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Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery & Vegetarian Restaurant

141 Queen Street, MelbournePhone 03 9642 2388Open for lunch only, Monday to Friday, 12 to 2:30pm

It is not often you find a place that so completely delights and relaxes you. And I felt this way the minute I walked through the doors at Fo Guang Yuan – a Buddhist teahouse, temple and [...]

Written by mellie on March 29th, 2007 | Tags: , , | 12 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Sambal Kampung

234 Little Bourke Street, MelbournePhone: 03 9663 2666

More cheap lunchtime fun in the Melbourne CBD.

It is funny how one’s perception changes. I always used to pity city workers, thinking them droll and automaton as they poured from the loop and straight into their office buildings. But I am now one of [...]

Written by mellie on March 21st, 2007 | Tags: , , , | 17 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Grilled Beef with Blackbean

Check out the artful chi-chi-poo-poo food styling done by EG. Note the upturned bowl of rice, the batons of broccolini and carrot fanned out ever so nicely. And then the best bit, slices of medium-rare rump, drizzled with made-from-scratch black bean sauce. My attempt at food styling was a friggin’ disgrace, so [...]

Written by mellie on March 12th, 2007 | Tags: , | 2 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Keong Hee Huat Chye

This year I was extremely honoured to be invited to EG’s Reunion Dinner to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The dinner is traditionally held on New Year’s Eve and is one of the most important Chinese holidays. Families get together to consume a number of dishes that promote prosperity and longevity for the forthcoming [...]

Written by mellie on February 17th, 2007 | Tags: | 7 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Shanghai Village

112 Little Bourke St, MelbournePhone (03) 9663 1878

Shanghai Village is as cheap and cheerful as you’re gonna get in this town. Located in Melbourne’s Chinatown district behind a heritage facade, you will be quite taken with it’s interior; hot pink walls, red leather/chrome seating, Chinese lantern lighting and a quirkiness that just [...]

Written by mellie on January 11th, 2007 | Tags: , | 19 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post
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