Recipe: Red Spice Road Pork Belly
The pork belly from Red Spice Road is iconic and now you can make it at home. Make it for your family or friends and I’m sure they’ll be impressed.
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Uncle 8
More places should be serving things on sticks. It’s delicious, easy to eat and there’s just something fun and interactive about choosing your skewers, having them bbq’d to order and having a bunch of sauces to dip them in, changing the flavour profile of each bite. Uncle 8 has recently opened in QV and that’s …
Bowl Bowl
Bowl Bowl is a little dumpling restaurant in Collingwood with lots of character. The mismatched colourful plating and wooden tables make this space unique. They have lots of Asian fare but specialise in dumplings. They even have vegetarian dumplings and gluten free ones too. We had the chilli chicken for entrée, it left us salivating …
8 Street
If you love Asian foods of all kinds you will be in foodie heaven at 8 street. It’s a hawker food market with food stalls from all different Asian countries including China, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Phillipines and Thailand. If you’ve been craving Asian food, look no further. We started with the vegetable pancake from BingBing …
Minh Minh Saigon Soul
The eating options are endless when you’re on Victoria street in Richmond but Minh Minh Saigon Soul is one that will keep you coming back. They specialise in traditional Vietnamese food and have a modern style when it comes to presentation. They have wine glasses on the tables for BYO or you can do what …
Tom Phat
Tom Phat has a new Spring menu and ordering a bunch of share plates is the way to go since you’re going to want to try everything. They have a focus on South East Asian flavours with some small plates to start with leading onto the larger plates. In the hot weather you need cold …
Basco Brunswick
Basco Brunswick does Mexican food with an Asian twist. It’s pretty ballsy doing fusion food because you’ve really gotta execute the flavours if you’re going to mix and match. At Basco Brunswick they do it well. Their tacos aren’t the traditional flavours but they have things like Korean fried chicken, duck with hoisin and crispy …
Bang Bang RC
It was once a rifle club but it has since been transformed into a bangin’ new Indochine restaurant called Bang Bang RC. They have an open outdoor space that is perfect for summer and the bang on fresh flavours awaken your tastebuds, leaving you drooling for more. We started our meal with a bang! Bright …
Night Noodle Markets 2015
This year at the night noodle markets there are some new stalls and some oldies. I have literally been everyday this weekend because there is so much amazing food in the one place and so why not. I couldn’t possibly have eaten everything in one day but I certainly wanted to. I dragged people out …
Lee Ho Fook
Lee Ho Fook is a modern Chinese restaurant that is still fairly new to the city, it’s been open for about 7 weeks. It was formerly a restaurant in Collingwood but has moved to duckboard place off Flinders lane in Melbourne. They serve Chinese food but it’s not your special fried rice, honey chicken kind …