One of Chinatown’s biggest and brightest yum cha stars, the 400-seater East Ocean Restaurant is a vast expanse of white-clothed banquet tables and padded, high-backed chairs. An attractively modern Chinese space – even if the lighting is a little excessive – it is also here where you’ll find one of the better wine collections in Chinatown.

Also if you still haven’t been made aware, many Chinese restaurants in Australia also practice BYO, or Bring Your Own (booze), as locals are not customed to eating Asian food with Chinese tea. I shall not bore you with details of the Dim Sum as I find most items average actually.

However, special mention goes to the noodles dishes we ordered – the beef in the Fried Beef Hor Fun was tender, succulent and flavoursome, a sign that it was marinated well.

Although this dish tends to be a tad oily, it was easy for the palate with the green pairing of spring onions and bean sprouts, and when you wash it down with the Chinese tea.

The Seafood Crispy Noodles was a notch better with the generous serving of unimpaired seafood of Prawns, Squid and Scallops. The vegetables found in the noodles were just as fresh, which sets to balance out the slightly saltier yellow noodles.

However, both dishes didn’t come cheap – the Hor Fun was priced at a steep AUD16.80 and the Noodles – AUD22.80!

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