Sea Bay

The blue heroin-chic lighting, room-length mirrors and tiled everything don’t exactly create a cosy haven, but stubbornly low prices and decent-quality food have kept Sea Bay on the map. It’s the Bert Newton of Chinatown: endearing, enduring and pleasantly daggy. The menu covers soups, stir-fries, noodles, salads and dumplings; highlights include beef soup with handmade noodles and a clean, satisfying broth, and peppery nuggets of lip-tingling deep-fried pork that’s surprisingly juicy inside. Boiled, fried or steamed dumplings will scratch that itch, while a glossy dish of fried eggplant with ‘special’ sauce is so loaded with sugar it doubles as dessert. Tastes good though.