最牛火锅 Teochew Beef Hotpot — Restaurant in Sydney

One of our family traditions is to try out new resto after our Sunday mass... and since its been raining for days now we just randomly walked in to this restaurant (i dont know its name n i cant read chinese) after seeing it was full of people that seemingly enjoying their hot pot.

The server that greeted us was very hospitable and courteously smiling the entire time albeit she could hardly speak english so my charade skills came handy.

The menu were in chinese so we only looked at photos and the food on other peoples tables. We just pointed at photos and its amazing how a thumbs up and down can break language barriers.

Ms friendly waitress later on scanned the menu in chinese using her phone which then got translated to English n helped us to at least understand what we were ordering.

Ok..so the food... we ordered beef based soup, diff parts of beef which we pretty much just relied on the server's recommendations, then we added sides of noodles and corn. We wanted to order more but werent sure what we were ordering and the portion so we just stuck to 2 sides.

The meats fresh and tender, the soup is flavoursome, the corns plump and sweet.... they gave soy sauce and peanut sauce that tasted like it had a hint of worcestershire sauce.

Its a no frills place but the old chinese hot pot experience and the friendly staff make this resto a good one to try....but i just cant tell you its name bec everything there was in Chinese writing... i guess thats how ull know...

Overall: 6/7 Truly a no frills Chinese beef hotpot restaurant. Perhaps one of the least accommodating restaurants I’ve ever been to for non-Chinese people, but you can definitely make it work if you try hard enough - they have lots photos on the wall for you to point to. CASH OR WECHAT PAY ONLY!!

It’s also super easy to order just a set menu and let the food roll in. You likely won’t have any idea what you’re ordering, but it’ll be delicious. They recently upgraded their menu to have a lot more pictures so it’s… better. Still, the soup is delicious and authentic (you can see the beef chunks they used to make it still). All the portions are generous and high quality - only cooking them for ~30s is enough.

Refer to pictures for some indication of what we good and what was good… we liked the Chuck cuts and the oyster blade surprisingly.

Would not recommend their beef casserole congee actually - better to order a different one. The beef one just tastes like the soup and rice… which you already have easy access to.

For set menus, recommend you order one tier lower than it recommends, it’s a lot of food if you’re not all big eaters. E.g., party of 5, order the...

3 Stars for good old time's sake.

Their quality control and service both declined significantly since a few years ago. In the last two times I was here, rotten vegies were served. The waitress was quite offended when we mentioned this and requested a change over of the soup and contents. She refused to replace the content at first and we had to engage the owner to right their wrong.

Well as a resturant operator you should work on your quality control instead of blaming customers for pointing if out. Who wouldn't want a seamless dining experience without all these hustle?

Overall the food is still good otherwise, but I'm no longer a fan of...