14 goodfood TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2016 taste of asia advertising feature Takeatourof Asia without leaving town When it comes to the first restaurants to introduce yum cha to Sydney.David adheres Asian cuisine, to his now-retired mum’s recipes Sydneysiders are and says dishes such as salt and spoilt for choice, pepper squid, beef and black bean writes Carla Grossetti. sauce and gow gee remain perennial crowd-pleasers. hen it comes to 507 Rocky Point Rd, Sans Souci, enjoying Asian 9529 3553. cuisine, Sydneysiders Ware spoilt for choice. GOOD LUCK CHINESE stuffed with pork mince and Instead, he plays with the kick and perform a puja to the Hindu deity From low-key eateries serving RESTAURANT are also popular ($2.20 per one). fire of chilli with dishes such as the Ganesh. Chef Bimal Kumar cooks classic Chinese dishes, to a 182 Liverpool Rd, Enfield, prawn and okra ,which has a peasant cuisine from the villages of hawker-style hub and high-end You will have to get your pointy 9747 4625. whisper of spice, and the palak India and Sri Lanka with panache: Indian, here are a few Asian elbows out to get a table during patta chaat, which has been on the try sesame-crusted okra, cumin restaurants you should try. peak hour at this Enfield ABHI’S menu since Abhi’s opened. and burnt chilli salt and Goan pork institution. Although the decor is a Abhi’s opened its doors in 1990 163 Concord Rd, North belly curry with coconut milk, HOUSE OF CHOW tad dated, you will be transported with a menu that was ahead of its Strathfield, 9743 3061, cashews, and The Sans Souci stalwart remains back to your childhood to that time. More than two decades on, abhisindian.com.au . Amma’s daal has also unchanged since 1977,which is how special occasion when your Dad chef Kumar Mahadevan’s modest travelled well. long the Lee family have been proudly ordered the Peking duck dining room still hums with people INDU Reason enough for a visit is that involved with the under-the-radar with a mountain of pancakes. Here, travelling from all over Sydney to Forget your obsession with your Indu supports owner Dr Sam restaurant. David Lee, who is now it’s still the duck that pulls the enjoy his contemporary take on the local slap-up curry house. Now Prince’s initiative to assist women head chef at the restaurant, says crowds (note: it costs $70, must be southern Indian cuisine he grew practice your Bollywood moves in rural villages in Sri Lanka. his mother Kwai Yungmigrated to pre-ordered, includes 10 pancakes up with. and dance past the corporate Basement, 350 George St (enter Australia from China to make gow and is enough to feed four people). Mahadevan is not bound by any wallahs into this oh-so-glam Indian off Angel Place), Sydney.9233 gee at The Mandarin Club, one of The Chinese sher ping pancakes rigid adherence to tradition. eatery that may prompt you to 0158, indudining.com.au

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From left: Abhi’s tandoori kingfish with mung dal and grape salad; Indu’s pumpkin and green mango curry; Lazy Suzie’s spicy chicken kerabu salad; Lazy Suzie share-plates.

rice, Hainan style and the juicy fried boneless chicken with nahm jim jeow. 155 Victoria St, Pott’s Point, 9240 3000, merivale.com.au/msgs LOTUS THE GALERIES What better way to finish than at the bar at Lotus The Galeries where Tiffany Jones has just come on board as head chef. Jones is not just flipping chicken ribs at Bang Luck or slow- restaurant is named after the Asian flavours on their head: she’s -TIAM SPICE cooked brisket and tendon at Hong revolving piece of furniture MS G’s done a front somersault with three ALLEY Kong Diner.In addition to this designed to bring dishes within As the executive chef of Merivale full twists with options such as four-part hawker hub, where easy reach: Lazy Suzie is all about restaurants Ms G’s and Mr Wong, jasmine tea bavarois with poached A new generation of Asian- patrons nosh on food around the sharing and Tan is the master of Dan Hong is one of the next-gen apple, compressed apple, matcha Australian chefs are busy proving $10 price point, you can take your making Malay food accessible. Australian chefs who cleared a sponge, apple cider jelly and a themselves on the CBD periphery pick from a pinwheel of pop-ups. Have your chopsticks at the course for the ascendancy of Asian burnt vanilla crisp. The yuzu in the creative hub that is The alley behind Kensington St, ready for the with fusion cuisine in Sydney. brulee with coconut , salted Chippendale (the C is silent). Chippendale, ,pork belly Like Hong himself, Ms G’s is fun white chocolate, coconut ice cream Here, the food and the fit-out are kensingtonstreet.com.au skewers and coconut-spiced and irreverent and embraces and yuzu paper is equally a contemporary take on Asian chicken. No, the tables are not global influences while staying true exquisite. Dumpling lovers should street food culture. Satisfy your LAZY SUZIE fitted with timber turntables, but to Asian flavours. While versions of try the fire-cracker macaron with cravings at the outdoor eat street Malaysian food has had a there is a nod to the lazy Susan in Hong’s mini banh mi have popped pineapple jelly. with a mod take on makeover in Sydney thanks to the the form of a neon-lit sculpture up all over town, the happy crowds Level 1, The Galeries, 500 George chicken at Alex Lee Kitchen, an creative efforts of chefs such as suspended from the ceiling. are also drawn to this beautiful and St, Sydney,9267 3699, iced and fried on sticks Zachary Tan (of Devon Cafe and 78 Stanley St, Darlinghurst, boisterous establishment for the lotusrestaurant.com.au/ at Old Jim Kee, papaya salad with Devon on Danks). Fitting that the instagram.com/lazysuziesydney fiendishly addictive chicken fried the-galeries/

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