Chinatown Sydney

The Area Around Dixon Street and Haymarket

Chinatown Sydney is located at the Haymarket end of Sydney, between Darling Harbour, Pyrmont and Central Railway Station.

The main streets of Chinatown Sydney are Dixon Street and Sussex Street, which are full of excellent Chinese restaurants, grocery shops and shopping arcades (malls).

And like all good shopping malls, the ones in Chinatown Sydney have Asian food stalls which create wonderful Eastern dishes of every kind, at very modest prices.

For example, a gigantic bowl of noodles and wun tun soup, with green vegetables - or a dish with rice, meat, vegetables and soup - should give you change from $10 (Australian currency) in Chinatown Sydney with which you can buy a can of soda (soft drink).

You can eat Chinese, Mongolian, Malaysian, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Cambodian and other Asian delights, including many wonderful desserts, fruits and jellies at Chinatown Sydney.

Like Chinatowns all over the planet you can just wander aimlessly through and enjoy the sights, the sounds and the smells of all that fabulous food being cooked in a hundred different ways.

You can even go and have a 'Yum Cha' lunch in Chinatown Sydney, where they give you just a pot of Chinese tea. Then you pick out the dishes you fancy from the wide selection which the waiters and waitresses bring round on trolleys and trays.

One of my absolute favourite deserts is Mango Pudding which is a bowl of chilled egg-custard with pureed mango in it. May I say it's just Heavenly? It's on the menu at the excellent Marigold Restaurant.

The Yum Cha dishes are small and not at all expensive, so be prepared to try several different ones until you've had your fill.

Of course, if you'd prefer western type food or good old Aussie tucker, there are several excellent pubs (called 'hotels' in Australia) in Chinatown Sydney where you can enjoy an icy cold beverage and a hearty meal at the counter or bistro.