For our last day in Sydney before driving to Brisbane, we had a northern style Chinese lunch, wandered around the University of Technology Sydney and the Powerhouse Museum, and finished the day with a quick visit to the inner west suburb of Newtown.
For our last day in Sydney before departing for Brisbane, we got a late start. We decided to have lunch in Chinatown, and had heard about Chinese Noodle Restaurant as specializing in northern style food. We wandered around Quay Street looking for a storefront and eventually walked around a corner to find a plaza with multiple restaurants.
The exterior of the restaurant was modest. When I saw the short stools, I knew that we were in for a Beijing-style experience.
The tapestries on the wall seemed foreign to us as Southern Chinese.
Adam and Eric said that the grape leaves hanging from the ceiling mimicked a natural form of cooling in China.
Having left Beijing less than 2 weeks earlier, Eric led ordering from the menu. We asked for the meat and the noodles to not be too spicy.
The dumplings were definitely a northern style. Continue reading “2009/07/08 Chinese Noodle Restaurant; University of Technology, Sydney; Powerhouse Museum; Newtown“
