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MQ Restaurant Reviews Introduction In this Vlog, we will be sharing some of our favourite foods and restaurants found in Sydney. We post weekly blogs about the restaurants we have tried and give honest feedback and ratings. All of us LOVE hunting for new restaurants and experience foods that we haven't tried before.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjqZuaZgHt8&feature=youtu.be   Our members #Group 4 Tom O'Reilly: Review on Chinese restaurant 'Noodle City', Gordon Arlee Hwang: Review on Korean restaurant 'Kim Sat Gat', Eastwood Anna Yu: Review on Chinese Hotpot noodle restaurant 'Yang Guo Fu Malatang', Chinatown City Hannah (Hyun) Nam: Review on Italian fusion restaurant 'The Honest Kitchen' Eastwood Darren Lam: Review on Malaysian restaurant 'Hawker', Chinatown City Contribution Everyone came up with an idea of filming a short clip of us going to our favourite food/restaurants and compile them

ChalkBoard

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ChalkBoard Cafe Chalkboard is a fantastic small little cafe with very friendly service and good food. It has only just recently opened a month or two ago and so far it has received good reviews from the community. Chalkboard cafe is open 7 days a week and 4 nights, at night time it turns into a a dinner restaurant serving a Australian, Middle Eastern, and Persian dining menu. It is rated #2 of 33 restaurants in Gordon. The menu has an assortment of different options catering for people who want eggs all the way to Acai bowls. Mango Smoothie Bacon & Egg Brioche Roll I had a Bacon and Egg brioche roll which was very delicious especially with the brioche bun which I had never had with bacon and eggs before, i also had a mango smoothie to go with it which was great. I thoroughly enjoyed be experience at the Chalkboard Cafe and would recommend it to others. Website: https://www.chalkboardcafe.com.au/ Address: 13-15 St Johns Avenue, Gor

Yang Guo Fu Malatang

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On 14 of October, walked through the crowed place in Sydney and found a place for a new typical Chinese food. The YANG GUO FU MA LA TANG, noodles with spicy soup and bunch of typical Chinese ingredients, e.g. meatball from different kind of animals or “veggie meatball” made by flour, vegetable like Bok Choi or Cabbage, the food known by every Chinese. But the quintessence is the soup, the spicy soup. You just have to pick your food and the staff will weight for you to pay, then they will cook it for you at once. When they call your number then choose your sauces, e.g. sesame, garlic, chili. Pepper oil, sugar and vinegar.   Nowadays, it is quite famous for some Chinese picking this for their “daily fun meal”. It is quite like the traditional Chinese hotpot. The only difference from the hotpot is you don’t have the pot to cook and wait by yourself. It can save much of your time but you can still have a part of the joy from hotpot in your busy daily life. At least the

Papparich Chatswood

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Papparich is a Malaysian restaurant with several branches in Sydney. The one I went to was located at   1/63A Archer St, Chatswood NSW 2067. It opens from 11:30am to 9pm.  There are several different menus for roti (malaysian bread), Satay (meat on a stick) and a range of different noodle and rice dishes. This restaurant also caters for vegetarians. I ordered the Dry Curry Egg Noodles with Steamed Chicken. How this worked was that they cooked the egg noodles and put some curry on the side in a separate bowl. The egg noodles comes with spring onions, fried shallots and kale. The separate bowl contained only the curry sauce. Steamed chicken was decorated with some coriander. The meat was the chicken breast and was surprisingly soft and tender The service was mainly self-service. I was asked to look through the menu and write down the number of the dish i wanted to have before giving it to the waiter. Water collection

Gibbons street cafe

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  Today I am going to review about the Gibbon street Café ! Gibbon street Café is one of newest café that recently opened at Redfern and serving brunch menu with coffee and fresh juice. There menu price is between $15-$20 and coffee is $3.5 for small and$4.5 for large. Gibbon street Café' style is bit different as other  cafes because they design the menu based on Thai and Australian style. So most of the menu names are bit special such as they naming  'Gibbon St Hotcakes' or 'Bangkok brekkie Eggs' which is very unique naming and attract the customers to try. So I tried both of menu   'Gibbon St Hotcakes' and 'Bangkok brekkie Eggs'  both taste are very Australian brunch style but I can taste little bit taste of Thai food ingredient :) They also sell the linguini pasta calls 'Squid and Chorizo Linguini'  this is one of my favourite menu because  I can taste  Thai-spices mingled well with pasta :) I attached the pictures for what I h

Cafe Oratnek

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Inside Cafe Oratnek If you meet up with your friends often to have brunch, Café Oratnek is a MUST to go place. It is a Japanese and a bit of an Australian twist fusion café located in Redfern, Sydney. The café has both outdoor and indoor seatings with a beautiful view of the park. A lot of my friends recommended me to this place and told me that it is one of the best brunch café/restaurant in Sydney. I went with a friend to try their famous ‘Pork Fillet Katsu sandwich’. Omurice and Pork Katsu Sandwich My friend and I were so hungry and was exhausted from a long walk to the station to the café, so we ordered two different dishes to share. We ordered the Classic Omurice $19, and their signature dish Pork Fillet Katsu sandwich, $13. You will be amazed with the quality of the food, and the amount of the food. At first, I thought the Omurice (fried rice) was a bit expensive, but it was worth the price. The egg that covered the rice was so moist, and the rice with fried vegetables

Tiny Sweetie

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Tiny Sweetie is a Hong Kong style dessert shop. My friend and I visited it in a Saturday afternoon, it was full of people. We were asked by a staff to move to another table after we just sat down. The restaurant is a bit small so you might struggle to get a seat if you're with a larger group. It seems like most of the costumers tend to go for the takeaway option. The menu mostly consists of dessert soups, and they are at very reasonably price (around $5). Unfortunately, the watermelon sago my friend tried wasn't quite like she had expected, it was more or a coconut milk mixed with sago, and the watermelon did not taste really good. But the red bean ice was really good! The red bean paste was well mixed with the milk. For the rice balls, it would be better if the peanuts were baked more. Watermelon Sago with Coconut Milk $5.00 Sesame Glutinous Rice Balls with Peanuts Topping $4.50 Red Bean Ice $4.50 Website:   https://www.facebook.com/TinySweetieCh

Daniel San

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Daniel San Daniel San is a rock n roll bar serving Japanese food on manly's iconic beach front. Its a great place to meet up wth friends for a couple of drinks and some good Japanese food. They have specials on almost every night of the week. Monday is $10 burgers and $3 buns, Tuesday is 2-4-1 deal which gets you 2 meals for the price of one which is very good value and also what I went for with a few friends, Wednesday is all you can eat dumplings for $24.50, Thursday is sushi train night with plates starting at $3.  Outside Inside Salt and Pepper Squid Chicken Katsu Burger Overall I think that the value is very good as almost every night there is a special on which you can treat yourself with along with a couple of drinks with friends. The food is delicious and the vibe is enjoyable. I would definitely recommend to other people to try this restaurant out.  Website: http://www.danielsan.com.au/ Address: 55 N Stey

Kura

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Kura is a Japanese Restaurant that is located opposite market city. The address is 3/76 Ultimo Rd, Haymarket NSW 2000 and is open from 10:30am to 11:30pm. It is a place that is best suited for casual dining. There are 2 floors.  The menu consists of a range of different Japanese foods from bentos, to udon (noodles) and donburi (rice dishes). There is even the option to half and half the udon and donburi, allowing the customer to have the best of both worlds albeit in smaller portions.   I ordered the half and half consisting of the Karage Don and Katsu Udon. Karage is Japanese deep fried chicken and Katsu is a breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet . A small bowl of salad accompanied the dish. Whilst the Katsu udon and Karage was good, I felt that the rice in the Don was a bit hard to eat with the lack of sauce. Karage traditionally comes with Mayonnaise however it did not mix well with plain rice.

Circa Espresso

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Entrance of Circa Espresso Circa Espresso is famous for their brunch menus. It’s located in Parramatta, 21 Wentworth St. Their style of cuisine is Modern Australian ‘farm-to-table’; meaning that they use fresh and full of nutrition ingredients. When you arrive to this fancy café/restaurant, you will instantly fall in love with the design and interior of the café. The exterior of the café is very modern but the inside is full of antique. Because it was a nice, warm weather, my friends and I decided to sit outside to have our brunch.    As soon as we arrived, we ordered our drinks. When we looked at the menu, we were honestly very confused. The menu and the name of the drinks were very different to those other brunch cafes that I have tried. I think this is what made this café unique. I wasn’t confident enough to try something different so I ordered Iced latte, my all-time favourite. My friends ordered Iced tea Egyptian Rosehip and Hibiscus and Sticky Chai. The price ranged

Down N' Out

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Down  N' Out  used be one of pop-up store in CBD that provides American style burgers. But since the end of August they opened independent shop in George street, CBD next to the Sir John Young Hotel. This restaurant become famous for give the chance to customer to make their own burger for add different types of topping inside of the burger, and the chefs are cooking and serving the food to the customers. This is the picture of the customer design their own burgers!   Down N' Out sells the burgers based on 4 types of burgers, such as Double, Vego, Single and Chick'N, and the customer can add different types of toppings add on inside of their burger such as bacon, extra patty, deep fried cheese patty or jalapenos. The burger price is between $12 to $16 and toppings and side menus are around $1 to $8. I attach the menu in the bottom, please check if you are interest in! :) This is the picture of my burgers that I took when I visited. I ordered a Single b

The Runaway Spoon

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The Runaway Spoon is a cafe which provides an inner city vibe in Lindfield> open from 7am, seven days a week, as said on their website "we specialise in superior coffee and up-market cafe food". It's ranked number #3 of 28 restaurants in Lindfield. It is mainly a cafe but at night turns into a bar and tapas restaurant for people to go and enjoy themselves. Outside the Restaurant Outside Seating Big Breakfast Overall I found my experience at The Runaway Spoon very enjoyable. I had a hearty big breakfast which costed me $21.90. A little pricey but the food was enjoyable and the service was excellent. I would recommend this restaurant as it has good food, excellent service with friendly wait staff and the food very enjoyable.  Website: http://www.therunawayspoon.com.au/ Address: 1&2/12 Tryon Road, Lindfield 2070 Number: 9416 2565