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Restaurant reviews: Hakkasan, Mayfair

By Madame Lapine | The Foodie World Contributing Blogger Hakkasan is a seductive Cantonese experience, with a twist. Starting from the extraordinary lighting on the staircase, through to the cocktails and food, everything underscores temptation [Read more...]

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Red Emperor, Melbourne – the yum in dim sum

Virtually every Chinese restaurant in Melbourne offers dim sum but the ones that do it well are harder to find. For many years, Greedy Girl and gluttonous husband regularly trotted down to their local Cantonese [Read more...]

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Lee Ho Fook, Collingwood – inventive Chinese food

Update: Lee Ho Hook is now based in Melbourne’s CBD. Every generation has its own hipster enclave. In Melbourne, the city’s laneways and the suburbs of St Kilda, Fitzroy, Carlton and Richmond have all had [Read more...]

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Lucy Liu Kitchen and Bar, Melbourne – a hot spot

You know a restaurant is hot when the staff call three times to reconfirm a reservation. Such was the case at new Melbourne laneway eatery Lucy Liu Kitchen and Bar, the latest effort from noted [Read more...]

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Hutong, Hong Kong – it’s all about the view

WC Fields famously said never work with children or animals. He probably had a pithy saying about restaurants with a view too – something along the lines of why worry about the food when they [Read more...]

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Recipes: Chinese master stock

Well over a decade ago, gluttonous husband decided to unlock the mysteries of Chinese cooking. Luckily for him, a very fine Chinese cooking school has been running in Melbourne for, well, decades. Any Australian with [Read more...]

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Flower Drum – a Melbourne institution

To paraphrase Star Trek (and to carbon date Greedy Girl), it’s Chinese Jim, but not as we know it. Flower Drum, in a paved laneway off Chinatown in Melbourne’s Little Bourke Street, has been the [Read more...]

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Recipes: Chicken and corn dumplings

Greedy Girl is a big fan of the British stylist Gok Wan. An avid follower of his ‘frock’ shows, they’re usually recorded and enjoyed at night when gluttonous husband has gone off to the land [Read more...]

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Jack’s Satay Bar – a worthwhile stop on Melbourne’s food map

Moonee Ponds – it’s a wonderfully Australian name for a suburb, made famous as the ‘home’ of that great Australian comedic export to the world, Dame Edna Everage. While dear old Edna put Moonee Ponds [Read more...]

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