Always looking to try something different, I found myself at Pak Hailam Kopitiam seeing what…read moreMalaysian food was all about. Service was quick. I was there for an early dinner and there were not many other people there. I had some type of sweetened hot tea that was very tasty. I can't remember what It was called. For dinner I settled on what I think was the Kampung Mee Goreng and I chose seafood. It was a fried noodle dish. I could smell it when they started cooking it and my mouth began to water. It smelled good. The food did not disappoint. It was a little salty for me but there were very good flavors in this dish. I have become a fan of Malaysian food.

This Malaysian restaurant is located near the river on Church St. and across from Bay Vista. I had…read moreChar Kway Teow which came with two different types of noodle and had lots of flavour from the wok. Also tried a Sambal Fish dish which was also very tasty. Prices are very reasonable and portions are good! The restaurant is also very spacious.

Opened up 3 weeks ago, the wife & I decided to pop by as we were craving Malaysian food…read more The food was delicious, the curry beef & the roti was on point! Even though we were full, we decided to give dessert a go. We ordered the sticky rice pudding & the kuih ketayap (pandan crepe, coconut & ice cream), both were superb. The staff were exceptional, very friendly & cheerful. You can really tell that they want you to enjoy the food & have a great time there. Makes it easier that it's BYO, so bring along your favourite & relax. We'll definitely be coming back here & supporting a great local business!

OMG. Walked past planning on going elsewhere and decided to eat here instead. Best dinner EVAH…read more Food was delicious and nothing left over at the end.

Well coat me in sambal and call me spicy, there's a new Malaysian restaurant just down the road…read morefrom me and I don't know what its name means but it's fun to sound out phonetically. Berempah. See? Swung past for one of their lunch specials, got the $9.90 vegetarian curry (with a hit of sambal on the side, natch). Welcome to flavourville, population: your homeboy me. The curry is made on lentils with big steaming hunks of potato and eggplant, there's tomato and carrot in there, and coriander and chilli. I'd actually eat it just as a soup but I love rice so much I'll never look a gift rice in the face if someone is throwing it at me. I'd just catch it in a bowl and now it's my rice. These guys better get used to seeing me at lunchtimes on my phone.

One of the few restaurants that open early, at 5:00pm. With young kids it was nice to be able to…read moreeat early. The service was pretty good and the portions reasonable. Food tasted good. The kids had satay chicken and spring rolls followed by deep fried battered squid. I can't help but compare them to the Salt & Pepper Squid served in the Qantas First Class Lounge in Sydney. They taste just the same! The Fried Koay Teow was a little pale but pretty good. The specialty of the house, crispy skin pork in special sauce was good but a little too oily. I could not eat too many pieces. The curry chicken with Roti was ordinary. Sambal Kankong was passable. There was no iced Kopi, so I settled for iced milk tea. This was extremely sweet but tasted okay when you add a bit more water.

Food was as amazing as I remembered. I had a layover over10 years ago. Not surprised this place is…read morestill open and the food is still good.

Constant Line is evident about its popularity and demand. Always have to wait 30min or more with…read morethe line going outside. Takeaway/to-go is the move but still wait 25-30min. Camp around opening to guarantee instant seating. Satay is good and the mee goreng. Roti is good but typical

I think Rasa tastes better these days compared to before. I like having them over on the 'Korean…read moreside' of town to introduce a bit of choice. Don't want hainan rice with your hainan chicken? They actually offer a bowl of laksa with hainan chicken. Decent food that gets me going relatively regularly as a local.

Sorry to be writing a one star review but it needs to be said…read more I ordered two of their 'Best Sellers' which was the Hainan Chicken Rice and the Har Mee. With the Hainan Chicken Rice, I was expecting really tender juicy chicken and the rice to be both packed with flavour. With the Har Mee, I was expecting like a spicy aromatic prawn base with the noodles etc (since in the menu it stated that it was a spicy dish). Perhaps my preconceived idea of the dishes were too high? But this was due to the fact that I was trying their top dishes! Anyhow, the looks of dish quickly deceived me and I was extremely disappointed when I actually tasted the food to say the least. The chicken was dry, little to no flavour. The rice, bland, no flavour. It was basically white rice with the ever so slightest hint of chicken juices. The prawn base, despite its vibrant colours was definitely lacking depth in flavour (basically water spiked with food colouring) and NO spice at all. Not spicy at all. zero. zilch. All in all, sorry but will not be back for more.

Tian Tian is a small Chinese and Malaysian restaurant. Basic setup. Small selection of drinks and…read moreoffers a pre-cooked lunch special in a bain-marie. I had the Nasi Lemak special. The chicken curry was flavoursome and had an amazing heat. The service was friendly and prompt. Would recommend to anyone craving that Malaysian hit.

Awesome place for an unassuming shopfront. Authentic Malaysian style dishes for much less than some…read moreof the more established popular Malaysian restaurants charge.

This is the best Thai restaurant! Prawns had a delicious light sauce that were absorbed by the…read morebroccoli. I've had massaman curry from various different Thai restaurants and nothing tops the one from here. The big tender chunks of beef paired with rice is just a roller coaster of mouth watering flavours - and the coconutty taste was perfectly subtle and not prominent which I personally much prefer. Tom yum prawn was perfectly spiced with a generous amount of mushrooms.

I have always walked past this place, because of its unassuming looks. Just doesn't look appealing…read more But today I was desiring a Laksa for lunch. Wife agreed. We did a search and this was the only venue near us serving Laksa for lunch. I had always thought Laksa was purely Malaysian. But come to find out, also a southern Thai dish. And I now prefer the Thai version. It is more creamy with a rich coconut flavour than the Malay broth version with sour asam. The service was very attentive and friendly and the pricing is fantastic. Will come back again and again. You come here for the food, not the ambience. And it is BYO, so that helps get around the unassuming looks.

Within 30 minutes after checking into our hotel room, we "hit the ground running" and headed…read moredirectly to Ho Jiak Malaysian Grill & Nyonya House in Haymarket since we were hungry and craving Chinese comfort food. Our Cantonese heritage taste buds from Hawai'i would have been happy with steaming hot bowls of soup noodles and dumplings after our long travel day. Still, I suggested to my husband that we eat a familiar Asian cuisine we wouldn't usually get back home; hence, Malaysian & Nyonya were the answer. I had bookmarked Ho Jiak Haymarket because it was in the Chinatown neighborhood, where we also planned to explore, and it was about a 15-minute walk from there. We were certainly glad that we didn't have to wait in line to get in, as Google Maps photos show. We were seated immediately and took a few minutes to scroll through their extensive menu, then chose items from the Lunch Specials Menu. The Lunch Specials Menu included an entrée (choose from 8 selections) and a beverage (non-alcoholic or alcoholic) for A$25 or around $17 USD. FOOD: -Hainan Chicken Rice + Teh Tarik (cold): I received a half slow-poached chicken, fragrant rice cooked in chicken broth, and a bowl of chicken broth. The chicken was garnished with fresh cucumber slices, bean sprouts, and cilantro. Also, it was served with chili sauce, soy sauce, and finely chopped ginger root and garlic. The tender poached chicken was juicy, non-greasy, and tasty. This dish was a healthy and toothsome meal. Teh Tarik is a Malaysian "pulled or shaken" milk tea, and I requested it in the cold or iced style because the outside temperature was quite hot. The Teh Tarik was refreshing, thirst-quenching, and flavorful. A$25 -Char Hor Fun + House Beer (Asahi Dry 330 ml): My husband selected this dish, but didn't know what to expect as he doesn't read or speak Chinese. Admittedly, my limited reading of Chinese characters suggested that this dish might be similar to my "usual" Cantonese childhood comfort food, Wat Tan Hor. When the Char Hor Fun was delivered to our table, I immediately recognized it as Wat Tan Hor, except that the egg sauce contained tender pork slices, shrimp, green vegetables, fish cake, and, I think, chunks of fish. The flat, broad rice noodles were stir-fried in soy sauce for additional seasoning, and we could tell the wok heat was perfect because there were very few broken noodles. When the server brought the House Beer, my husband was pleasantly surprised to receive an icy cold bottle of Asahi Dry. A$25 -Loh Bak: We selected this appetizer because of its description and our pork-leaning taste buds. Loh Bak is five-spiced pork jowl rolls wrapped in bean curd skin and deep-fried. We were thinking these pork jowl rolls would surely whet our appetites, and the deep-fried rolls didn't disappoint. A$20 This restaurant was lively, friendly, and clean with authentic-tasting Malaysian and Nyonya flavors. The service was prompt, amicable, and helpful.

It's my first time visiting Sydney so I had to look up the best eats in the city.. and there are…read moreresounding reviews to visit Ho Jiak. I was dining solo so I was seated immediately, a plus since it was dinner time. The vibe gives off mom and pop shop where you can enjoy home cooked dishes. Honestly, the menu is a tad bit overwhelming but I opted for one of the signature dishes, Char Koay Teow -- spicy stir fried flat rice noodles with seafood & Chinese sausage. It reminded me of Pad See Ew prolly because of the flat noodles! It's good but the portions were heaping so the more I ate it, it became saltier with every bite. Something to take note when ordering, as the plates are for sharing. I think what attributed to the 3-star review was for the mixup/snafu. They accidentally sent my order to another table even though I got there before the other party. They apologized profusely, and I saw all the commotion happen in the kitchen and staff to get it all sorted out.. but not gonna lie -- that still put a damper to my experience. I also ate my chicken curry filled roti (which was phenomenal btw) since my main order took longer to remake after the other table touched the order that was meant for my table. Anyway! I do appreciate the staff for checking in and asking how I liked the dishes. Pro-tip, you don't need to ask for a check/bill, you can simply pay up at the counter. I should definitely stuck with my gut to get the laksa. Oh well, another opportunity to come back I guess!

Really nice Malaysian restaurant with good classic dishes…read more The shrimp paste fried chicken wings were really nice, crispy and lots of flavour. Oyster omelette was generous with oyster. The Babi pongteh wasn't that outstanding though, it was good, but nothing too special. Roti was very good, fluffy and buttery. Location was a bit strange, located on a main road, but appeared to have no parking

Had an excellent lunch at Peranakan Place in Auburn. Tried the char kway teow, ngoh Hiang, otak,…read moreprawn noodles, chicken rice, prawn paste chicken, nonya laksa, hokkien Noodles. All dishes were good and authentic. The place was pleasantly decorated. The service was very good. So far it's one of the best Malaysian food I tried in Sydney.

If you're looking from a change up from the regular brunch options, head to Kin. Kin serves up…read moreAsian fusion brunch. They have congee and they put onsen eggs in everything! The congee was interesting, but at $15 a bowl of boiled white rice, compared to less than $5 a bowl at every other Chinese restaurant, it's a bit steep. Tasted and looked good though. The onsen eggs on toast and salmon was okay, but tasted a bit too ordinary. I saw both the ex Masterchef contestants hard at work. I liked seeing that they were personally behind the food and care about delivering quality food to customers. Too often these days, a celebrity chef will leave the restaurant to run itself.

You know those "Asian" restaurant which serves Chinese, Thai, Japanese and every other South East…read moreAsian cuisine that every country town in Australia seems to have? Well Kin is a bit like that but also in every way the opposite. Kin serves Asian-style cafe food, spanning Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese and Malaysian cuisines with some Australian cafe style food to boot. And somehow...it works! The salmon is out of this world - super tender but with a lovely charred surface. My money's on sous vide then blow torched. The accompanying spinach is a curious ball of umami and the onsen eggs have me leave poached eggs behind in the dust. The pho is incredibly rich yet delicate and the black sesame shake is grey like concrete, just the way black sesame anything should be. Despite not being a follower of My Kitchen Rules, I somehow still know of Shanelle and Uel. It's a delight to see them hard at work in the kitchen when we visit and even more so when we see them truly embodying their name, bantering with their staff and checking in to make sure they've eaten. It is clear that the food here is made with love. Kin, try as you may to keep me away with your terrible parking, puns and queues, but I will be back for the rest of the menu!