Sakana-Ya, Crows Nest. Penguin says Feed Me A Sydney food blog Skip to content ← The Falconer, Darlinghurst Rainbow Vanilla Buttercake → Sakana-Ya, Crows Nest Posted on December 9, 2009 by Jacq Feeling like going out for dinner somewhere close by, Sir D and I headed out to Crows Nest to eat at Sakana-Ya on a Thursday night.
The menu was so extensive that we took forever to decide what to eat and spent a great deal of time staring at all the types of fish. Tuna tartare with raw egg – $14.00. Out of my kitchen: Sakana-Ya. 336 Pacific HwyCrows Nest, 2065 Whilst not hidden away in Crows Nest since it is on the rather busy Pacific Highway, Sakana-Ya is almost anonymous along a very busy strip restaurants competing for dining dollars.
Exceeding expectations at Sakana-Ya. Crows Nest is littered with eateries, especially Japanese ones, and you’ll find Sakana-Ya just down the road from Ju-Rin.
With its unassuming and slightly dated entrance, it is hard to gauge what style of Japanese food Sakana-Ya serves within and what type of market they’re catering for. But venture through the blue curtains and the sliding glass door, and I can guarantee you’ll be pleasantly surprised. The décor within matches the doorway and is somewhat non-descript with wood panelling halfway up the walls and dark brown café-style furniture. Apart from the paper lantern light fixtures and the odd fishing rod and paper fan affixed to the walls, it could just as easily be an eatery which serves neither Japanese nor seafood but rather a different cuisine altogether.
However the aromas upon stepping in are unmistakably Japanese – being those of pickled ginger and sweet sukiyaki sauce. We are seated and served small complimentary dishes of edamame, each containing several pods. Street Food: Best of Sussex Centre Food Court ~ Chinatown. A list of our faves after trying every stall in the Sussex Centre Food Court.
Of the Chinatown foodcourts Eating World and Dixon House get most of the attention, but Sussex Centre is also highly recommended. And it's the cleanest of the three, which is a plus or a minus depending on your point of view. The windows at either end are great people watching spots, it's a bit more upbeat, and the loos are far less toxic than other foodcourts. Caysorn Thai - Haymarket - Restaurants. The more you learn, they say, the less you know.
Take Thai restaurants in Sydney: just when we were getting a handle on the growth of Isaan food, from Thailand's northeast, along comes Caysorn, possibly the first place in town specialising in the cuisine of the southern part of the country. What's more, food fans, if this any indication of things to come, then we have plenty to look forward to. It's a part of the world known for its heat, and if that's what you're after you won't be disappointed with Caysorn's menu. Kanom jeen - a vermicelli-like noodle made, traditionally, with pounded fermented rice - is offered in several versions (including lime leaf-fragrant nam ya fish curries with and without coconut milk and a green chicken curry with eggplant and bamboo). There's a self-serve station stocked with beansprouts, pickles, chopped snake beans and Thai basil. Nam priks are also a focus. It's not all incendiary stuff. This is not to say the food that isn’t hot isn’t worth the effort.
Lynn Shanghai, Sydney. I have noticed Lynn Shanghai sign ‘coming soon’ many times now and it has finally arrived!
Opened for about two months, Lynn is located in the heart of CBD on the ground floor of the Castlereagh Club which is on Castlereagh Street. I was meeting ‘The Mother’ for dinner – date night – and I suggested this place as I know how much he loves dumplings and I wanted something different to Din Tai Fung. LYNN Shanghai Cuisine, Town Hall. There’s no doubt that Sydney has been going through a Shanghainese dumpling craze in the past couple of years, with all sorts of restaurants like the famed Din Tai Fung from overseas and local competitors Taste of Shanghai and New Shanghai popping up everywhere.
But it’s time for the older players to move over – Lynn offers everything you could possibly want in a dumpling restaurant all in one convenient location close to Town Hall station. They have impeccable service, no ridiculous queues, gorgeous decor and cheap, tasty dumplings in reasonable serving sizes! For those not in the know, Lynn is a little hard to find as it is tucked inside the Castlereagh Club rather than facing out onto the street but once you walk into the foyer of the Club you will spot the entrance ahead. Lynn also has helpful signage outside on the street to guide people to come inside if you’re having trouble finding it. Earlybird. Sushi Hotaru, Town Hall. Sushi trains are awesome because you can eat as much or as little as you feel like, and the food is pretty much instant since you can just pick up whatever looks enticing off the train as it comes around.
But what makes Sushi Hotaru even more amazing is that most of the dishes are only $3! Yes, even the scallops and other usually more fancy seafood sushi are all the same price, which makes it much easier to make your decision about what to eat – without having to keep referring to the colour coded plate system to think about how much each dish costs. Genius. Top 5 one-dish wonders of Flemington, Sydney. Sydney’s multicultural and cosmopolitan lifestyle have blessed Sydneysiders with some of the most diverse cuisines found in and around so many food suburbs of our city.
Leichhardt is known for its old world Italian pizza and pasta, Petersham is a Portuguese hub with its fame bacalao and the array of fine dining Cantonese and chinese seafood restaurants in Sydney’s chinatown is second to none in the city. Vietnamese food has become so popular that Vietnamese beef pho has become a staple diet for many who like noodles in a bowl of flavoursome and tasty broth.