🥟 Best yum cha in Australia

14 cities ranked by the strength of their best yum cha. Follow any city through to its full ranked list.

● Updated September 2026

The verdict: on the numbers, Sunshine Coast has Australia’s strongest yum cha — led by Dee Den Restaurant (4.8★ across 2,205 Google reviews).

#	City	Its best yum cha	Rating	Reviews
1	Sunshine Coast	Dee Den Restaurant Buderim	4.8★	2,205
2	Cairns	Malatang Noodles Cairns City	4.8★	2,016
3	Melbourne	Golden Dragon Palace Templestowe	4.2★	1,373
4	Adelaide	Ding Hao CBD	4.1★	936
5	Gold Coast	Yum Cha Cuisine Harbour Town Biggera Waters	4.1★	1,233
6	Darwin	Cha Ching Melbourne	4.7★	2,625
7	Hobart	Me Wah Restaurant Sandy Bay	4.4★	845
8	Brisbane	Steamed Brisbane City	4.5★	249
9	Newcastle	Light Years - Newcastle CBD	4.7★	1,632
10	Wollongong	K.malu Kitchen and Bar CBD	4.8★	589
11	Geelong	BAAH LAH! Dining Geelong West	4.8★	478
12	Perth	Fortune Five Chinese Restaurant Northbridge	4.3★	1,540
13	Sydney	Palace Chinese Restaurant CBD	3.9★	1,049
14	Canberra	Dumpling Inn Restaurant Macquarie	4.2★	273

How this national table is built: it is not a separate opinion. Each city contributes the venue that currently tops its own yum cha ranking, and the cities are then ordered by that venue’s score — review strength above a 3.8 baseline weighted by review volume, plus community mentions where we hold them. Cities are only listed where we actually rank the dish, so an absent city means no ranking yet, not a bad one. Rebuilt weekly.

City by city: Sunshine Coast · Cairns · Melbourne · Adelaide · Gold Coast · Darwin · Hobart · Brisbane · Newcastle · Wollongong · Geelong · Perth · Sydney · Canberra.