Eastwood
Long famed for its food, this Sydney suburb is about to get a nightlife boost
Sydneysiders are increasingly looking beyond the CBD for a nightlife fix – and Eastwood is the next go-to.
- Cindy Yin
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‘Get this done ASAP’: Texts reveal woman’s horrific kidnap over secret tobacco codes
A Sydney woman was abducted, tortured and injected with a “date rape” drug in a terrifying escalation in the multimillion-dollar tobacco wars.
- Clare Sibthorpe
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- Traditional Cantonese Taste
Find slippery rice noodle roll made-to-order inside an Eastwood shopping centre
Rice noodles are steamed in a sheet, folded around fillings – prawn and scallop, say, or chicken and cordyceps flower – then served under a sweet soy sauce that soaks into all the crevices.
- David Matthews
- Recommended
- Dae Jang Kum
A Korean barbecue joint serving hard-to-find cuts of beef
Don’t skip the yukhoe, either, which sees Korea’s own beef tartare levelled up with a crisp puffed rice cracker for texture.
- David Matthews
- Recommended
- Getbawi
This Eastwood restaurant is the place to go for hoe (Korean raw seafood)
The specialty may be raw seafood, but there are plenty of other highlights from spicy blue swimmer crab hotpot to yukhoe tang tang.
- David Matthews
- Recommended
- Siroo Rice Cake Cafe
A specialty Korean rice cake shop serving songpyeon and injeolmi
Made each morning by owner Changhyun Lee, Siroo’s tteok are characteristically chewy, with the injeolmi – made with sticky rice and finished with roasted soybean powder – a signature.
- David Matthews
- Recommended
- Hwagae Banchan Shop
Get Korean BBQ ready at this banchan shop in Eastwood
Hwagae Banchan’s specialty is the array of side dishes, from spring onion kimchi to braised lotus root, that accompany a Korean meal.
- David Matthews
This site near a Sydney metro station could be home to hundreds. Instead, 50 people will work there
Minutes away from transport hubs is where a towering data centre – not apartments – could be built.
- Cindy Yin
