Tag Archives for chinese
Footscray’s best buns
One of the great things about writing a foodblog is it can justify some pretty insane eating activities, like doing a ramen crawl around the city, or blind testing mince pies and banh mi. Recently, I decided it might be … Continue reading
Sung’s Kitchen
118 Franklin St, West Melbourne Phone: 9329 2636 When four of my bestest buddies moved interstate last year, I was a little worried that I would be lonely. Who was going to come with me to restaurants and trust me … Continue reading
Flavour town
Level 1, 202 Bourke St, Melbourne CBD Phone: 9663 1268 A few months ago, @eatnik’s pal @submelb gave us the scoop on a new hotpot joint. He was rather excited by it – to be fair, he’s a pretty excitable … Continue reading
Dumpling Den
88 Grattan St, Carlton Phone: 9347 7702 I believe that food comprises a large part of my memory. I remember my father introducing me to sardines in tomato sauce on toast for breakfast, and crunching on Sunnyboys at the local … Continue reading
Fake meat
I read (most of) Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals while I was on holiday in Malaysia, while eating my way to using a new notch on my belt. It made me think more closely about what I choose to eat, … Continue reading
Crazy wing
177 Russell St, Melbourne CBD Phone: 9663 6555 There seems to be a proliferation of new Chinese barbecue places in the last few months: Chinese Spicy and Barbie Kitchen, Crazy Wing and a new Oriental BBQ joint in Footscray to … Continue reading
A wedding banquet at Tao’s
201 Bulleen Road, Bulleen Phone: 9852 0777 My cousin Ivan got married recently. It was a joyous day, full of fun, sunshine and suckling pigs. Let’s kick this post off with a picture of one in the back seat of … Continue reading
Sun Kee
352-354 Chapel Street, South Yarra Phone: 9827 7110 My grandfather turned 93 this year. Ever since his 90th birthday, which I missed because I was in Viet Nam, but was apparently quite the to-do, each birthday celebration has become a … Continue reading
Yum Cha at Dai Duong
Shop 5/64 Hopkins St, Footscray Phone: 9689 9899 Regular readers of this blog will know that I, as a child of Chinese migrants, and as a thoroughly modern Melburnian, love yum cha. This Chinese version of brunch/lunch/morning tea is partly … Continue reading
Dainty Sichuan
176 Toorak Road, South Yarra Phone: 9078 1686 It’s been a long time between visits. The first – and until recently, the latest – time I visited Dainty Sichuan Food was in its first incarnation on Smith Street, in Collingwood. … Continue reading