Taste of Shunde

15/20

Updated October 26, 2026,first published November 11, 2024

15/20

Taste of Shunde

Cantonese$$

Home of a classic food culture, and one of Sydney’s most incredible seafood dishes.

Many people know Shunde, if they know it at all, as Bruce Lee’s ancestral home, but this district of Foshan, in the heart of the Pearl River Delta, is renowned for something more: its food. Taste of Shunde, here and in Eastwood, is a chance to experience the greatest hits, starting with roasted goose shipped out on a scallop-edged platter, the skin burnished gold.

It’s not Hurstville’s finest goose (try Golden Sands), but it comes close, and the seafood is exceptional, particularly the bamboo platter, an epic life-long memory built around a whole steamed fish and sheet noodles, doused in fragrant sauces and topped with pipis and prawns. As a general rule, servings are double the standard size, with dishes best tackled between groups of six or eight. There are padded chairs for the oldies and play equipment for the young’uns. Multi-generational dining at its best.

Good to know: There’s a yum cha menu available during the day, and a grocer selling house-made produce (try the lap cheong) on the ground floor.

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Last visited: August 2026

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