Taste of Shunde 順德味道 Hurstville

Solid yum cha, about average for Sydney - 3.5 stars. Pork coriander dumplings dry and bland. No yum cha size vegetables dish! First time I've seen yum cha without Chinese broccoli in oyster sauce. $30 for large vegetable dish - what?! They have split pork ribs and chicken feet, which is nice. But the pork ribs have barely any taro! Roast goose was well done without being dry and beef tripe was cooked to tenderness. Reasonably priced.

Food was great but some items were on the pricier side. The best part of the visit was definitely the roast goose which is quite hard to find in Sydney. Great service and atmosphere. Also there is a new supermarket in the restaurant which I found quite strange but it offers a variety of Asian goods, okay value.

We tried a few dishes and they were generally good. Fish skin dish was something new to me. Nice and chewy. I like the roast goose, very meaty. Staff members were friendly and nice to us. Interesting fried milk dish too.

The yumcha food was okay, some dishes were decent but others didn't hit the mark. Some of the pancakes and meat ball was good but the siu mainly was definitely lower quality. The fried dishes were not consistent and you could tell that the quality differed between tables. Overall, pretty average but there are some good things. The goose is pretty mediocre but there are lots of good reviews about it so I probably just have higher standards as I've had good roast duck and goose in the past. In terms of service, there was only 1 lady (who worked the cash register) that smiled and gave good service - none of the other servers were interested at all.

I am a very regular customers here for so many years. But, I will not coming back here any more after today. I came to the restaurant at 7.30 pm, today is Saturday but it wasn’t busy at all. I stand next to the counter for about 15’ and no bossy even say hello or ask me to sit down or find the table for me like I normally had been served before. 5 china lady họ past me but she didn’t even ask me. Even the lady behind receiption. I wondered if they closed. Suddenly, a couple of Chinese customer came in and they had been served straight away and had table and sit down. And she still didn’t ask me anything. I was so upset as I had been waiting around 20’ already. I asked the receiption lady “ are you close or still open” and she said “ oh, we open” and I said then why none of you even ask me or say hello to me. Then finally, I can sit down. Unfortunately, it wasn’t finish one lady left a hot pot of tea on the chair where we sit down and forgot about that. So, when my daughter came and pull the chair out the whole pot of boiling hot tea drop on her leg. Her leg was burnt and she didn’t even say sorry to her. I want to talk to the manager about this but until I finish she didn’t even come and talk to me. It’s was terrible service. If My daughter get hurt I will take them to the court. It was very terrible service. I will not come back again. It wasn’t busy at all.

Surprisingly, the food is great! We came because we saw it in the Good Food Guide and were wondering why the Google rating was a bit low. But we think the food quality is excellent – we especially loved the seafood platter. We don’t normally eat much Chinese food, but this was a great experience. The waitress’s English was a little limited, but the service was still good and we were well looked after.

Super yummy food, comfortable ambience and awesome service! Portions are huge so don’t over order 🙂 Hope to be back for yum cha and eel next time!

I had the worst experience at this restaurant. I never thought the Chinese New Year event could taste so bad. The service was poor, with long wait times, and the food was cold when it was served to us. The New Year event menu featured low-quality food, yet they charged lobster prices. I've never tasted fish soup as horrible as this. We paid nearly $550 for those cheap-quality and cold food. If the food had been tasty, that would have been fine, but the flavor was awful. We ended up taking home almost 70% of the food. Definitely not worth going back. 🥹So disappointing for my Chinese New Year Eve experience