Dishes cooked with a nod to authenticity
For a city as obsessed with food as Sydney is, it's surprising how few good hole-in-the-wall joints we actually boast. Albee's is a welcome addition to the small Malaysian food scene where dishes cooked with a nod to authenticity are prized above location and water views.
There are specials written in Chinese with obscure translations such as the mystifying 'Rice Drops Serve in Hot Pot'. There are brusque staff who may or may not greet you with a bowl of complimentary broth (if none is forthcoming a gentle reminder should produce results). There are smoking woks, a few old aunties and boxes and boxes of produce. There's also a fridge full of cold, sweet herbal tea (only $1 a glass) and if you ask nicely on your way out they'll sell you a jug of it to take home.
The menu is short and sharp, with set meals that seem very popular with the predominantly Asian crowd. The nasi lemak pops with flavour. It's a plate of coconut rice, beef rendang, oily onion sambal, flash-fried ikan bilis and peanuts balanced with five (count them) thin slices of cucumber. You might expect it to be a greasy mess but you'd be mistaken: the mix of flavour and texture is like a well balanced punch to the mouth.
Char kuey teow is a smoky jumble of flat rice noodles, bits of Chinese sausage, crunchy prawns and softly scrambled egg, all bound by a touch of chilli and a good glug of ketchup manis. Albee's char kuey teow substitutes pippies for those hard-to-get blood cockles. It's not the real deal, but full points for trying.
Vegetarians don't miss out either. Stir-fried kangkong (water spinach) is a pungent, funky treat, and the imaginatively named Four Treasure Vegetable (green beans, okra, eggplant and petai beans) flavoured with chilli sambal is a jackpot of heat and freshness.
The food's fantastic and the prices are wallet-friendly. Check it out soon.
Campsie 2194
Telephone 02 9718 8302
Price per person including drinks Up to $50
Open Lunch Mon-Fri 11am-3pm; dinner 5-10pm, Sat & Sun 11am-10pm
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I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. I went last week, in June12. Not sure if the chefs left cos the food pic above did not match what we ate. FOOD: kfc anyone? ask yourself if a Malyasian restaurant cant get Laska right plus they don't have roti bread! its more like a chinese style restaurant with sub par Malysian food Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, Not rich in flavour creamy coconut/chilli you get at chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. SERVICE: more friendly if you buy a bubble tea, if you order water forget it. AMBIENCE: i didnt expect white table cloths but I am use to asian bistro dining but seriously....more comfortable squatting in rufugee boat from Vietnam, my girlfriend and I had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp with 6 ugly mainlanders table in like refugees.
Posted on Mon 11 Jun 2012 02:32:20
I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. I went last week, in June12. Not sure if the chefs left cos the food pic above did not match what we ate. FOOD: kfc anyone? ask yourself if a Malyasian restaurant cant get Laska right plus they don't have roti bread! its more like a chinese style restaurant with sub par Malysian food Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, Not rich in flavour creamy coconut/chilli you get at chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. SERVICE: more friendly if you buy a bubble tea, if you order water forget it. AMBIENCE: i didnt expect white table cloths but I am use to asian bistro dining but seriously....more comfortable squatting in rufugee boat from Vietnam, my girlfriend and I had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp with 6 ugly mainlanders table in like refugees.
Posted on Mon 11 Jun 2012 02:32:20
I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. I went last week, in June12. Not sure if the chefs left cos the food pic above did not match what we ate. FOOD: kfc anyone? ask yourself if a Malyasian restaurant cant get Laska right plus they don't have roti bread! its more like a chinese style restaurant with sub par Malysian food Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, Not rich in flavour creamy coconut/chilli you get at chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. SERVICE: more friendly if you buy a bubble tea, if you order water forget it. AMBIENCE: i didnt expect white table cloths but I am use to asian bistro dining but seriously....more comfortable squatting in rufugee boat from Vietnam, my girlfriend and I had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp with 6 ugly mainlanders table in like refugees.
Posted on Mon 11 Jun 2012 02:32:20
I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. I went last week, in June12. Not sure if the chefs left cos the food pic above did not match what we ate. FOOD: kfc anyone? ask yourself if a Malyasian restaurant cant get Laska right plus they don't have roti bread! its more like a chinese style restaurant with sub par Malysian food Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, Not rich in flavour creamy coconut/chilli you get at chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. SERVICE: more friendly if you buy a bubble tea, if you order water forget it. AMBIENCE: i didnt expect white table cloths but I am use to asian bistro dining but seriously....more comfortable squatting in rufugee boat from Vietnam, my girlfriend and I had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp with 6 ugly mainlanders table in like refugees.
Posted on Mon 11 Jun 2012 02:32:20
I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. I went last week, in June12. Not sure if the chefs left cos the food pic above did not match what we ate. FOOD: kfc anyone? ask yourself if a Malyasian restaurant cant get Laska right plus they don't have roti bread! its more like a chinese style restaurant with sub par Malysian food Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, Not rich in flavour creamy coconut/chilli you get at chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. SERVICE: more friendly if you buy a bubble tea, if you order water forget it. AMBIENCE: i didnt expect white table cloths but I am use to asian bistro dining but seriously....more comfortable squatting in rufugee boat from Vietnam, my girlfriend and I had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp with 6 ugly mainlanders table in like refugees.
Posted on Mon 11 Jun 2012 02:32:20
I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. I went last week, in June12. Not sure if the chefs left cos the food pic above did not match what we ate. FOOD: kfc anyone? ask yourself if a Malyasian restaurant cant get Laska right plus they don't have roti bread! its more like a chinese style restaurant with sub par Malysian food Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, Not rich in flavour creamy coconut/chilli you get at chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. SERVICE: more friendly if you buy a bubble tea, if you order water forget it. AMBIENCE: i didnt expect white table cloths but I am use to asian bistro dining but seriously....more comfortable squatting in rufugee boat from Vietnam, my girlfriend and I had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp with 6 ugly mainlanders table in like refugees.
Posted on Mon 11 Jun 2012 02:32:20
I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. I went last week, in June12. Not sure if the chefs left cos the food pic above did not match what we ate. FOOD: kfc anyone? ask yourself if a Malyasian restaurant cant get Laska right plus they don't have roti bread! its more like a chinese style restaurant with sub par Malysian food Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, Not rich in flavour creamy coconut/chilli you get at chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. SERVICE: more friendly if you buy a bubble tea, if you order water forget it. AMBIENCE: i didnt expect white table cloths but I am use to asian bistro dining but seriously....more comfortable squatting in rufugee boat from Vietnam, my girlfriend and I had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp with 6 ugly mainlanders table in like refugees.
Posted on Mon 11 Jun 2012 02:32:20
I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. I went last week, in June12. Not sure if the chefs left cos the food pic above did not match what we ate. FOOD: kfc anyone? ask yourself if a Malyasian restaurant cant get Laska right plus they don't have roti bread! its more like a chinese style restaurant with sub par Malysian food Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, Not rich in flavour creamy coconut/chilli you get at chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. SERVICE: more friendly if you buy a bubble tea, if you order water forget it. AMBIENCE: i didnt expect white table cloths but I am use to asian bistro dining but seriously....more comfortable squatting in rufugee boat from Vietnam, my girlfriend and I had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp with 6 ugly mainlanders table in like refugees.
Posted on Mon 11 Jun 2012 02:32:20
I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. I went last week, in June12. Not sure if the chefs left cos the food pic above did not match what we ate. FOOD: kfc anyone? ask yourself if a Malyasian restaurant cant get Laska right plus they don't have roti bread! its more like a chinese style restaurant with sub par Malysian food Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, Not rich in flavour creamy coconut/chilli you get at chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. SERVICE: more friendly if you buy a bubble tea, if you order water forget it. AMBIENCE: i didnt expect white table cloths but I am use to asian bistro dining but seriously....more comfortable squatting in rufugee boat from Vietnam, my girlfriend and I had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp with 6 ugly mainlanders table in like refugees.
Posted on Mon 11 Jun 2012 02:32:20
I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. I went last week, in June12. Not sure if the chefs left cos the food pic above did not match what we ate. FOOD: kfc anyone? ask yourself if a Malyasian restaurant cant get Laska right plus they don't have roti bread! its more like a chinese style restaurant with sub par Malysian food Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, Not rich in flavour creamy coconut/chilli you get at chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. SERVICE: more friendly if you buy a bubble tea, if you order water forget it. AMBIENCE: i didnt expect white table cloths but I am use to asian bistro dining but seriously....more comfortable squatting in rufugee boat from Vietnam, my girlfriend and I had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp with 6 ugly mainlanders table in like refugees.
Posted on Mon 11 Jun 2012 02:32:20
I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. I went last week, in June12. Not sure if the chefs left cos the food pic above did not match what we ate. FOOD: kfc anyone? ask yourself if a Malyasian restaurant cant get Laska right plus they don't have roti bread! its more like a chinese style restaurant with sub par Malysian food Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, Not rich in flavour creamy coconut/chilli you get at chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. I Would not go back and would not recommend this place. SERVICE: more friendly if you buy a bubble tea, if you order water forget it. AMBIENCE: i didnt expect white table cloths but I am use to asian bistro dining but seriously....more comfortable squatting in rufugee boat from Vietnam, my girlfriend and I had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp with 6 ugly mainlanders table in like refugees.
Posted on Mon 11 Jun 2012 02:32:20
Tastemaster Your comment is awaiting moderation. June 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp in like rufugees Not rich in flavour cOmpared to chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. Would not go back Reply
Posted on Sun 10 Jun 2012 04:54:18
Tastemaster Your comment is awaiting moderation. June 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp in like rufugees Not rich in flavour cOmpared to chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. Would not go back Reply
Posted on Sun 10 Jun 2012 04:54:18
Tastemaster Your comment is awaiting moderation. June 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp in like rufugees Not rich in flavour cOmpared to chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. Would not go back Reply
Posted on Sun 10 Jun 2012 04:54:18
Tastemaster Your comment is awaiting moderation. June 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp in like rufugees Not rich in flavour cOmpared to chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. Would not go back Reply
Posted on Sun 10 Jun 2012 04:54:18
Tastemaster Your comment is awaiting moderation. June 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp in like rufugees Not rich in flavour cOmpared to chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. Would not go back Reply
Posted on Sun 10 Jun 2012 04:54:18
Tastemaster Your comment is awaiting moderation. June 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp in like rufugees Not rich in flavour cOmpared to chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. Would not go back Reply
Posted on Sun 10 Jun 2012 04:54:18
Tastemaster Your comment is awaiting moderation. June 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp in like rufugees Not rich in flavour cOmpared to chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. Would not go back Reply
Posted on Sun 10 Jun 2012 04:54:18
Tastemaster Your comment is awaiting moderation. June 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp in like rufugees Not rich in flavour cOmpared to chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. Would not go back Reply
Posted on Sun 10 Jun 2012 04:54:18
Tastemaster Your comment is awaiting moderation. June 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm Probably the worst seafood laksa i tried in sydney, it was like a curry pasta chinese style soup. You get better laksas in food court, had to walk past the kitchen to sit cramp in like rufugees Not rich in flavour cOmpared to chinese maly on hunter st city. The nasi lemak beef the rice was luke warm and beef not that tender. Would not go back Reply
Posted on Sun 10 Jun 2012 04:54:18