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Spicy Sichuan is located on Glebe Point Rd, near the corner of Parramatta Rd. On the outside the restaurant is all red lanterns and rosewood. The inside brings more rosewood, glass-topped tables, pleasant waiters in terrible imperial Chinese uniforms, and the aroma of dry-fried Sichuan peppers and garlic. This eater and her friend came for the Sichuan test. That is the dry-fried chicken with chilli and the dry-fried beans with mince pork test. Any Sichuan restaurant worth its salt needs to... Read Full Story

Ok so MGS likes chocolate. Dark or dairy, it doesn't really matter. And who doesn't like doughnuts? Especially the skinny, crunchy kind that the Spanish call Churros. Icing-sugar dusted churros dipped in a choice of melted, white, dark or milk chocolate just made MGS' night the other night. The chocolate thick shakes were pretty darned good too. MGS. Chocolateria San Churro 47 Glebe Point Road 9692 0119 Read Full Story

There's a new(ish) Sichuan restaurant in Sydney. Spicy Sichuan is located on Glebe Point Rd, near the corner of Parramatta Rd. On the outside the restaurant is all red lanterns and rosewood. The inside brings more rosewood, glass-topped tables, pleasant waiters in terrible imperial Chinese uniforms, and the aroma of dry-fried Sichuan peppers and garlic. MGS and friend came for the Sichuan test. That is the dry-fried chicken with chilli and the dry-fried beans with mince pork test. Any Sichuan... Read Full Story

So MGS headed into Chinatown on February 10 for the Year of the Rat parade. It was crammed and crowded and after the drums and the dragons the streets became rivers of revellers streaming towards one thing: dumplings. Frightened by the cram and the lines at the dumpling joints, MGS headed for more Laghman... this time at Uyghur Cuisine , a ground floor establishment on Dixon Street. You can identify the place by the plastic grapes hanging from the roof and the lamb fat hanging in the air of... Read Full Story

Signing in as MGS - back in Sydney after a short repose - plenty of eating to be done, starting this weekend. Stay tuned.... Read Full Story

Several years ago MGS spent several months - about 18 of them - living in BeiJing. This explains her penchant for Asian flavours. One of MGS' favourite BeiJing haunts was a small, cheap, cheery (read fluorescent lighting) Xin Jiang restaurant not far from her apartment. Xin Jiang is an "automonous region" in China's North West. It borders Tibet, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Kashmir. That's a lot of influences on culture, language, religion, politics... Read Full Story

MGS ate at Pazzo last Saturday. This was her second trip to this small, homely Italian eatery at the bottom end of Crown St. At Pazzo , Mama makes the pasta... and it's good stuff. The place is simple and BYO only... it's really all about the food. There's plenty of it, at a decent price, and we're talking fresh ingredients, bright flavours, interesting flavour matches and spaghetti cooked just right. There's not a hint of arrogance, either, and this is something rare in these parts. MGS and... Read Full Story

MGS and friend woke late on Saturday, both sporting the kind of headache that only a pair of trendy sunglasses and a bought breakfast in Paddington can fix. So MGS headed for Paddington's famous Five-Ways (undergoing a bit of footpath renovation at present) which boasts a number of elegant breakfast establishments with plenty of options: from headache-curing fry-ups to less toxic wet mueslies with lashings of yoghurt... MGS headed for what used to be known as Local but what is now L'etoile... Read Full Story

Not long ago MGS posted that the best dumpling house in Sydney was Sea Bay on Pitt St... she stands by that, but several MGS readers suggested Yee King Fresh Handmade Noodles on Sussex St in Chinatown as an alternative venue. MGS visited this past Tuesday and was dearly please with this tiny box of a restaurant... about 10 tables in total although a set of stairs suggested potentially more seating elsewhere on the premises. The menu was pleasingly BeiJing style: plates of thick noodles with... Read Full Story

Not too long ago, MGS visited Osvaldo Polletti in Norton St, Leichardt. No, Norton St doesn't compare to Lygon St, Melbourne, for vibe and buzz, but Osvaldo Polletti put on a pretty good show food-wise... The place in simple and sleek with 2 compact levels. The menu changes weekly, MGS is told, and on the night she visited the mains included an interesting sounding lamb shoulder with anchovy and white wine; a pork cutlet with salsa verde, and the fish of the day... dunno what that was as it... Read Full Story