The restaurant in Sydney s Chinatown is frequented by politicians and business leaders and is famous for their late night banquets but slid into administration in August amid lockdown.
Celebrating 190 years of Sydney dining
Jill Dupleix and Terry Durack
Apr 19 2021 at 5:05 PM
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Photo: Marco Del Grande Chef Clayton Donovan at the Jaaning Tree, Nambucca Heads.
Photo: SMH Chef David Thompson (left) and assistant Tanongsak Yordwai with fresh produce at Darley Street Thai in Newtown.
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Join our guided tour to the pivotal movements and moments that have made this city one of the world s tastiest.
And then there were none. It s hard to believe but just last year more than 16 million people - 4 million of them from overseas - visited pre-pandemic Sydney. It prompted a thought: surely that lot was onto something.
It also prompted pangs of what I may have been missing during these long, torturous months of the pandemic after having done my damnedest to escape the city and explore the rest of the state.
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