I've been to many places for Taiwanese (fast) food and Cho Express is the closest you can get to…read morethe food in Taiwan. Specialities are their Eggplant (side dish), Pork Rice, Deep Fried Chicken, Deep Fried Pork and their Red/Black teas. They have several, what I like to call, tuckshops in Hurstville and Market City in Chinatown, and an actual restaurant in Chinatown (Thomas St). Don't expect any services as you'll get close to none. The services you get will seem rushed as they want you to finish and leave so they can "serve" the next batch of hungry souls. The side dishes are also delicacies of Taiwan and be adventurous! Try out different stuff - beef brisket, pork stomach, cuttlefish jelly .... YOLO right?

The restaurant has completely changed the interior into a more modern design, and the process of…read moreordering has changed. There's a self serve kiosk to order and pay, then you scan a number barcode and sit down. It was all a really simple procedure and I like the concept. Once I sat down and got situated, the food came out almost instantaneously and looked glamorous. All the rice soaked up the juices of the fatty, succulent pieces of pork; and it was absolutely delectable. Never a boring bite!

Every time I walk down Victoria Ave in Chatty I eye off Bao Dao like a pretty girl in nightclub. I…read moresidle past and give her the sideways-glance, the one I hope is coy but probably just looks creepy. She sees me looking, too. She pulses and glows, and sends wafts of pungent perfume drifting down the street to envelop me in her heady musk. Finally ate there last night. Was fresh from the gym, cricket training and no lunch, and was so famished I coulda eaten the eyes out of a dead camel. I was barely coherent by this point. I just needed food, tasty food, and a table full of it. Bao Dao delivered. In spades. Big ones. Cheap ones. Hot, steaming, spicy, delicious ones. You order off a big plastic picture menu, there's a ton of small-sized dishes at ridiculous prices - most everything is between $4 and $7, with sides around $3. So you just point at about a thousand things that look good and 5 minutes later you're heffing in like John Goodman at a buffet. I don't like to blow my own horn (unless I'm alone and something with Mandy Moore is on TV), but I ordered the $hit out of that place. Everything that came was epic, from the pulled pork with sweet peanut rolls to the oily lamb broth to the fried coriander chicken to the suuuuper spicy dumplings with pickled cucumber to the pork sauce rice with century egg. Guh. Getting giddy just thinking about it. So go. Try. The Taiwanese girl is waiting. She wants you inside her.

Best authentic Taiwanese street food you can find in Australia. If you like Asian food and Chinese…read morefood, you should give this place a try! Too bad there are not a lot of vegan options if you're going with a group with dietry requirements.

New place in Eastwood. Interesting decor that gives you an impression that you are in a street food…read moreplace somewhere in Taiwan. Food was good. We ordered pig ears, pork belly and Gwa Bao. They use coriander and some sort of peanut to bring out the flavour, and fresh bun made it taste good. We also bought their small pancakes near the entrance and tried all the options except for chocolate because it was unavailable at that time. Flavoirs are:cheese, green tea, custard, red bean

Finally got battery for the phone, 3rd visit already. It is a newer establishment inEastwood. The…read morefood is always good, but quantity is a bit inconsistent. Like today, there was only v little tendon in my beef tendon noodle, about half the portion I had last time. Our favorite is the Taiwanese fried chicken pieces.

This place has an awesome variety of sweet and savory vegetarian breads. From blueberry polo buns…read moreto different sponge cake flavours to mushroom floss bread

Misplaced my photos and I didn't want to review without them. Turns out they are lousy photos but…read moreyou get the idea. This review is from March 2020 - just as the pandemic was about to really go nuts. I barely made it back to the US before things got really crazy. Sadly the onset of COVID-19 had brought the worst in some people and anti-Asian sentiment is a thing even in Australia. I wanted to support the Chinatown businesses as best I could. It wasn't a chore - the food and service here was top shelf. I wish I had more time on my trip to go back and sample more items from the menu because the experience from start to finish was delightful. I hope they are thriving and if you're in Sydney looking for some excellent hot pot/pot stickers, excellent customer service and experience this is recommended for sure.

You have to walk inside, get carded, and then take a lift upstairs to the 2nd floor. The restaurant…read moreupstairs is actually quite spacious. It's nothing fancy but then again, you didn't come for the atmosphere (tho as a sports fan, it's a nice bonus to have it on the TV screens). The food is what you came for and if it's fried dumplings that you want, this is the place to be. Their pork fried dumplings were cooked to perfection both nights I came here for an after work meal. The veggies were well cooked as well.

Authentic Taiwanese food, although not cheap, with modern space and average service. Noodles are…read moretheir specialty with really good bone broth. We had noodle with Taiwanese pickles and pork and it was good. Some of their cold plates are excellent as well. Give it a try!

I am not sure what happened to my review back in 2017, but I am reviewing this place again, so I…read morecan have something to reference to know what I liked and disliked. I remembered I ordered the Pipis with Basil back in 2017, but couldn't remember what I thought of it, so I am back here in 2022 and I tried the following items: Pipis with Basil - as mentioned, got this again and I thought it was good, but my mother makes it better. This place the sauce is a bit too thick for my liking, but since I love pipis, I came back here again to get them, but this time I asked them to make it super spicy and it tasted a lot better. Spicy Chicken Wonton - okay this is a total fail. The chicken was super dry and just not good. This is the worse spicy wonton I ever had in my life. Kong Bao Chicken - ordered this but I asked them if this is Kung Pao Chicken and they said yes, and this was also the worse version I ever had. It tasted as though they fried the chicken and then cooked it. The chicken was super dry as well. Hot & Sour Soup - decent Beef Noodle Soup - okay this won me over that made me want to come back. I thought this was a good dish given the weather. Pork - good Prawn Dumpling - good size filling in here and ordered some frozen ones to go that I totally forgot to eat. Taiwan Style Smoked Chicken - I think there are two menus floating around, because the one that I saw didn't have the word tea in it, but I believe I saw another one after the fact that had the word tea. When I originally got it, it was to share but didn't realize it was tea smoked chicken and A doesn't like tea, so I was stuck with this large chicken. This didn't wow me, though the chicken wasn't dry, but the novelty of this didn't last long for me. I wanted to order this Tainan Dan Dan Soup Noodle, but it threw me off since it says Soup and I never had Dan Dan noodles that were brothy and when I got to the store I asked them and they showed me a picture on their menu and I have never heard of a soup version of Dan Dan noodles. Maybe they got the name wrong? I didn't get it because I wanted the dry Dan Dan. I want to say service here is eh, but I really didn't like the fact that the shorter lady, who might be the owner or head manager needs a lot of work in hospitality. Both times I came here and I dropped 90-100 dollars and the second time I asked her to give me chili sauce and the other lady gave me this other one that had no chili inside, so I said no, I want the one with chili and she brought me just sliced chili with no oil. I said I want the one that you gave me when I ate here with the chili oil, so the manager lady scolded me as though I am supposed to know the chili sauce I wanted was what they called homemade chili, but meanwhile I think chili sauce was pretty clear. Anyways, the reason why I bring this up is because I saw that the sauce costs $.50, but she charged me $1.00 and she was going to originally charge me a $1.00 just for some sliced chili. Like one little tiny chili sliced doesn't equate to a dollar. I am mad that I have ordered loads of food both times and not only did she charge me a $1.00, but ripped me off because it was supposed to be $.50 only. Shadiness!

Really nice home style Taiwanese restaurant. The smoked chicken is REALLY good, lots of smoky…read moreflavour, really juicy and tender meat. The calamari roll with salted egg was quite disappointing for me, $14 for something quite small, and the flavour just didn't get me. Noodle soup was quite nice, but nothing too special. The smoked chicken will have me coming back, and I will try more of their other dishes. 5 stars for the smoked chicken, 3 stars for everything else. The bathroom is located outside and in another building.

8am on a Saturday morning. A little hung over and needing an Asian soup to soothe the soul…read more.. Bring on Cho Dumpling House!! We started with the gentle, tasty, duck leg soup that arrived at our table 6 minutes after ordering. Super tender duck leg with soft delicious rice noodle. Just what we needed. Pow! So good and uplifting, another soup was needed - Beef Noodle Soup with glass noodles..!! ‍ O.M.G. This could be the tastiest beef soup in the world (probably). Flavour. Flavour. Flavour. The rich, meaty, beefy broth complimented by the unctuous, sticky, super-long vermicelli glass noodles. Lip smacking, chin dribbling deliciousness..! We'll be back. Tomorrow. And the next day. And the next day....

I ordered the large minced pork rice set (with a side dishes) for $14. The serving was really huge…read morefor a petite Asian girl like me (imagine two bowls of rice). Meal was delicious and I enjoyed every single bite. Delicious quick fix. Service was efficient (though most of the staff were expressionless probably due to fatigue at the non-stop customer flow), waitress was really nice to lend me their staff key when I needed to use the washroom (located beyond the glass doors beside the shop, 2 room on the right). Recommended for those who want a cheap good meal under $20. P/S: This shop doesn't sell dumplings despite its name. You can find dumplings in the shops beside it though. P/P/S: You can grab some candy as you leave the shop, it's just by the door.

The milk tea here was disappointing. It was watery. I might have had better with a bag of Tetley's…read moreand my own milk and sugar. Having had some impressive milk teas in Taipei and in cities with dense Taiwanese populations--this just missed the mark. I was pretty excited because their menu of drinks is extensive and they seemed legit from the storefront, but what I ordered was less than expected :(

Ordered take away over the phone. I was told 10-15 mins. Got to the store in 20 mins and was told…read moremy food will be ready soon. Not realizing my order was already ready. They made me wait another 20 mins and when I asked about my order they just handed my the order that's been sitting since I got there and all they said was sorry. Terrible service and the food was average.