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Egg and vegetable kottu roti.
13.5/20

Don’t miss the ‘chopped roti’ dish at this Sri Lankan eatery in western Sydney

Chef Ceylon’s kottu roti crackles with deep-fried curry leaves and coconut shreds.

  • Lee Tran Lam
Splitting a matcha flavoured daifuku with a piece of string at Sydney Daifuku Store.

‘Vault-cracking delight’: Split your mochi with a piece of string at this hidden Japanese cafe

Sydney Daifuku Store’s filled sweets and Comission Coffee’s drinks will cure your wish-I-was-in-Japan blues.

  • 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
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Shanghai Chinese is a soft-lit capsule of longevity symbols, floral wallpaper and red lanterns.
14/20

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.

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The dakdoritang, a signature featuring aged kimchi, is pure comfort.
14/20

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

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/topic/sydney-fp5