Caringbah Chinese Restaurant

We had dinner here the other night, and it wasn't bad. The food is your typical Westernised Chinese dishes like sweet and sour pork, Mongolian lamb, beef and black bean sauce etc. We tried a dish called rusty nails which is also known as rainbow beef or crispy peking beef strips. The flavours were good, but it wasn't crispy unfortunately. The combination chow mein was ok. Generous portion sizes and ok service.

I took my patents to this restaurant and they liked the food here. The salt pepper prawns were really juicy, from the colour I can tell they use fresh oil( not recycled). Other dishes are also impressive as below picture shows. The service was extraordinary! The waiter was very friendly & flexible, he can make recommendations according to our preferences. Definitely will visit this restaurant more often.

We are regulars but I was very disappointed with the lemon lime and bitters drinks, they must have pushed past the lime and bitters as they came to us almost clear. Very very poor, we all know that inflation is hitting but really? Go the local pub and see how it is made. My mates dish was literally half its normal size..more inflation cut costs ? Please don’t disappoint as we have had some very good meals these. But if it happens again we won’t be back.

After 25+ years of calling Man Lin Wah the best Chinese I’ve had and bench marking their short soup and satay chicken against any others in Australia, im sad to say that tonight was a different story. Having moved to Melbourne 8 years ago and eating here last time around 4-5 years ago when the food was as good as always, tonight being in Sydney I rushed to order my favorite Chinese food. I don’t know if there has been a change in ownership or chefs, but the food that was always consistently 10/10 was barely a 1/10 tonight. Satay chicken was bland with very little flavor and nowhere near the standard I recall. The short soup of which no other place in years could match, was also very far away from the usual standard. Very disappointing and I’d be interested you know if it’s new owners and chefs as it was so far off the usual standard.

Fabulous Chinese food with great service and easy dining ambience. Food is fresh, comes hot to the table and at a nice speed. Waiters will ask how you would Iike the dishes brought to you and in what selection which shows their enthusiasm to please. A variety of drinks are available including beer and spirits although the wine list is not extensive but BYO is an option anyway. All in all, a very pleasant restaurant which I highly recommend ✅💯 Colino1861