Shanghai Night, Ashfield
V and I met up with J and T a while back for some dumplings. They’d never tried the cheap-and-cheerful dumplings at Ashfield so we were more than happy to organise a time to meet up. Ashfield, thanks to its constellation of Chinese restaurants and shops that make up Little Shanghai, had been our destination...
New Shanghai Restaurant, Chatswood Chase
Oh, Chatswood… you’re like a nigh unrecognisable old friend, oh Chinatown of the North; so familiar but different… we’ve both moved on. You weren’t my first Chinatown; nay, Hurstville was first to claim my stomach. Then, I unfaithfully visited Chinatown in the city but the infidelity was mutual: City Chinatown was every man’s Chinatown. Then...
Taste of Shanghai, Ashfield
There are least three Shanghainese restaurants of note in Ashfield: Shanghai Night, New Shanghai and the newer Taste of Shanghai. There are certainly others but the former two are the ones that most people I know are aware of when Ashfield’s Little Shanghai is uttered. Taste of Shanghai had always seemed like the flashy outsider,...
