Pacific House, Richmond - First stop back landed me in this small linoleum joint which serves just about the freshest Cantonese style seafood. Mud crabs with scallion and ginger, lots of Chinese wine and finely diced garlic. Then there's the steamed garoupa with lots of soy sauce and peanut oil and thinly sliced scallion.
Laurents, Collins Street - Strawberry eclair with mildly sweet whipped cream, topped with amazingly light pastry and almond flakes. Fresh. Sweet. Feels like eating candy floss ... a few bites and you wonder where its gone.
Melba Cafe@Langham Hotel, City - The chocolate fondue. Ok so its a little cheesy but its amazing how beautiful endlessly flowing chocolate looks. Its like the real life incarnation of a Charlie and chocolate Factory fantasy!
The Street Cafe, St Kilda - The seafood platter filled with all kinds of goodies.
Old Kingdom - Cheesy interior with red lanterns with matching furniture, its like a local suburban Chinese restaurant but this place also serves the best Peking duck in the world. I know this is a BIG call, but I've spent a lot of time in Beijing and am yet to find any better. I'm talking thin stretchy but strong pancake (secret ingredient's egg) which you use to securely wrap large pieces of crispy duck (with no visible fat). The duck slice has been generously sliced by Simon the owner himself to give you a big hunk of the duck meat, which you place on the pancake with one cucumber and one spring onion ("Remember, only 1 per pancake!!" - Simon says) and the lovely specially mixed hoisin sauce.
The rest of the duck is served as 2nd and 3rd eats: stir fried bean sprouts with duck meat and tasty tofu duck bone soup.
Canton Lake, Box Hill - Snow crabs fried in goose liver sauce. Decadent, rich but utterly divine. Not for the faint hearted and prepare to leave your health warnings behind.
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