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Sydney’s new Japanese cafe, where your cutlery is a piece of string

Daifuku Store specialises in the vault-cracking delight of splitting open mochi to reveal their sweet fillings.

  • Lee Tran Lam
The gamjatang soup is pretty much the only menu item at Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang.

This slow-simmered Korean pork bone soup is best split with friends

Even the small size of gamjatang – priced at $40 – feeds two to three people, or go the large for $70 for groups of four or more.

  • David Matthews
Stairway to Heaven.

On omakase restaurant in Redfern that turns dinner into a show

There’s a new rendition of Stairway to Heaven. You’ll find it at R by Raita Noda, a 15-seat Japanese fine diner on Redfern’s Wunderlich Lane.

  • Erina Starkey

Rockpool team to open restaurant serving only steak frites

Plus a salad and cheesecake tart, making it arguably Sydney’s smallest menu.

  • Scott Bolles
Shanghai Chinese is a soft-lit capsule of longevity symbols, floral wallpaper and red lanterns.
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This old-school regional Chinese restaurant is a delicious time-warp to the 1970s

Prawn toast, fried ice-cream and red lanterns abound at a Southern Highlands institution still going strong after 50 years.

  • Callan Boys
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The dakdoritang, a signature featuring aged kimchi, is pure comfort.
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This popular soup chain has 95 sites in Korea. Now its first global outpost is in Sydney

Since opening in February at the former BBQ King site, the line has hardly let up at Jiho Hanbang Samgyetang, which is known for its restorative ginseng and chicken soup. 

  • David Matthews
The Alexandria premises of Pino’s Vino e Cucina in its original.

Restaurateurs locked in ‘custody battle’ over venue name

The sale of a popular Italian restaurant in Alexandria has prompted a stoush over the use of its moniker.

  • Scott Bolles
The sauce section at Eastwood Mart.

This Eastwood mart has all your condiment needs covered

The specialty grocer stocks bulk kimchi, noodles, seaweed and fresh vegetables and even has its own “sauce corner”.

  • David Matthews
Akti’s dining room.

Hellenika chef heads up new Greek restaurant on the wharf

Akti, meaning coast in Greek, is your port of call for charcoal-grilled kontosouvli skewers and bubbling saganaki on the Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf.

  • Erina Starkey

The ‘most famous tart in the world’ is the solo star of the show at this Hurstville patisserie

The pasteis de nata at Lusinata may not come with fancy toppings but you can match these “tiny scorched suns” with Portuguese dessert wines and cherry liqueur.

  • Lenny Ann Low

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