MAMAK
Read moreMamak refers to the stalls found in Malaysia, serving stews, vegetables, fried fish etc. Mamak offers the opportunity to see two of the most impressive cooking shows: the making of teh tarik and roti canai. Teh tarik is a sweet milk tea, which is spilled from one pot to another by pulling it almost a meter long through the air. The roti canai is a dough that is kneaded and then turned from one hand to the other so that it becomes a huge circle of thin dough before being toasted on a pan.
THAI RIFFIC
Read moreThai Riffic is a Thai restaurant chain, so there are several in Sydney, including Cronulla and North Sydney. However, this address in Newtown is our favorite. The dishes are very good and spicy. The interior decoration is sumptuous, and the outdoor courtyard is very pleasant on the summer evenings.
ICHIOKU JAPANESE TEPPANYAKI
Read moreA warm atmosphere. The chef devant your dishes, on a large grill grill, before playing with you…
SUSHI HUB POTTS POINT
Read moreA small Japanese restaurant in the heart of Kings Cross, offering a pleasant break in the middle of this busy district. It's part of a chain that you'll find elsewhere in the city. Its "takeaway" stand gives access to the pleasant dining room, where you can sit either at a table or at the counter. In the latter case, you're seated in front of a conveyor belt on which a whole assortment of Asian dishes is paraded, with the color of the dish indicating the price. It's fun, fairly inexpensive and very tempting...
DIXON STREET FOOD COURT
Read moreNicknamed "small Asia" in Sydney, it is not a restaurant but the main, pedestrian and shady street of Chinatown, where a multitude of dishes offer you different dishes from almost all Asian countries. Clients, mainly immigrants but also Australians or Asians, are also a guarantee of quality. We eat well for cheap with a very wide variety of ingredients. A Malaysian laksa assam, the kway kway Singapore, a soup tom khar hai Thai, etc. This is not the choice that is missing.
THE MALAYA
Read moreWhen it opened in the 1960s, the Malaya was renowned for its very special Malaysian cuisine, Nyonya, a spicy dish typical of the famous city of Malacca. Today, all the region's specialties are served here, from beef redang to laksa curry and char kway teow. Waiters like to recommendotak otak, a kind of fish pate spiced with chilli and wrapped in banana leaves. Let their advice inspire you to discover this sumptuous cuisine.
MANLY THAI GOURMET
Read moreA nice address for a very inexpensive lunch in Manly. The restaurant is almost hidden away, on the 1st floor above the Alice Dumpling Bar restaurant, but it's well known among locals, who flock there to enjoy the AU$12 lunch special. For this unbeatable price, you can enjoy pad thai, green or red curry, accompanied by your choice of tofu, chicken or beef. The restaurant boasts a terrace with a magnificent view of Manly beach. What's more, the quantities served are quite gargantuan!