Chinese restaurants in Melbourne
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Camy Shanghai Dumpling Restaurant
If you like your dumplings hot and plentiful, your service simple, your surrounds no-nonsense and your bill bottom dollar, the Shanghai is your Shangri-La. Fifteen dumplings for six bucks is hard to beat – it’s as Chinatown as it gets.
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Flower Drum
The Flower Drum continues to be Melbourne’s most celebrated Chinese restaurant. The finest, freshest produce prepared with absolute attention to detail keeps this Chinatown institution booked out for weeks in advance. The sumptuous but ostensibly simple Cantonese food is delivered with the slick service you’d expect in such elegant surrounds.
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Oriental Tea House
They’ve ditched the trolley ritual, but David Zhou’s intriguing Shanghainese offerings are just as good à la carte as off the cart. (And they still do the kid-pleasing lurid jellies for dessert.) The bright refit of an old pub is a departure from the norm too. The excellent teashop is worth a concerted postprandial browse.
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Gingerboy
Seriously trendy and touched by the disco god, Gingerboy indulges demanding city punters with aromatic cocktails and superb and contemporary Asian hawker dishes. Mains include peppered swordfish tataki or sweet and sour pork belly.
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Old Kingdom
The queues are here for three things: duck soup, Peking duck, and duck and bean shoots. The owner’s one-man show is a bonus, as is the classic no-style décor. You’ll need to preorder for Peking duck.
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Seamstress
Start off with a cocktail under a canopy of tiny qipao on the top floor, then make your way downstairs to the dining room for some contemporary Chinese cooking. The food – coconut and roe rice balls, curly-fried snapper or Onkaparinga venison with Szechuan pepper and a Chinese wine reduction – is as delicious as it sounds. The 19th-century warehouse, complete with rickety wooden stairs, is fabulously atmospheric. Their basement bar Sweatshop could be on the cards when you’re done.
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Dainty Sichuan
This hidden restaurant has a cult-like following and might just claim you too, if you like it hot. Chilli oil, dried chillies, ground chilli seeds, Sichuan peppercorns and well, chillies, join other less than dainty flavourings such as peanuts and vinegar to give you a range of pork, chicken and beef dishes that will rock your world. Bookings advised.
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Sungs Kitchen
This bright and bustling pan-Chinese restaurant offers a beyond standard selection of authentic food, including a whole range of duck dishes (tea-smoked is a favourite) and some interesting vegetarian offerings. They do yum cha and have an extensive tea menu including those with pretty floating flowers.
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Lau’s Family Kitchen
Tucked into a leafy location, Lau’s serves a mainly Cantonese menu. Dishes are beautifully done if not particularly exciting, with a few surprises thrown in for more adventurous diners. Super-attentive staff and the moody dark interior make for a great night out.
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Pacific Seafood BBQ House
Seafood in tanks and script-only menus on coloured craft paper make for an authentic, fast and fabulous dining experience. Tank-fresh fish is done simply, perhaps steamed with ginger and greens, and washed down with Chinese beer. Book, or be ready to queue.
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Supper Inn
No-one minds queuing on the stairs to wait for a high-turnover table in the unglamorous upstairs dining room (especially as downstairs is cramped and clamorous). Bored waiters dressed in black and white, and dated décor don’t detract: you’re here for the top-quality Cantonese food. Open until 2.30am, Supper Inn is also a favoured after-drinks stop.
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