Traditional Cantonese Taste Burwood — Restaurant in Sydney

We got beef and pork rice roll, chicken and mushroom claypot rice, beef brisket wonton noodles. This is definitely not authentically canto but it is authentically Chinese. I suspect they are from a neighbouring region near canto.

Rice roll is quite good, the skin is thin and slippery enough although uneven in some places. What’s none traditional is their filling is seasoned and the soy sauce they use has a strange taste fragrance. But the texture of the rice rolls would trump all that. Would still recommend.

Claypot rice is $20 which is quite pricey for the amount of topping you got (5 tiny pieces of chicken with bones and about 30g of mushroom). The chicken bones in themselves are not an issue. Meat around the bone tend to taste better. The issue is that the chicken pieces are specifically all large bone joints (think the middle joint of the chicken wings so the pieces are at least 50% bones. Rice itself is well cooked and the sides are appropriately crispy but generally lack flavour. Mushroom has no flavor. Chicken has a traditional soy taste with a strange fragrance and after taste. Would NOT recommend.

As for the noodle, it’s beef brisket although the menu says beef tenderloin in the English translation. The store only serves rice noodles various thickness, no wheat noodles. The pork wonton has a strong cooking wine after taste. Similar to the rest of the dishes, the beef brisket and the soup has a strange fragrance. The spices they use in here is quite heavy handed and almost resembles bak ku teh. This dish meets expectation.

For all the ppl complaining about service, this is quite typical in most Asian establishments, I wouldn’t say they are rude. They are just not hospitable. They do everything right and promptly, just no over the top small talk and customer is god mentality.

The shop is worth a visit only for the...

CANTONESE COMFORT FOOD: Steamed Rice Rolls, Congee + more

Traditional Cantonese Taste, Eastwood

I've always, always loved eating Cheung fun at dim sum restaurants (or 'yum cha' as we more commonly refer to it in Aus). Seeing the lady come around with the trolley and lift the metal lid to uncover a beautiful plate of soft, silky smooth steamed rice rolls with prawn or BBQ pork inside, and then graciously pouring a delectable sweet soy sauce on top... UGH. So good, every time.

If you look into it a little bit deeper, Cheung fun isn't just a yum cha thing. It's a very common street food in Hong Kong, Guangdong and other southern regions of China. You can find them with all sorts of meat or vegetable fillings, or sometimes no fillings at all but rather topped with peanut sauce, hoisin sauce and sesame seeds. Traditional Cantonese Taste was recommended to me as the best place to eat Cheung fun in Sydney. It's a small restaurant hidden in an Eastwood plaza and it gets quite busy during lunch hour. You'll see both young and old customers here - a good cheung fun transcends generations, you see. We ordered the prawn, the beef and egg, and the pork with dried cordyceps flower rice rolls. The rolls were thick, soft like clouds, and caught onto the sauce well as they were pulled up. Texture as per the video

I'd highly recommend trying congee here too. To my own surprise, I actually enjoyed our pork offal congee more than the rice rolls. It's flippin' brilliant. The pork flavor is strong. The offal inside is perfectly cooked and bouncy on the bite. This congee was extremely comforting and I daresay it's the best congee I've had in recent memory! They also do other Cantonese street staples like pork offal soup, noodles and fried dough sticks. Stick with the cheung fun and the congee here though and...

2.5 stars - sorry but this is fair for the inconveniences. Firstly the positives, their cheung fun (rice rolls) are the standout. Absolutely delicious, soft, freshly made and juicy when drizzled with the extra soy sauce provided - you need the extra sauce otherwise it is rather bland! Recommend to come in for a snack or breakfast. Negatives include - clay pot meals were below average, tasteless and not worth the price or the 20mins wait. Other dishes..? Well everything else we tried to order was not available on a Sunday around 11:30am (all stir fried rice noodle dishes and youtiao which is the deep fried bread wasn’t available). Couldn’t pay by card as their machine wasn’t working. No table water available. No forks available which was very inconvenient for our Asian but Aussie born chopsticks challenged kids - they’re learning. My point is a lot of kids are going to find it difficult to eat up the food which would mean the parents have extra work to do (and parents don’t need the extra work.. yikes..!!) Would I come back for the Cheung fun.. yes! Would I bother with anything else… no! All in all quite expensive for what you do get and I would need to bring forks from home until my kids get better with chopsticks or I come without them. ...