Hanasuki

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Hanasuki. (2026, October 21). The Sydney Morning Herald. https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/nsw-good-food-guide/hanasuki-chatswood-20240202-p5f21a.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

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Hanasuki is a Japanese restaurant in Sydney specializing in shabu shabu and sukiyaki, offering diners a choice of four broths and various meat and vegetable platters to cook at their table. The establishment provides ponzu and sesame dipping sauces along with mochi kinchaku for dessert. The minimalist yet elegant decor complements the communal dining experience enhanced by sake and umeshu served throughout the meal.

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As of October 21, 2026, Hanasuki, an upscale Japanese shabu shabu and sukiyaki specialist in Sydney, has been gaining attention for its unique dining experience. When it first opened, it was seen as filling a gap in the city's culinary scene with its focus on premium produce cooked in simmering broths. The restaurant offers diners four broth options including mushroom and kombu-based signature choices. Each meal can be customized with various "delicious plates" such as wagyu beef cuts or a mini seafood platter that includes oysters, scallops, and prawn paste which cooks into dumplings.

The dining space is minimalist yet inviting, featuring wood and beaten copper decor, complemented by sake and umeshu drinks. Diners can also order mochi kinchaku for dessert. For those who want to extend their meal, waiters offer the option of turning leftover broth into zousui by adding rice and an egg.

This establishment has been praised in The Good Food Guide for its creative approach to a traditional Japanese dining style, making it a notable addition to Sydney's restaurant scene.

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Hanasuki Hansuki Sydney the Good Food Guide

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If it’s your first visit, staff make things easy: choose one of four broths from a handy printout – mushroom, say, or the delicate kombu-based signature – add a cartoonishly bountiful platter of vegetables, then add your “delicious plates”: a selection of wagyu, perhaps, featuring marbled chuck roll, sirloin and knuckle, or a mini seafood platter, with oyster, scallops and prawn paste, which cooks into dumplings in the simmering broth.

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🔮 When Hansuki opened it felt like exactly what Sydney was missing: an upscale shabu shabu restaurant, where diners could sate their appetite for platters of premium produce to swish through simmering broth.

2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

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When Hansuki opened it felt like exactly what Sydney was missing: an upscale shabu shabu restaurant, where diners could sate their appetite for platters of premium produce to swish through simmering broth. uncertain

diners → open → broth

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Who → know → ?

which → ’ → broth

Ponzu and sesame sauces are on hand for dipping, and mochi kinchaku are an essential, bursting add-on. asserted

kinchaku → burst → dipping

The space, dressed in wood and beaten copper, may be minimalist, but this is maximal enjoyment, made for sharing with sake and umeshu on hand, right through to the last swish. uncertain

this → dress → swish

Good Food reviews are booked anonymously and paid independently. asserted

reviews → book → ?

A restaurant can’t pay for a review or inclusion in the Good Food Guide. asserted

restaurant → pay → Guide