07 November 2013

East Ocean Food Stall ~ Chinese - Chinatown Markets

Every Friday night Chinatown's Dixon Street Mall becomes a super fun, squishy, just-like-Asia night market. One of Sydney's more revered Chinese restaurants, East Ocean, has a stall peddling restaurant quality dumplings and fried snackages.

05 November 2013

Bamboo Village BBQ Fish ~ Chinese - Chinatown


Ascend up from the bustle of Dixon St to try some BBQ fish that will give you a chilli kick all the way back down the stairs.


04 November 2013

Summer in Sapporo Part Two - Depachika feasts, Otaru and tofu skins

Our main inspiration to head north in Japan was the food. Different food. Seafood. Dairy. Potatoes. We found a big small town that turned our ideas about Japanese food upside down.

31 October 2013

Vincent BBQ and Chinese ~ Pittsway Arcade Food Court, CBD

Going to a new food court is a special moment in the life of our Street Food blog. We recently ventured into the Pittsway Arcade and came up trumps with some new finds and favourites.

30 October 2013

Summer in Sapporo Part One - Susukino streets, Cheeza and Chu Hi

Sapporo in Japan's cold north is a popular winter destination attracting tourists worldwide for world class skiing and the ice sculpture festival. So we go in summer...

24 October 2013

Poplar Central Asian Cuisine ~ Haymarket

How can a plate of plain noodles or munching on a lamb bone be so good? Poplar Central Asian Cuisine with dishes from Mongolia, China and across to the 'stans shows there can be happiness in the simplest of meals.

22 October 2013

Ria Sari Indonesian Padang Takeway ~ Randwick

Ria Sari is one of Sydney's last great ye olde hole-in-the-wall joints.

[Updated July, 2017]

18 October 2013

Supermarkets of Mystery ~ Turkish Pistachio Pudding - Auburn

Our supermarkets of mystery journey takes us to Auburn this week for a mean and green pistachio pudding mix.

17 October 2013

What We Learnt About Ramen in Sapporo & Tokyo

We constantly bleat about how we've been eating ramen for years yet know nothing about the stuff. So we spent a bit of time on our recent Japan trip trying to reset our tastebuds and expand our knowledge. All we learnt was our heads are up our arses.

15 October 2013

Mekong Eating House ~ Vietnamese - Dixon House Food Court [CLOSED]


A new addition to the Dixon House Food Court, Mekong Eating House fills out the food court culinary profile with some Vietnamese options.

[CLOSED NOVEMBER 2014]

10 October 2013

Yum Cha at King's Seafood Restaurant ~ Chinese - Eastwood

King's Seafood in Restaurant in Eastwood is rowdy and joyous at yum cha time. The service is quick and easy, and the food is, well, it's yum cha.

08 October 2013

Ramen Sun Sun ~ Japanese - Crow's Nest

We make a couple of visits to a joint we haven't been to in since the last century. Is it as good as we remember?

05 October 2013

03 October 2013

Penang Kitchen ~ Malaysian - City/Chinatown Fringe


With food court prices and a simple upstairs setting, this Malaysian offers a greatest hits package of dishes and a mean pandan waffle.

01 October 2013

Breakfast in Sapporo, Japan - Or How We Learnt Not to Hate Natto

A simple soba noodle soup is one of our most favourite breakfasts of all time. Will natto be a new contender to hold a place in our hearts?

26 September 2013

Dish of the Month - Mr September - Lump Rice from Sri Lankan Food Bar, Homebush

Brains permitting, we present a favourite dish each month to highlight the extra special feeds that get buried amongst our pile of posts.

24 September 2013

Miso ~ Japanese - World Square, City

Miso blipped on our food-nerd radar when we saw the menu headlining with tonkatsu: crisp, golden deep fried pork fillets.

20 September 2013

Sapporo Sweeties ~ Hokkaido, Japan

We only had a few days in Sapporo so we concentrated our dessert action on the famous Hokkaido cheesecake, but we took a bunch of photos of the cakes that got away.

19 September 2013

Taste Legend ~ Chinese - Ultimo / Broadway

Noodle Noodles Taste Legend in the sunny square off Mountain St is a gem of a Chinese joint in Broadway/Ultimo.

16 September 2013

Buldog Premium Hot Dog Bar ~ Korean/Western - Strathfield [CLOSED]

There's at least a couple of joints in our home turf of Newtown that do hotdogs, but we're not interested, not one bit. Nor does the whole Americana dude food thing raise a collective eyebrow of interest. Yet when a Korean hotdog joint opens in Strathfield we're all over it. We don't know why. [Closed May 2014]

Falling in love with Newtown - again

It often takes some time away to appreciate the things you see everyday. We love living in Newtown and here's our love letter.

12 September 2013

Pho TK ~ Vietnamese - Market City, Chinatown

We must admit it was Luke Nguyen who put us onto Pho TK in one of those 'secret spot' articles in the Sydney Morning Herald. For once, it was refreshing to see something different suggested from the usual suspects trotted out time and again. Cheers for the new find, Luke.

11 September 2013

Asia Eater - A new Asian food magazine review

Street Food looks at a new magazine Asia Eater, inspiring our favourite things - travel and eating.

10 September 2013

2013 Gallipoli Mosque Open Day ~ Auburn

You've probably passed it on the train commuting to work or driving by to eat in Auburn. We take a rare look inside the beautiful Gallipoli Mosque in Auburn at its annual Open Day.

06 September 2013

Travel Takeaways - Japan ~ Beer flavoured chocolate, green tea Kit Kats and sake

Beer flavoured chocolate, BBQ lamb flavoured caramels, green tea kit kats and sake. Our travel takeaways from Japan make returning home a little easier.

03 September 2013

Taipei Chef ~ Taiwanese - Artarmon

We are lucky to have many great Taiwanese restaurants in Sydney these days, but Taipei Chef is just that extra bit special, definitely worth a trip across town for.