Got here after disembarking a cruise ship an hour earlier. It was simple navigating to Chinatown…read more The shopping mall was not too busy yet, but this restaurant can get really bustling by noon. Dim sum comes out in carts and their variety is good! They also provided yellow mustard, which is one of our dim sum preferenc

Great Dim Sum served by friendly ladies pushing their carts. Highly recommended if you enjoy…read moregenuine Chinese food and especially Dim Sum.

Yum cha in Sydney This is a great spot to have yum cha in…read moreSydney. The servers were friendly and the dishes were all lovely - although we did have a bit of trouble with the dumpling skins. The dumplings seemed to stick to each other and to the bottom of the steamer so you couldn't get them out of the steamer without breaking them. It's very reasonably priced by Sydney standards and I would certainly be happy to bring my fussy Malaysian-Chinese mum here!!

The live abalone is very fresh. The shabu shabu thin sliced abalone is very good. The resulting…read morebroth was also very flavorful and great for a cold night. Add some shrimp dumplings to this dish and you have a great meal. The waiter was also very nice and friendly and cooked this dish at our table. The pippies with vermicelli was excellent. The sauce was soooo good. Although this dish was much cheaper than the live abalone, i actually was more impressed with this dish. Don't get me wrong, the live abalone was very good as well. The complementary dessert was very good but i was too full to try all of them.

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!).

Was super excited to try the dumplings here and they definitely lived up to the hype. We started…read morewith a nice jasmine tea. It was a light pink color and a had a hint of sweetness. We then ordered the manga, kiss me, starburst, and snowwhite dumplings. The kiss me dumpling was filled with chicken, ginger, shallot, and soup. It was super flavorful and simple. The starburst dumpling was filled with chicken and Luyu homemade soup in a fruit infused flour dough. Honestly tasted pretty similar to the kiss me dumplings did not taste fruit. The Snow White dumplings were adorable as they looked like bunnies. They had shrimp and a delicous sticky exterior that was made of potato starch dough. Our last set of dumplings were the manga ones which were filled with different types of mushrooms. Wow, the presentation was incredible as they looked like hedgehogs, but more importantly they tasted amazing. The crunchy dough texture was a nice change from all the steamed dumplings. We also had the duck fried rice and the eggplant. The fries rice was delicious and the duck added so much flavor. The sticky eggplant was very unique. I had never had eggplant prepared that way. Overall, would give a 4.5 a wonderful meal and would definitely come back to try other dumplings and dishes!

Finally went here for dinner the other night after almost a year of walking past and staring…read morelongingly. A friend and I ordered carrot dumplings, hedgehog dumplings, fried rice, spring rolls, chicken dumplings and a glass of wine each for about $80 total. We're not usually massive eaters but this is one of those places where you have to make an exception! The spring rolls are easily the best I've had in Sydney, and the dumplings arrived with three dipping sauces which were actually quite distinctive, unlike many restaurants which seem to offer multiple bowls of soy disguised as other things. The servers were some of the quickest, most efficient staff I've met in all of Australia, and seemed to have the speech about ingredients and spiciness down pat...even rote. However, the fried rice arrived well after everything else, and at 8:30 on a Friday night, I felt like we were being rushed out the door despite empty tables. Even so, the dumplings were delicious, and the speed with which everything else arrived was a good fit for how hungry we were! Given how much food we ordered, the price was really fair, too. Can't wait to go back!

The restaurant is very stark with its no decoration interior. Anyone would think you are about to…read moredine in a prison. The tables of happy eating customers tell me that this place serves up good food. I was right! So were the reviews by fellow Yelpers recommending to 'taste for yourself and see?" I chose the a bowl of Rice Vermicelli with Pork ($9.50) also I had to try the much raved about Spring Rolls (4) $4.50. When my meal arrived it was missing fresh mint. Some restaurants do and some don't. I asked the polite waitress if she was able to provide some - as this fresh herb really adds flavour to this Vermicelli dish. She obliged happily. The menu has so many different dishes to choose from and they all look extremely tantalising to my taste buds. Everyone is eating happily with out a sound, obviously to busy enjoying the food to be able to waste time in chatter. I'm definitely eating here again when next in Newtown and would recommend it to any of my friends.

There's no time like Pho time!…read more That's my cheesy saying every time I go out for Pho, which... since Pho Grand from my NYC days... I haven't really had a favourite place for Pho in Sydney... *pouts*... Well, I have found it! $7.50 buys you a bowl of delicious, authentic pho here. The broth is amazing. Their spring rolls were so-so, but I didn't come here for spring rolls, so who cares. LOVED THE PHO, WILL BE BACK.

What a weird experience to have Din Tai Fung as a takeaway stand in a mall. The food didn't…read moredisappoint, however. Disappointed to see that some of my favorites from the full serve restaurant aren't on the menu here.

This chain of Taiwanese dumpling houses serves up some of the best Chinese chow that can be…read moreobtained. Anything with pork or seafood is great!. They are most famous for their pork soup dumpling with the hot liquid center. Nothing quite like it. The service is very "respectful" in fact, a little too formal for my tastes. Its almost off-putting. Be sure to ask for the chilli paste if you like spicy. I could eat here every day, but then I would end up looking more like a giant dumpling myself. It literally gushes with liquid porky goodness.

The food was ok here, but I wasn't a fan of the service. I'm super ignorant when it comes to…read moreChinese food, and I pointed this out to the server, hoping he would help or make suggestions. He did not. So I went with some beef dish and some dumplings, that were ok, as I said. I'd definitely eat elsewhere next time.

We got fried dumplings, xiao long bao, and beef noodle soup. I was not impressed with any of them…read morebesides the pan fried dumplings. I would not come back here. I think there's so many other options here that if you want really good Chinese, go elsewhere. I'm still on a hunt while I'm here.

Soooo expensive for the portions but omg, yum every time!! Minus a star for the one they took half…read morean hour to make my dessert buns only to tell me they'd ripped in the process and I'd have to wait a little longer so they can replace one of three buns, so took about 40-45 mins all up. They even had the balls to charge me for it too. My family and I all had to wait for it as it was supposed to be on the go- absolutely wasted everyone's time. The bun was like $3 which I'm sure they could've given it to me on the house as a service for wasting my time! Left a really sour impression

My wife and I were here in Australia for the first time October 2025…read moreWe wanted to go to Chinatown, see what it was like, visit the Chinese Garden, and have some dimsum as a snack before dinner. This restaurant seemed to have what we wanted. We ordered 3 dishes that we were very familiar with and wanted to compare it with what we have experienced in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City. The 3 dishes were very good, service was good. Comparing prices to our most familiar - Los Angeles... The 3 dishes were comparable in price to what we would probably pay for an entire meal of dimsum! Expensive!

Good dim sum, old school carts rotating but service is not all that good. So a 3 star.read more

One of my favorite no frills places to eat good asian food. I've eaten here several times, always…read moreget the singapore noodles and the laksa, they are delicious! the staff is friendly and fast. It's a small mom and pop run shop, very low key and good for when you wanna eat something quick and not expensive. I can't recommend this enough! Delicious food!!

This place looks like it belongs in Eating World...it's a grimy no frills Chinese restaurant in a…read moreshopping centre and that's not a bad thing at all. Found in Surry Hills Shopping Village this place primarily does your go-to fast food Chinese dishes, with some Malaysian to boot. I've been here twice and I've had the roast duck laksa, the sweet and sour pork, the special fried rice, and the eggplant. Surprisingly for a place called Noodle Star, the Laksa is just OK. Everything else though, is pretty tasty and can be purchased for $12 or less. The fried rice is on the expensive side though. Definitely a local type place with cheap and tasty Chinese food, worth a visit if that's the food you want and don't/can't venture out to Chinatown. Everything is self serve.