Ying Chow Chinese Restaurant

The yellow sign above the door of Ying Chow marks a fixture of Adelaide’s Gouger Street dining scene. Since the mid-nineteen nineties, this restaurant has served Cantonese dishes to locals who pack into the tight, bustling space late into the night. It earned a reputation among chefs and hospitality workers who head here after their own shifts end. Before this became a culinary hub, the building housed a dry cleaner, leaving behind few traces of its former life for the diners inside today.