Shy John Brewery & Yum Cha

This place has to be one of the best tasting Chinese restaurants in Perth. Been coming back here countless times and each time it has been the same great tasting and consistent food. They now do crab 🦀 as well here but it was around $125 per kg. So quite pricey for mud crab so declined and ordered our little feast. Gave us a complimentary fried ice cream as well as it is somebody’s birthday 🥳 on Valentine’s Day ❤️

Really disappointed with our recent experience at this restaurant. We ordered several hot dishes which came out cold - including the pork belly. We requested a replacement pork belly dish because it was so cold that it was unpleasant to eat. The staff microwaved the original dish and brought it back out to us (pictured below). We had previously eaten at this restaurant when it first opened but I think it may have changed hands since then as the quality has unfortunately declined greatly.

Off for a night in the Fringe festival my wife booked this place for a dinner. From having a $5 beer, spirit of wine down stairs to the awesome food up stairs in the restaurant it was a great experience. Has a $5 rum which i loved so bought a bottle the next day, The Dead mans fingers spiced rum. We had the Duck san choy bao, Gyoza, Sui Mai and spring rolls. Mains where the Kong Po Chicken with great chilly flavors that got my friends hiccups going . This tells us the chili is good. Sweet and sour pork and saltfish/Chicken rice which tasted so good. So many times we have walked passed but not stopped here but we will be back for sure . Staff extremely friendly and helpful . Thanks for making the start of the night a good one.

The Shy John looked good. Thought we would try some place new. Started off not to badly, with the starters. But order the main and well that was a completely different story. We ordered the Honey Chicken not to bad/ the tea room chicken which oh my god bland as bland can be, the barramundi was well cooked but seasoning was lacking on all the food ordered. The vermimtino wine was / opened to long it tasted like vinegar.

Fantastic service. Everyone smiling and happy to greet you and say hello. We went for dinner with two kids and five adults. Our toddler was given her “own” special plastic bowl and cutlery. We ordered lots of dumplings, squid, duck was amazing, satay Skewers, san Chou bao and fried rices. All very tasty and fresh and didn’t take long at all to be served. We tried Summer ale and a grape beer. Not bad at all. Very impressed and definitely recommend you give it a visit. Great location in Yagan Square with grass and water near by for kids to muck around.

I’ve walked past here many times and always wanted to try it but usually end up elsewhere purely by chance. Unfortunately this was to be my first and only visit. I don’t really know how else to put it but the food was just terrible. An incredible amount of money for honey chicken, an incredibly simple dish of which you’ll find significantly better quality at most food court establishments for less than half the price. Everything tasted greasy and flavourless bar the taste of old oil, under seasoned and just... wrong. I rarely, if ever, give one star reviews purely for food quality (or at all, maybe I’ve been blessed in this regard) and it’s a shame because it seems like it could be a lovely restaurant, they certainly had some great music playing, the waitress was lovely and it has a nice atmosphere but we both (myself and dinner guest) walked away having barely touched our food and feeling quite worse for wear as well as royally ripped off.

Rated this place 4 out of 5; 5 for the beer and 3 for the food. The beer is very unique and well done. Mixing western and Asian flavors to come up with new styles and they are delicious. The food on the other hand is nothing special. The duck rolls had minuscule pieces of duck and the dumplings were average.