Two-hatted Melbourne Chinese restaurant is bringing its cult eggplant to Sydney
will open in Sydney next month, its arrival coinciding with a mini boom
in Chinese restaurants in the Harbour City.
The two-hatted Lee Ho Fook will land at Castlereagh Street in the Sydney CBD, hot on the heels of Grandfather's, a late-night Chinese restaurant near Martin Place from the team behind Clam Bar, and Potts Point's Young's Palace, which both open this week.
It'll be something of a homecoming for Lee Ho Fook's owner-chef,
Victor Liong, who grew up in Sydney before opening the award-winning
Lee Ho Fook in 2013. The Homebush-raised chef said he knew he'd
found Lee Ho Fook's Sydney home when he walked into the Dixson &
Sons restaurant at Porter House.
'We're in an old wool store in Melbourne, the building in Sydney (a
heritage listed former tobacco factory) was built around the same time,
there's the same exposed brick,' Liong said.
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