Chinatown is throwing its own festival of light, music and food with Neon Playground 2.0

Chinatown's epic Neon Playground festival will return in 2025

Did you miss Vivid Sydney earlier this year? Not to worry, Chinatown will have its own festival of light, music, art and entertainment in March 2025 with the return of Neon Playground 2.0. The multifaceted lifestyle and arts festival will return for its second year after a successful debut in 2022 saw Dixon Street washed … Read more

Chinatown now has Sydney’s largest all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ buffet

Butcher's Buffet is now the largest Korean BBQ restaurant in Chinatown

A total of 60 Korean BBQ stations have arrived in Chinatown for the opening of Sydney’s fifth, and largest, Butcher’s Buffet. Butcher’s Buffet has been one of Sydney’s most popular Korean BBQ restaurants since 2019, with several outposts across Sydney. This new Chinatown edition, however, measures at 500-square-metres with capacity for 200 diners at a … Read more

12 of the best cheap eats and drinks

Untied cocktails cheap eats

Sometimes the best eats are the cheapest. And while Sydney isn’t at the centre of South-East Asia, or anywhere near the streets stalls of the Indian sub-continent, or the aromatic wok stations of China, many of our migrant population have taken their cheap eats to new shores. There are varying levels, from inexpensive fried chicken … Read more