Hurstville Chinese

Seated upstairs as it was a private function. Service was OK although they forgot to get us juice when we asked for it. Not much of an ambience with the cream walls and white light. You don't go to a Chinese restaurant for the ambience or service, you go for the abundance of food and chatter (although we were thankfully away from the main crowd downstairs). Appetiser was pork bone soup with lotus soup. Very standard for a Chinese restaurant and it was a delicate balance between sweet and savory. Followed by scallops topped with glass noodles/vermicelli with a ginger soy/shallot sauce. Scallops were fresh and stomachs were now ready for the main dishes. The mains came out almost at once, covering the lazy Susan. A couple of dishes were questionable as the ingredients and taste were the same except one was a soup and one was a stir fry - bok choy and mushrooms. Deep fried Peking duck and steamed fish were probably the highlight from the mains. Fish fell off the bone. But really the soup and scallops stole the show for the night. Price was reasonable given the mouths that were fed.

Seated upstairs as it was a private function. Service was OK although they forgot to get us juice when we asked for it. Not much of an ambience with the cream walls and white light. You don't go to a Chinese restaurant for the ambience or service, you go for the abundance of food and chatter (although we were thankfully away from the main crowd downstairs). Appetiser was pork bone soup with lotus soup. Very standard for a Chinese restaurant and it was a delicate balance between sweet and savory. Followed by scallops topped with glass noodles/vermicelli with a ginger soy/shallot sauce. Scallops were fresh and stomachs were now ready for the main dishes. The mains came out almost at once, covering the lazy Susan. A couple of dishes were questionable as the ingredients and taste were the same except one was a soup and one was a stir fry - bok choy and mushrooms. Deep fried Peking duck and steamed fish were probably the highlight from the mains. Fish fell off... read more

This place is famous for good quality seafood. One of the best Chinese restaurants I ever had. Very authentic Cantonese food. Must lobster with noodles, or crab with vermicelli noodles.

Probably the best Cantonese food I have ever had in Sydney so far. All the Chinese classics such as steamed oysters, lobster with noodles, steamed fish, crab with vermicelli, fried quail...it's all done really well here. The best dish were the oysters.The oysters are MASSIVE. Biggest and freshest I have ever seen. Although it is more pricey than normal Chinese restaurants in the area, it makes up for quality.

Looks like this is a family favourite for Cantonese dining and I can understand why. Behind their unpretentious 90s-salmon-pink-napkins-charm their food actually delivers. The flavours are clean and authentic, and decent value for less than $30/person. Be wary of language barriers, the menus were 100% traditional script Chinese.