Little Alice Yum Cha

Little Alice Yum Cha brings a breezy dumpling bar sensibility to Manly’s South Steyne, with ocean views that sparkle as brightly as the bamboo baskets. The second outpost from Alice Dumpling, it leans into the Northern Beaches rhythm: casual, sunlit and made for sharing, where steamers drift to the table and the sea breeze does the rest.

The kitchen keeps its compass set on beloved yum cha flavours. Silky har gow and pork and prawn shao mai lead the opening act, followed by pan-fried pork buns or pillowy barbecue pork buns. There is comforting chicken and sweet corn soup, wontons glossed in chilli oil, and a playful Beijing roast duck roti that nods east and west in one bite.

From the wok come dishes built for feasting: sizzling Mongolian beef and lamb, satay chicken, and crispy chicken Shandong style. Seafood sings with ginger and shallot, while vegetables have their own headline moments in crispy eggplant with sweet Sichuan-style sauce and mapo tofu. Fried rice is fragrant and familiar, and the finale swings nostalgic with mango pancake and deep-fried ice cream.

Gather the crew, claim a sea-view perch and let the baskets roll. Little Alice is ready when you are - chopsticks at the ready and tides of flavour in tow.