Celebrate Lunar New Year with Darling Harbour's best Asian eats

In the serene surrounds of the Chinese Garden of Friendship, you’ll find One Dining, one of Sydney’s best Chinese restaurants. Their Yum Cha experience is a must-try, and especially their xiao long bao. These little pork dumplings are full of soup and burst with flavour as soon as you bite into them.

David Chang, one of the world’s most successful chefs, once called XOPP’s pippies the best dish in the world. He probably would have said the same thing about their Cantonese style dumplings if he’d tried them. There are five options on their lunchtime Yum Cha menu but we’d choose the delicate, steam prawn option every time.

Harajuku Gyoza Beer Stadium is just as awesome as it sounds. This massive warehouse-like venue serves crisp, Japanese style lager brewed on site, as well as incredible fried Japanese dumplings called Gyoza. We love them all but the cheeseburger gyoza is definitely our favourite.

The cuisine of Shanghai, China’s biggest city, is known for its subtle flavours, delicate aromas and vibrant colours. There’s nowhere better to try them than Lilong By Taste of Shanghai, where you’ll mark the menu with a pencil next to each item you want to order. Do yourself a favour and grab the steamed combo dumplings.

Tan Viet Noodle House serves an incredible Vietnamese pho bo tai, or pho with rare beef. But the best item on their menu has to be the crispy chicken with egg noodles - the chicken is just the right amount of salty and crispy and the noodles are the perfect accompaniment.

Chinta means love and Buddha means happiness, which describes exactly how we feel when we eat here. These guys serve authentic Malaysian Cantonese style cuisine in an expansive restaurant in Darling Square - including an incredible curry laksa in a punchy coconut based soup with succulent prawns.

Kao Kao takes the best bits of Korean, Chinese and Japanese cuisines and fuses them into one. We reckon the best item on their menu is the jjampong, a traditional Korean spicy noodle dish with a chilli and pork (or chicken) broth and delicious seafood morsels.

Hakatamon Ramen is without doubt one of the best ramen restaurants in Sydney. They keep it simple, serving authentic tonkatsu ramen from Japans’ Hokkaido region, with umami toppings like chashu, flavoured egg and nori.

Every item on the menu at MuMian is so delicious but one dish that's a 'must try' is their Pipi, XO Sauce with Pan Seared Vermicelli Noodle featuring juicy, flavourful little pipis slathered in a sweet, spicy and salty XO sauce. You can’t lose with this dish!

There is nothing more luxurious than eating a seafood feast with a panoramic view of the world’s most beautiful harbour (that’s Darling Harbour by the way). That’s precisely what you can do at Nick’s Seafood at Cockle Bay Wharf, who serve a phenomenal platter featuring crab, oysters, lobster, oysters and more.

It doesn’t get any fresher than the live seafood at XOPP. The highlight of their menu is the wok fried pippies in XO sauce, a dish David Chang called the best in the world. The pippies are succulent and briny, while the XO sauce is punchy, almost pungent and packed with chilli.