Monday, May 16, 2011

Fisherman's Wharf Chinese Restaurant, Pyrmont

Above the hustle and bustle of the Sydney Fish Markets lies...well, more hustle and bustle at the Fisherman's Wharf Chinese Restaurant's daily Yum Cha.

After my successful blogger blind-date at Luxe Bakery a few weeks ago, I was feeling very brave and decided that it would be a great idea to organise a mass food blogger gathering. Along with the lovely Laura, we decided that a Saturday morning Yum Cha would be just the ticket. Invites were sent out to the Twitterverse and we ended up with 21 food bloggers and a few of their long-suffering better halves.


Thanks to the over-eager trolley dollies piles and piles of food landed on our table within moments of everyone arriving, and we all happily snapped away before tucking into the feast that lay before us.  Dinning with a bunch of other food bloggers is GREAT as no-one gets mad when 40,000 pictures of each dish have to be taken.  No one gets upset when the food is less than hot when they finally get to eat it. 

The other great thing about dinning with such a large group is the sheer variety of food we got to sample. As well as the usual suspects of steamed dumplings, egg tarts and BBQ pork buns, I ventured into uncharted Yum Cha waters and sampled chicken feet as well as some unidentified wobbly pudding. 


Overall I was really impressed with the quality of the Yum Cha at Fisherman's Wharf - before The Boy and I had even finished eating we decided we'd be heading back here ASAP.

There was a heavy leaning towards seafood (a given seeing as we were AT the fish markets) which had a few bloggers pleading for something that didn't contain prawns, but everything was fresh and really tasty. There was quite a large variety of Yum Cha on offer and something to suit everyone...even our gluten-free bloggers went home full and satisfied which I thought was great.

My favourite dish was the Salt and Pepper Prawns - however I only manged to get one before the Lazy Susan whisked them away. The prawn wontons were also great - fat juicy prawn surrounded by a crispy wonton wrapper. Lovely. The Boy and I were also taken by the juicy and succulent BBQ duck.


Laura and I nearly fell of our seats when we saw the final bill -$643.40. OMG!!! But once the bill was divided between the 24 of us it was a respectable $27 each - very reasonable considering the amount of seafood that we consumed.

Fisherman's Wharf Chinese Restaurant is at 1 Bank Street, Pyrmont. You'll find the restaurant on the first floor of the Sydney Fish Markets (above the Fruit and Vege shop).

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20 comments:

  1. My first foodblogger outing a couple of years ago was also at yum cha. It's a great way to meet people, and take lots of photos, lol!

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  2. oh yay! a pic of me hard a work hehe :) and hats off to you for trying the chicken feet! i knew u would like it. next time, ill force u to try more wacky stuff like pig's blood XD

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  3. Way to go Mel - what an event!!! Well done!!!

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  4. oh mel, the bill did scare me. it was so delicious. whenever you want to return, let me know, i'm totally in.

    can you link my blog?

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  5. Oh no! I didn't get a chance to try the salt and pepper prawns!!

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  6. Lol, you're first chicken foot. I still remember Cheesecake Boy's reaction. He liked the taste, but still can't get over the texture. Did you enjoy it? I've been told that the yum there is lovely, must give it a go one of these days.

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  7. That sounds great Mel! We went the Fish Market on a previous trip to the big smoke & loved it, might have to go back & test the Yum Cha one of these days!

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  8. Wow! That's a lot of stamps.....! I've only been here once, and that was quite a while ago- the fish markets are so far away! :S It's pretty cool how you had so many people you had to join all the tables together...haha :D

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  9. that looks great mel! sorry i missed it! Did u enjoy the chicken feet?

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  10. yum yum yum. looks like loads of fun!

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  11. What an awesome event! Well done on the chickens feet - Im not a fan. Nice flavour but yeah I think its more mental than anything.
    I didnt know they had yum cha at the market. Awesome! Its like a 2for1 :) lol

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  12. I love how yum cha works out to be so little no matter how much you stuff yourself with yummy little morsels! :D

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  13. i so want to try this yum cha but can never seem to make it up the stairs before i've stuffed my face with seafood downstairs. hohum, the trials of a hungry hippo!

    http://thealimentarytrack.blogspot.com/

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  14. Looks like this was one hell of an event that you and Laura has organised. Kudos for the effort :)

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  15. I agree, the salt & pepper prawns were great. The wontons disappeared before I could score one, but I did manage to take a pic of them untouched.

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  16. Wantons were great and the pancakes (mango and cream) were my favourite! I could have happiy eaten just loads of them. I did try the chicken feet, ate one even, but the feeling of bone-knuckle-bone-knuckle was a bit freaky. My Mum loves them but then again she used to have them as a child. I didn't. That's why it's important to introduce kids to all sorts of foods. Sorry... I'm lecturing. Thanks for organising the outing.

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  17. Woweee that is one mega feast! Kudos to you for trying the chook feet! Still bummed that I was sick and missed out :( it looks like so much fun!!

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  18. Thanks again for organising xx
    yummy dim sum (cantonese for dim sim lol)

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  19. Wow what a feast! Looks like lots of fun - sad that I had to miss it :(

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  20. Hi Everyone - you know, I forgot to mention that the card was only one of two for our table. We actually had twice as many stamps...so much food, so much fun.

    Now Betty, I wouldn't say I loved the chicken feet, they were OK. You won't be getting me to try Pig's Blood though unless it is in one of Zumbo's macarons!

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