snow pea sprouts and steamed rice. They were really busy and we waited quite a long time for the main. They totally forgot it or had an issue in the kitchen. Our order got rushed to the front of the line and arrived in no time after that. The staff were professional and very apologetic and also took it off out bill. Even tho it wasn't the best experience they made it a great one! The cocktails list also hit the spot, I opted for a queen sour. I recommend it! Safe to say I can't wait to return for more dumplings!! YUM

You will probably need a reservation…read more 10/10 for lush ambiance. 10/10 for service. I actually dislike Merivale joints because usually the staff act like they are impossibly cool and they're doing you a favour by getting you a table. Not here. They were uniformly really warm and friendly and attentive. 9/10 for food. Really, really fantastic food and cocktails. Amazing dumplings. The Moreton bay bugs and rice dishes were a standout to me. I can see why everyone loves this place and why it's hard to get a table of you just show up randomly, even on a Tuesday night (it happened to me!).

This is a great stop if you want a large verity of options. I've tried the wonton noodle soup,…read morechicken curry laksa, and curry puff. The portion sizes were very generous and all of the food was delicious. The only downside was that we were sitting by the door that kept getting left open so we were a bit cold.

Very close to as good as it gets, a laid-back place with delicious eats that will satisfy most, if…read morenot all ex-Malaysian and ex-Singaporean, and other ex-South-East Asian palates for sure. I've eaten here no less than 3 times whilst on a one-year temporary assignment in Sydney (I'm a Melburnian resident) and happily discovered this place whilst living in the nearby neighbourhood of Ashfield. It is one place that I'll return to whenever I visit.

Hands down one of the best dim sum places here in Sydney and this is from a HongKonger. Their egg…read moredarts are absolutely hands down the best I've tasted here in Sydney. So delicious. The other dim sum dishes are wonderful especially their beef rice rolls. It's really too bad the locals don't travel to this restaurant due to traffic and parking, they are really missing out.

This is the worst Chinese restaurant that I have even experienced. Food is average, but the service…read moreis the worst. A) the so-called Chinese tea is not authentic but just a tea bag in the teapot, which is about under $0.30 as a box of 12-pack tea bags is about $3.00, and the restaurant charges about $2.50 for each customer, B) poor service, most of the tables are served as the food carts do not even come by, and in fact I only saw one cart only servicing one or two tables , which may be because of not enough food available, and C) not value for money, although I do not mind as long as I can have a good eat out, but with the worst service 3 small dim sim dishes are over $30.00, just not worth.