Fu-Manchu

Had a quick bite for dins last night. Service was great and the food was yummy. Good vegetarian selection. Had the steamed wontons and the veg tofu curry with roti. Best roti I’ve had in a long time.

Excellent restaurant with delicious dishes. The scallop and prawn dumplings are fantastic. Also the nyonya chicken curry with roti is to die for. Highly recommended.

This was one of my favorite places in Sydney!
This is a really cool and funky Asian fusion kinda place. They have a wide list of items on the menu and some very healthy choices as well. A great place for a large group. The service was a bit slow but in a group that worked out very well for us — more time to chat.
We ordered several dishes to share amongst the 7 of us. The one dish that stood out for me was the beef tenderloin wok fry with ginger garlic. Its heavenly! I could have ate the whole thing myself.
The best secret is the bar in the back of the restaurant. Super cool drinks and very exclusive feeling.
I will never forget this place and it will be on my short list to return to.

Trout was great. Good atmosphere. Prices weren’t out of control. Ginger tea was awesome.
I was only ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ on the duck wraps.

When some friends of ours were in town from Dubbo for Anzac day we were looking for somewhere special after having a few beers at the Tilbury. True to form, Fu Manchu came through.
I love the atmosphere in this restaurant, always busy and vibrant within its beautifully designed mess hall style. The food never fails to impress — it’s always consistent and delicious.
And it’s terrific how they have a sense of humor with the names they give the dishes. Where else can you get Lucky Lobster, Auspicious Beef, Prosperous Fish or Longevity Noodles?

Went there with 2 friends in December 2012. The owners have been very good a creating a good looking place in a very cool location. You get very funky settings /​decoration, and the staff is super nice. However, the food somehow disappoints for the price point. The menu is a mix of chinese /​malay and has the right balance, but somehow the flavours just didn’t make it pass 3 stars for me.

I’m fast coming to love this funky little local restaurant. The food is great, an interesting twist on the usual asian restaurants around the city. The curries are interesting, and as a bonus they actually serve brown rice (I love brown rice, both tastier and healthier then steamed rice).
But the real reason I love this place is the dumplings. Ok, so they are not in the same league as Din Tai Fung, but I’m easily pleased by, well, pretty much any dumpling and the ones here are very tasty.
The food is perhaps slightly pricier then you would normally pay (and much pricier then you would pay in China Town), but then again this place is located in the middle of Darlinghurst, and is a completely different experience — as is Spice I am down the road. I can happily eat a full meal here (no drinks) for about $ 30.

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The vegetarian sang choi bao was delicious and definitely the highlight. Chow mein and chinese fried rice were both tasty and the nyonya chicken and potato curry was satisfying, although there wasn’t much of it to go around. So why then after slurping and stirring and wrapping was I not completely content with my meal? There’s no doubt it was delicious. But $ 65 for 4 dishes delicious? Mmm… me thinks not.
But there was one element that completely impressed me — an entire menu dedicated to safe ordering for coeliacs, specifically breaking down which dishes are a-​ok and which dishes are in cooked in a deep fryer that has contact with wheat products. This is undeniably cool.

Sugar coated review: Oh my god!!! (insert Kim kardasians’ accent) thats like the best like dinner that I’ve had like a long time. And it’s like so much like fun sitting on like the chairs and like it doesn’t like cover my big ass and stuff and like i like it and like the food is fresh and like …
Honest review: a reasonable restaurant that caters for coeliacs like me. Gluten free options, medium priced, honest ingredients and slow service (with that being said I gave it 4 stars, so have that in your pipe and smoke it, haters!).
Free wi-​fi. That’s handy! I can download my dirty films when I have dinner and they are all ready when I get home for viewing.

Thinking about the Sang Choi Bao ($ 13) at Fu Manchu is enough to get me excessively drooling. I am so glad a friend of mine shared one of hers with me all that time ago because now when I come here I encourage other friends to try them too. Everybody is just as impressed as I am. The fresh prawn rice paper rolls with chilli dipping sauce and Beijing vegetarian dumplings are also staples. The Beef Tenderloin Fillet Fry ($ 20) is tasty but the Mixed Asian Greens ($ 10) is uninspiring.
The menu is a little pricier than you would find elsewhere and you may find yourself leaving still relatively hungry. But if you order more (like I usually do) or come on a night when you are not incredibly hungry to begin with, then the quality of food should impress you.
The restaurant is BYO and also has a coeliac friendly gluten-​free menu and options for kids. The only issue I have with this place is the menu layout. I think it would be more successful if the dishes had a bit more description in terms of the sauces rather than just the main ingredient.

I became familiar with this Chinese restaurant before I went there. Such is the power of word of mouth. It wasn’t a terribly exciting or even positive introduction. And it had absolutely no relationship to the food. It was the stools. The red stools that people sit on. And I got word that they were supremely uncomfortable.
I didn’t follow up on the critique (made by a friend) and in fact forgot about the restaurant altogether. It wasn’t until my partner and I happened to be walking around Darlinghurst around dinner time at a later date that I remembered about the comment (which would surely put a black mark on any restaurant’s name).
And yet, it was delightful. We were the first ones there — so early in fact that we lingered outside like miscreants while the staff were eating their dinner — and avoided the stools altogether, and instead sat at the two person table further toward the kitchen. We ordered the Beijing Dumplings (lamb and vegetarian), the steamed vegetarian buns, hainan chicken rice and the nyonya chicken and potato curry with two pots of brown rice. Mostly everything was outstanding. The only thing that didn’t surpass our expectations wildly was the Hainan chicken rice. The rest was so incredibly good that we’ve gone back twice since (take-​away).
The staff were also incredibly accommodating and take note that they have a vegetarian menu as well as a Coeliac one.
As for those infamous stools, on our last visit there to pick up our take-​away we saw Hugo Weaving sitting on one of them at the far end of the communal table eating his dinner. If it’s good enough for Hugo Weaving.