We were excited to find a Chinese restaurant close to home that serves Mermaid Tresses......and…read moreChans did not disappoint. Excellent! GLUTEN FREE: Maureen was very attentive and we appreciated her advice as to how the chef could modify the dishes we chose to accomodate our gluten-free needs MENU selection excellent, including chefs selections and banquet options available. FOOD tender, very tasty, and nicely presented PRICES are rather high though, especially seafood , and many dishes were seasonal quotes. One has to ask and choose carefully. SERVICE: Very good and Maureen a great hostess PARKING: Plenty of parking at rear of Coles, also some street parking available. Easy access for people with mobility restrictions. RESERVATIONS advisable as Chans is very popular. TAKEAWAY menu available.

West Lindfield Chinese is an excellent family style restaurant. We have been coming here for years!…read moreThe menu is pretty standard and the owner is very friendly! The restaurant also has excellent takeaway options. We always get the fried rice and fried dim sims for entry with some sort of beef for a main course. Upon receiving the bill, the owners will dish out some fortune cookies for free. The venue has ample parking outside and is great for birthdays and other occasions. I recommend the san chow bao (pictured). It's full of flavour and is a delicious entree!

Great local restaurant. Food was fresh and beautifully done. The best sweet sour pork in a long…read moretime. The combination short soup wS delicious, as was the beef with vegetables. Service was friendly and quick. Couldnt have asked for a better nite.

Poor quality, was good quality and expensive. Now poor quality and expensive. We did it as…read moretakeaway, maybe dine in is better.

Not quite often find a good place to eat in a small village shopping mall…read more Staff are friendly. Ordered sizzling spicy sampan special (prawn and beef) and stir fried rice noodles with beef. The beef so tender and fresh prawns.

This is one of few Szechuan restaurants I would recommend. I don't read or speak chinese so picking…read morewhat we wanted to eat was a bit hard. We looked at what other customers were eating and chose to have the stir fried dry pot. You get to choose what you want in the dry pot as well as the intensity of the chiili spice. We chose it to be medium in chilli hottness. Another dish we also tried was the Dan Dan noodles as well as the egg plant hot pot. The egg plant hot pot was quite oily and is only for people who can eat that type of food. All in all a great experience and was here tonight to try the dry pot and loved it. Goes well with a glass of shiraz if you ask me. This place allows for BYO or has some beers if you don't want to BYO. Enjoy!!!

Noodles were not hand made, not a problem in itself but they were soft and not chewy. Dumplings…read morewere really bad for the price. Overall lacked flavour, just spicy and salty and oily

Yum!! Consistent, good food and I'll certainly be coming here quite often. The cold bean jelly…read morenoodles are a MUST - so bouncy, yummy, and just the perfect appetiser. You can't go wrong with pork dumplings; they were soaked in garlicky, chilli oil and were fantastic. Be prepared for a wave of heat with the chicken, so spicy but so good. But the highlight was their barramundi. The meat was delicate, soft and super fresh, yet still had a crispy fried skin. It was served hidden under a mountain of woodear mushrooms, potato, veggies, chillies and sichuan peppers. If your like me and love spice, you must experience these fiery Chinese dishes!

Traditional chinese sichuan food, great taste and service.... doesnt get any more traditional then…read morethis....

Food here was pretty good. Service is reasonable. Price is ok. Gets a little busy at times but…read morenever as busy as the other big DimSum restaurant in Westfield. Cash is encouraged and they make it obvious! Hmmm... But if you insist that you do not have any, they will accommodate credit card. I heard the cashier mumble under her skin that it was a bad day as they started off with 12 credit card payments that morning! ----------- Addendum 10 months later the food quality has deteriorated together with service. Obviously this is a personal opinion. The restaurant is now not busy. Cash is now insisted on. Try to use a credit card and the cashier says they have to add $2/- a head extra cover charge! That is way more than the 3% often quoted for using AMEX. The is just another surcharge!

Sometimes when you take a gamble it pays off, and this was one of those occasions. With this…read morerestaurant offering "20% off Yum Cha lunch" during weekdays one cannot help but wonder what they have to offer. To add to the risk factor I decided to take my partner. Though the place was alive and busy with the chatter of patrons, we where seated instantly and offered free hot tea (something of a novelty now as I understand it). The place was clean and food was made available to us pretty much instantly. The range of food was enough for us to enjoy a good selection without being too overwhelmed. The food was always hot, tasted relatively fresh, and traditional from a Westerns standpoint. The staff was abundant and willing to help. We got a little lost in translation a couple of times, but seriously what do you expect? We enjoyed ourselves and filled up on all that we could, then went over to the counter to pay with our stamped form in hand. After the 20% discount the grand total was only $26.60... for two people! I was in shock by how cheap it was. A word of advice, take cash to avoid any high credit card fees, lucky for us we had cash. Our only disappointment was not receiving a glass of water that we requested, but we never followed it up as the tea was just fine. (Another note, if you plan on parking in the Mandarin Centre's parking lot be sure to have your parking ticket validated when paying so you receive the free 3 hours parking.) Update: Unfortunately now that the restaurant has established itself, the 20% off lunch no longer applies. However we still go as we love the food.

Located inside a club, you have to be a member to come in or visitors can come in with their…read morepassports. Not exactly sure what their membership rules are. They have a Large Sign for dress code in order to gain entry. The door staff are very nice and pleasant processing you through the door before you can go upstairs to the restaurant. The serving staff are very nice and friendly, and they bring the dishes around for you to choose from. You have a great view of the water from the window. We ordered the usual fare, BBQ pork bun, Sticky Rice, Sui Mai, Shrimp Dumpling, Rice Noodles, Chicken Feet, Egg Tarts. They charge tea per person, but will be waive based on the staff's discretion. Coming from Vancouver, the quality of food is just average, nothing really amazing. Price wise, it was expensive, for 10 people, eating the same items in Vancouver, this meal will be about $80, whereas in AUS$ over 200 dollars. If you want Free Wifi, you have to go downstairs to the office and ask for a code, which only lasts 30 minutes. We come here more for convenience as they have easy access for handicap restrooms for my 97 years old grandmother.

The best yum Cha north of the bridge…read more While the surroundings are tired and the venue so daggy it's hip again (an RSL? Really?) the welcome you receive is warm and the food excellent. Steamed BBQ pork bao is the litmus of every dumpling house and here is no exception - soft, fluffy bun, moist and salty-sweet filling. The mango pancakes are also excellent - sweet insides wrapped around by delicate, paper-thin yellow pancakes. Only negative is the chilli sauce - it has no heat (obviously aimed at an elderly, gweilo patron). Ask for XO sauce, chopped chilli in soy sauce or chilli oil instead.

Waited like over 30 minutes on a Sunday and they charge you a fee of I believe 10%, which I don't…read morequite understand the reasoning for this fee. I thought the wait and C raving about how good this place is meant it was good, well IMO....NOPE. Ordered the following items: Zha Jiang Noodles - eh, probably the worse I have tried. Stir Fried Clams with X.O sauce - wanted a better flavour Xiao Long Bao Pork - okay the skin is way thicker than DTF and not sure if there is DTF, why go to this place. However, I don't recommend DTF in Westfield Chatswood. Dipping sauce for this sucks too. Nothing to put your sauce in and no offer of fresh ginger. Steamed Lion's Head meatball with Crab - I've tried other versions of this and this is the only thing I didn't mind. It didn't wow me, but I appreciate the homey feel of this dish. Pork Belly Steamed Buns - OMG and this is not a good way. I can't with these buns here - disgusting. Pork Belly is super dry and it's supposed to be Pork Belly and the cucumber was cut too thick and too dry tasting as well. Worse buns ever too! I don't get this place nor the high reviews.

This review only applies to their mediocre xiao long baos. Skin is a bit thick, kind of bland and…read moresoup to meat ratio is off. The vinegar sucks as well. Where is the tartness?!? You know the satisfaction you get when you pop a super ripe pimple? That level of joy should be experienced when biting into a slightly cooled soup dumpling, but instead u get to bite into deflated balloons filled with bland pork. Blah. So effing blah.

The outside plays on a traditional Chinese kinda look and the inside pretty much has a Chinese…read morediner kinda feel! It's like you're in a diner in Hong Kong - nothing fancy but clean enough for a peace of mind. My mum said we should check it out as they always display the most delicious looking large buns inside the window so in we go. The service is friendly and efficient, with the waitresses/waiters dressed in typical red Chinese clothing - I guess they were going for the traditional look! But enough blabber, the food is what you want to know about. The soybean milk was sweet and hot, perfect to dip the deep fried dough (I think they call it fritters here) into it. Yum. Tick. The little steamed meat dumplings were bursting with soup inside and the meat was deliciously seasoned. Another tick. The fried noodles were slightly oily but flavour was still good. Tick, tick and tick. All I hope is that this place keeps up the food standard, cause it's pretty damn good!

I have found a pretty decent restaurant for authentic Beijing food in chatswood. Was recommended by…read morea close friend for their Peking duck and really friendly staff. Had walked past the big red chinese door many times but never tried it. Will definitely go back the next time I want a nice local sit down meal. Moderate pricing $$.