sydney seoul sisters: The Mandoo Strathfield

Each Chinese New Year, our mothers would make Madu dumpling soup ( mandu guk ) with rice cake noodles. Its a Korean tradition. There would be trays and trays of these dumplings lovingly handmade from scratch. Its a complete labour of love and as we devour each manu as kids, we would literally feel ourselves growing bigger and stronger.

Korean dumplings are little different to Chinese dumplings and Japanese Gyoza. We use pork and cabbage too but we also include potato starch noodles and liberal use of garlic and ginger. They have this alluring smell when they are steaming that is quite comforting and reassuring.

There's this little corner eatery in Strathfield who make handmade Korean dumplings (Mandu ) and hand made noodles. Its really good. Just like our mothers used to make but it doesn't have to be New Years to enjoy them.

dumpling soup $10

There's different array of dumplings you can choose from, such as pork, vegetables, prawn and pork and Kimchi Dumplings. There are also handmade noodle soups and different array of cold noodles called nang-mien.

Combination mandu 2 pork, 2 Kimchi and 2 prawn mandu $15

We ordered The combination mandu, seafood Noodle soup non-spicy and dumpling soup. The mandu combinations came in the steamer and they were large, plump and delicious. The seafood noodle soup was refreshing, clean and noodles tender. The dumpling soup was our favourite as it had the taste of our mum's New Years manu guk with the beefy but white broth. The servings are very generous and you can also take away some of your favourite mandu.