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Chinatown

Yee King Noodles – Haymarket

15 August 2010 Chinatown
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When I glance back over the first half of this year it appears I’ve taken a bit of a liking to northern Chinese food. I just love the point of difference it brings with its hand-leavened noodles, grilled and slow cooked meats, breads and buns and of course the dumplings. If you were to ask [...]

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HuTong Dumpling Bar – Melbourne

9 August 2010 Chinatown
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…delayed flights, upgrades & just not enough time to eat My absolute worst would have to be a delayed flight. Not only is it a complete chore to sit on an aircraft for hours to get from here to there (especially when you’re six-foot-four & squeezed into a no leg-room sardine tin), but when something like a late [...]

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Daniang Dumpling Restaurant, Haymarket

15 July 2010 Chinatown
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There’s a dumpling place at the top of Dixon Street in Chinatown that seems to have stigma adhered to it as much as the white sparkle powder beneath Amy Winehouse’s nostrils. This case in point being Daniang Dumpling Restaurant is notorious for bad/rude service and some of the most mediocre dumplings you’ll sink your teeth into. The first time [...]

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Silk Road – Haymarket

14 June 2010 Chinatown
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It didn’t take me long to venture out for more dumplings beneath the grapevines after my recent grazings at Silk Road Chinese Halal Restaurant and what prompted me was the almost endless rain we had as an introduction to this years winter. This small corner restaurant on Chinatown’s fringe shares the appearance, postcode and a virtually identical menu featuring hand-pulled [...]

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Silk Road Chinese Halal Restaurant – Haymarket

5 June 2010 Chinatown
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“What’s with the plastic grapes?” …… asks Mr K as we enter the restaurant with its intensely-coloured wall murals depicting arid plains and camels under a leafy arbour of fruiting grape vines. It seems one can identify a Uighurian/Xinjiang restaurant in Sydney’s Chinatown by doing a bit of grape-spotting and it appears we have several to choose [...]

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Uighur Cuisine – Haymarket

16 May 2010 Chinatown
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My first taste of Uighurian food when I was in Yiwu, China on my recent work trip made me hungry for more of this unique cuisine from the Xinjiang province in the country’s remote western frontier. There are a few restaurants around Chinatown specialising in this cuisine, all of which I have put on my wishlist. [...]

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Cafe Joy – Haymarket

8 April 2010 Chinatown
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There’s a place just behind the Burlington Centre that people just don’t seem to know about, or maybe they just never get there. This bright and empty-every-time-I-walk-past-it restaurant has had me curious for a couple of years now so, after having my hair snipped around the corner from it recently, I decided to take the plunge. The [...]

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Chinese Noodle Restaurant – Chinatown

14 December 2009 Chinatown
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Mr K. has a craving for DIY duck pancakes at home so we decided to catch the train into Central to pick up a duck from our usual vendor on Thomas Street, as well as a couple of packets of pancakes, jar of Hoi Sin, the rest we had at home. Simple. Thanks to the [...]

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