A Bowl Of Noodles - Haymarket — Restaurant in Sydney

I tried stir-fried shredded eel noodles and I thought I wouldn’t like them but it has really charmed me 🤤. The perfect balance of sweetness and saltiness of this dish is next level🤤. I personally not a fan of eel because of how slippery its texture is. But their eels are perfectly marinated and taken off the slippery texture!! Instead, the eels are very soft and tender. Plus the fact that it is shredded, has given us a chance to mix them into the al dente noodles with their sauce! Another one is their hot item — Yellow croaker soup noodles. It is a must have of Shanghai cuisine. The fish broth was astonishing, very rich flavour in fish but not overwhelming. The fish itself was tender, juicy and definitely not too fishy🤤.

So for the side dishes, I personally LOVE Shanghai sticky rice ball😍.A sticky rice ball filled Chinese fried dough, pork floss, and pickled vegetable. And they also let you choose to have salty egg yolk in it, make sure you do add them in🥰. However the fried dough was quite big, which makes us hard to bite on it in one go🤣.

☹️The pan fried pork buns and soup dumplings didn’t surprise me which makes me a little bit disappointed. So I would recommend their noodles more!

The staff was extremely nice to me and tried to recommend their...

Fried rice cakes topped with a golden-crumbed pork chop ($18.80) in a sticky brown savoury sauce is widely consumed in Shanghai. It’s a house speciality at A Bowl of Noodles, a small Shanghainese restaurant you’ll find at the Central Station end of George Street. Loops of white rope dangling from blonde wood rafters give the suggestion of shop awnings, creating a street market vibe. Two rows of tables, one with a long green banquette, run down the long narrow store. A brightly coloured chalkboard depicts the specialties like mapo tofu and soya bean milk, situating them with familiar skyline shape of the Oriental Pearl Radio & Television Tower.

Arriving in a pool of pumpkin sauce, spinach-topped fingers of handmade tofu ($18.90) are deliciously gooey inside with crisp golden edges. Or you can eat the namesake soup noodles: perhaps as spicy pork mince with a tasty braised egg ($15.80) and a side of boiled bok choy ($3) for some greenery. Mix it all up and away you go! Inexpensive, friendly and tasty: perfect for those craving a little taste of the comfort food...

i’ve never tried shanghainese food before but boy they exceeded my expectations 🤤 they were comforting and had familiar taste as i remember my childhood 🫣 there were no weird tastes which shocked me 😅

they ship all their ingredients from shanghai and prepare their food freshly like the tofu and buns which are made in-house 🤩

stir fried shredded eel shallot oil noodles ($24.9) ✅ I WAS SUS at first cuz i thought it’d be fishy but ordered it anyways since it’s their specialty IM GLAD I DID sooo umami (PRO TIP change to shallot oil noodles u wont regret)

fried pork chop with rice cake ($19.9) ✅ love pork chop, love rice cake 🫶 all fried and combined? SAY LESS

handmade tofu with spinach in pumpkin sauce ($18.9) soft and jiggly but wish there was more flavour

braised pork belly in dark soy sauce ($28.9) 🌟 big portion of fatty and juicy pieces of well season pork belly 🤤 i felt so guilty eating a lot of this .. worth it tho lol

pan fried pork buns ($11.8) crispy at the bottom, meat has good flavour but needs more soup so...