TOP 5 MELBOURNE DINNERS

Enjoy a signature Inari Bento Box on your lunch break, available for dine-in and takeaway Monday - Friday between pm. Fly on over to Sticky Beak where you can treat your beak to the best Korean fried chicken and K- dogs in town. Vibrant flavours of Shanghai are brought to life with a modern twist that showcases the best of Shanghai's  culinary heritage, passed down from Mrs Wang herself.
And with so many restaurants to choose from, it can be difficult to limit your choices. Luckily, we have decided to aid you in your search. Currently, Melbourne boasts one of best hot pot Melbourne the largest Chinese communities in Australia. So not surprisingly, the city is bursting with wonderful establishments dedicated to the production of authentic Chinese food.

The broth varies across regions but in Australia, you'll mainly see two styles in hotpot restaurants. There's the red and spicy kind, from the Chinese megacity of Chongqing, known for its ma la, a combination of Sichuan pepper numbness and chilli heat. Then there's the Cantonese and Thai styles that are more gentle, often made with a chicken stock base. Unlike, say, fondue, there's not a lot of hard-and-fast rules with hotpot, but saving the noodles for the end, when the broth is well flavoured and needs something to soak it up, is always a good idea. David's Hotpot is a popular chain restaurant in China and we decided try out the Melbourne one.
Mookata hotpot comes on a gas burner with a raised grill plate in the centre of the appliance. Pros grease the grill with a chunk of lard and pour stock into the moat surrounding the grill. Your best bets for  mookata are Nana Thai BBQ & Hotpot on Bourke Street and Soi 38, tucked away in the car park off Mcilwraith Place. Next door to Nana is Thai Tide, which offers giant tom yum and tom leng saap hotpots. The latter is a hard-to-find dish with meaty pork spines piled up in tangy broth with loads of makrut lime, lemongrass, and galangal. Lau, or Vietnamese hotpot, has Chinese steamboat origins.
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Many Chinese families will have had a hot pot set that’s been around for generations, or get shared around when the kids move out of home. Our hotpot set up with the Lamb and Beef ComboWe chose medium spicy but it was too much for us. The other base was the tomato soup which was much more pleasant. The meats were decent but a bit over priced.
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While following the traditional cooking methods of Hakata tonkotsu ramen, IPPUDO has created a “double maturation process”, which adds several layers of depth to its taste. Cooked for a good 18 hours in a specially-crafted soup pot, then rounded off using a lower heat maturation method for another full day. Smooth and mellow as silk, this specialty pork-based stock forms the base for IPPUDO’s ramen. Ma La Tang is a common type of Chinese street food that has started a craze around the world. The convenient pick-your-ingredient style “mini” hot pot is now everyone’s favourite food. Burwood Chinatown is an exciting new dining and retail precinct within Sydney’s inner west serving the best authentic Asian street food.
The ōdō no bara and ōdō no kata By gently, gradually and slowly simmering the chashu, the time-honored soya sauce-based braising liquid is absorbed to the very center of the chashu. This is the “repeated simmering process” uniquely created by IPPUDO. The umami of the original pork flavor is further condensed by allowing the flavor to settle through low temperature vacuum aging. You can enjoy these two pork cuts in one bowl. Delicious, I love the concept.
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