Yin Li Sichuan Restaurant - Haymarket

The food was not the problem with this restaurant - it was ok - nothing fantastic, though. The problem is the disorganised chaos with the staff, and the systems in place they use to get orders to tables, and the disgusting way the senior staff treat the young wait staff. Upon arriving and walking upstairs, we waited at the top of the stairs to be seated.  Despite numerous vacant tables in the restaurant, we had to wait whilst staff cleaned the table right next to the entry - which as I later learnt was not the ideal place to sit as it was right next to the kitchen entry - so a constant throng of wait staff jostled past my seat. After being seated, I observed a middle aged Asian man (whom I later learnt was staff) poke a young Asian waitress in the ribs with enough force for me to tell from the look on her face it hurt quite a bit. I watched as her gait for the next few minutes revealed she was in ongoing pain from this. What a way to treat your staff. They have a peg system in place - old wooden clothes pegs, all moist - with black handwritten ink on them corresponding to table numbers.  When an order is ready from the kitchen, one of these pegs is placed on the side of each dish so the staff know what table the dish is to go to.  The pegs are not washed between use - If someone were to take a culture of the pegs or the edge of a dish the pegs have been on they'd see something interesting, I'm sure. Despite this system, I watched as several times staff delivered the wrong dish to the wrong table - diners dived their chopsticks from their mouths into the dish and took a few morsels only to have the dish whisked away by staff and taken to another table. Ewwww. When you place your order, they write it on a hand-written chit and leave it on the table. As each dish arrives, they cross it off the paper chit. It blows around and off the table constantly - most likely as we're near the entrance and have wake turbulence from the staff poked into action constantly by the mean senior staff. We'd ordered 3 simple dishes to share and a jug of club lemon - which amounted to $76.40 - somewhat expensive for what we got.  I would have expected about half that. It would take so little effort and change to make this restaurant a pleasure to dine at. I've put Yin Li Suchuan on my list of restaurants to recommend to people I don't like.

The food was not the problem with this restaurant - it was ok - nothing fantastic, though. The problem is the disorganised chaos with the staff, and the systems in place they use to get orders to tables, and the disgusting way the senior staff treat the young wait staff. Upon arriving and walking upstairs, we waited at the top of the stairs to be seated.  Despite numerous vacant tables in the restaurant, we had to wait whilst staff cleaned the table right next to the entry - which as I later learnt was not the ideal place to sit as it was right next to the kitchen entry - so a constant throng of wait staff jostled past my seat. After being seated, I observed a middle aged Asian man (whom I later learnt was staff) poke a young Asian waitress in the ribs with enough force for me to tell from the look on her face it hurt quite a bit. I watched as her gait for the next few minutes revealed she was in ongoing pain from this. What a way to treat your staff. They... read more

Where should I start. On record one of the worst restaurants I was in Sydney. Grief Grief The food (cashew chicken) was so salty that I had to drink a lot of water. Athe chicken tastes as if it were muddy and bad. The shrimp rice was also salty, but not so bad. Grief The service was unorganized to say the slightest. We ordered dumplings, and 2 tables that came for 20 minutes after we got their order of dumplings in front of us. The Wait staff even runs so confused from the table to the table, which did not know what the table had ordered, which often takes the food back to the kitchen. Grief Grief The prices are threatening for the offered food they offer. Unreasonable and unacceptable! Grief The Wait staff was friendly and did their best. This is definitely a case of poor management. Overall, they experience bad and leaves a bad taste in our mouth (literally and figuratively). I should have taken care of Previoua reviews before the stepping. Please note this advice. Grief Pictures are not worth taking

I love these places that were many chili and big spices in crazy ginger and spring onions delicious. The relief Sichuan was very tender and great taste. The chicken feet here is a specialty, but no game, but no game to try it. I would go back here again.

Do yourself a favor and avoid this restaurant at all price. We have the moment of determination to eat here on the way to a concert, and we have repeated it so much. Ridiculously overpriced (28 US dollars for vegetables) for the Abyzian small portions. Also the food that tasted like cardboard box is just avoiiiiiiiddddd !!!!!!!!