All the rice and noodle dishes are priced at $15, but they’re moderately sized so you can order several. Want to splash out?

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Deep-fried then fried again – this time in butter and the jammy yolks of salted duck eggs – Ho Jiak’s kiam ah nui kay might be Sydney’s most extravagant fried chicken. Every mouthful ...

The char kway teow Ho Jiak is legendary. The flat rice noodles are slippery and chewy and come tangled with thin slices of lap cheong, sweet prawns and hand-picked swimmer crab. There’s a ...

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A feast at Ho Jiak. Picture: Jenifer Jagielski Included in the five-course “favourites” meal is satays with peanut sauce, his famous laksa bombs, petite ice cream cones and more. Oui oui for ...

Two years ago, Ho Jiak Haymarket, a Malaysian restaurant in Sydney, introduced its “crossover” Indomie goreng ice cream. At about the same time, the ice cream store Holi Ice Cream claimed to ...