New Shanghai. Chatswood

This time we going to treat our self to some pastry goodness "Dumplings" soft or crispy on the outside and burst of juiciness in the inside. New Shanghai at Chatswood (Lemon Grove) they delivers all that and with a price that wont put a hole in your wallet or purse. there is two New Shanghai at Chatswood, one is at the Chatswood Chase shopping center and the other is at Lemon grove. We prefer the lemon grove one cos its just more casual and the tree is free. But if your are looking for sophistication and something more formal than the on a Chatswood chase is for you or simply try both to see which one rocks your boat.

Usually there are a lot of people waiting for a table, but we came at the right time, we got seated right away. there are many dishes in the menu to select from, noodles varieties, dumplings that are pan fried,deep fried, steamed or in soup,stir Fry's, cold dishes,soups and many more.

But we knew what we wanted, we ordered the restaurants famous pan fried dumpling, and pan fried buns, shallot pancakes and sour and spicy noodle soup. there is one more dish on the list we really wanted to ordered is the steam xiao long bao but we knew the two of us wont be able to finished all this.

The famous Pan fried Dumplings. $8.80

Shallot Pancake; $4.80

Sour and spicy noodle soup $8.80

Pan fried pork buns; $8.80

These are the Xiao Long Bao we would like to order

All these cost us in total $31.20 that a really good price for the amount we get and number of dishes we ordered. For a delicious meal and on that leave you going with a satisfied full stomach and a wallet with change and money left what more can we ask.


New Shanghai Chinese Restaurant
Lemon Grove Shopping Centre
Shop 20, 427-441 Victoria Avenue
Chatswood, Sydney

Menya. China Town

Friday night dinner time!,I've been looking forward to go the one of my favourite Japanese Ramen restaurants;Menya which is located in china town. Their soup here are sensational, and it consist of four variation of Tonkotsu soup base ( pork bone soup). The different soup based is up to the customer to choose to form the basis of flavour for their Ramen(noodles) and caters to different taste buds.

1)Menya Tonkotsu - made by simmering selected pork bones for more than 10 hours with fresh vegetables to enhance the flovors, the result is a rich creamy white soup.

2) Shoyu Tonkotsu (soy based tonkotsu soup) - combing quality soy sauce with seafood flavours to the pork bone soup creating a harmony of flavours. it is the most popular and traditional soup in Japan.

3) Miso Tonkotsu (miso based tonkotsu soup) with the use of the finest miso paste, rang of spices and seafood flavours that collaborated with the pork bone soup.

4) Wafu Tonkotsu (seafood soup and tonkotsu soup) a seafood based soup that combines bonito flakes and kelp seaweeds to the pork bone soup to make it light but strong, enhancing the flavours.

We decided to go for the popular one "Shoyu Tonkotsu" soup based for our ramen. ordering the Ni-tamago ramen(shoyu tonkotsu) and the Tom-toro ramen(roasted pork). We have a strategy in relation to the topping of the ramens, the Ni-tamago has boil eggs as its topping (perpare with a special sauce and style) and the Tom-toro has roasted pork for its topping. so we would share half to each other to have more of a variety:)

Ton-toro Ramen - $11.90

Ton-toro Ramen- close up

 Also you can up grade the size of your noodle from medium, large,extra large or mega to cater for all kind of appetite. Upgrade are subjected to extra charge.

Ni-Tamago Ramen -$10.90

close up

Its was around 6:40 pm and already there were a lot of people sited and eating, we waited for 1around 10mins to be sited (but its worth waiting for) . The setting of the restaurant is quite small, so to save space there is a large communal table. So if you are looking for a romantic and private restaurant this is not for you.

Menya China town
Shop TG8,8 Quay Street, Haymarket  NSW 2000
Tel : 02 9212 1020
www.menya.com.au