Westlake Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Sydney

Service was fast, the bloke taking my order was nice and friendly but the food.......horrid. Ordered sweet and sour pork. When it came out I thought awesome cooked and bagged up how I like it. The sauce was in a separate container from the pork so the pork could be kept crispy. That's where the good part ended. The pork batter tasted like salt. I love salt. I add salt to almost everything. I'll eat straight Vegemite. This pork had too much salt to enjoy it. The sauce as great as it looked had zero flavour. Might as well been red coloured water. For $16 you would like to be able to eat the meal even if you didn't like it but the pork pieces were half fat. So between the salty batter, flavourless sauce and bits of fatty pork I ate about 6 pieces and gave up and went to bed. First and last try...

There is something very mystical about this place. The name of the restaurant itself from outside is just "Restaurant". The first time I ate here I found the food very salty but tasty nonetheless. What developed over the next couple of occasions was an addiction to the food from an unknown cause. I brought my friend here once to show him the phenomenon. He too found the food very average but later developed an addiction to the salt and high MSG. From that first day on wards i have always craved this food whilst hungover and can really not give a negative review cause it keeps me coming back.

Try the green chicken curry - but only if you want a strange...

i took my wife to this restaurant 22 yrs ago for our 1st date. We have eaten there at least 8 times a yr, ive taken our friends and our families. Unfortunately tonight was the last time. We ordered our entrees and drinks and it arrived within 20 minutes but the main hadnt arrived after 1 hour 35 minutes. I asked the waiter what was going on and he went back to check. He looked on the board, out the back then at the board again, so i got up and said, look you have obviously lost our order and i have waited long enough. So i paid and left. I understand they have takeaway and other people in the restaurant but get more staff and...