Sunflower Taiwanese Gourmet — Restaurant in Sydney

Cucumber with Minced Garlic Salad: 5/5 best I've ever had?! Perfectly tangy, salty, sweet and refreshing, with the surprisingly strongest notes of sesame oil ever -- the texture of the cucumber strips tender, yet wonderfully crisp. How?! Would definitely get again (also featured carrots) Soy-Stewed Pork Belly Rice: 4.5/5 fragrant, the pork fat melty. Rice was soft and pleasant, with actual braised soy sauce on it thankfully to add flavour, and the dish was rounded out with pickled mustard and hard-boiled egg Zhajiangmian: 4/5 definitely a less heavy version of the dish, in terms of serving size as well as topping; pork mince was mixed quite liberally with carrot cubes, cucumber strips and strangely, edamame beans. Noodles were fine but not particularly distinctive overall decent, but not as tasty as it's known to be (especially at this restaurant, where apparently years ago it was better) Oyster Omelette: 4.5~5/5 best if not tied best with Hungry Paulie for this classic's deliciousness! Texture and taste most authentic and closest to that of Taiwan's, with bouncy tapioca starch messily mixed with substantial egg, juicy plump oysters, white cabbage, and the right accompanying pink sauce.

Conclusion: An entire tier above Sunflower's Haymarket branch somehow?! (I can't believe there can be such a difference. Never visiting Haymarket's again.) Maybe Broadway's Dandan noodles would actually be legitimate -- I'd be willing to come back to find out, and to try...

Sunflower was my all-time favourite Taiwanese restaurant when the first time I came to study in Sydney. I love their beef noodle soup and other bento dishes. They were delicious and made me feel at home.

Recently I went to the restaurant again. I ordered beef steak and sizzling hot plate noodles for dine-in and also a garlic pork pottage with rice for takeaway.

When I walked into the restaurant, was full of greasy cooking odour, and there was no fan to get the smell out of the restaurant. This means everyone came in need to enjoy their food with the greasy smell all the time.

I was sitting at a “three-seat” table and looking at the menu. The staff was kind of rude and asked me to move to a two-seat table, cuz there were three new customers walked in. But guess what, only two people ordered food and the three-seat table was too small to put the third meal. And I was ordering two portions of food by myself. So there was no point in asking me to move in the first place. They could just ask me to give them an extra chair.

For the steak, it’s not very fresh (I saw the steak before it cooked when I paid for my order, it looks like being in the fridge for many days). Didn’t taste good as well. But I like noodles, it tastes perfect with the sauce. I am not a fan of the broccoli that came with the steak, it tasted funny so I didn’t finish it.

Overall, I didn’t enjoy my dine-in experience in this restaurant lately. But I would order takeaways for other...

Love this little eatery, have been coming for years and happy to see it reopen (so I can get some of that delicious chilli chicken again).

Change in menu is a bit of a let down for me, I can see why they've done it and in general it is "better" but there was just something so rustic about the old plateful with rice, cooked veg, fresh veg and the meat all in one - but, not so much of a let down to take a star of, guess I have to get with the times and the more stylish presentation.

Have tried a fair bit of the menu and many favorites, always delights and my partner seems pretty keen to come too after introducing them to the place so they must be pretty happy about the food too - usually they tend to pick the "Instagram trendy" places that are fancy looking but lacking when it comes to the important part, the food, so glad I e converted them to at least...