Shanghai Memory, Ashfield
V and I had dinner last Sunday at the ever-growing Little Shanghai that is Ashfield’s Liverpool Street. Not only are there a handful of Shanghainese restaurants opposite and adjacent to each other here, the recent introduction of Shanghai Memory marks three dumpling places next to each other (on one side of these three is another...
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,...
Din Tai Fung at Westfield Sydney
It’s always a pleasure to have lunch with L. For our slightly-better-than-quarterly meet up, I suggested the newly opened Din Tai Fung at the Westfield in Pitt Street Mall. We’d come here a couple of lunches prior, to try out Justin North’s Charlie and Co Burgers. Since that visit a few months ago, the Westfield...
