Melbourne Visit Features

Dear Ambassador,

IMPORTANT : Melbourne gonna be soo soo cold and windy so bring lotsa thick clothes yaa ☺

First, you’ll need to buy a Myki card to travel in Melbie, it’s a card that you’ll use to travel anywhere as long as you used train, tram or bus. It’ll cost you $6 for the card (without credit inside). Google map is very useful to guide you to these places.

Foods (listed based on ericaspoon.com rating):

*Most of the restaurants in CBD you’ll need to queue outside the restaurant before entering, cz’ they always crowded!

* Take note that most of the dining place (esp. brunch café) will be close after 4 pm, you need to check their opening hour in Google, cz they have weird opening time everyday (i.e. some of them close on particular day, etc)

*http://www.urbanspoon.com/c/71/Melbourne-restaurants.html is a very good website that can recommend you lots other good food choices if you wanna try something other than inside this list provided by www.ericaspoon.com ;)

*Those marked with ✔is a must try ;)

*Below lists are just for recommendation purpose only. Feel free to explore others! :D

Western

1. Hammer and Tong (http://www.hammerandtong.com.au) ✔

• It’s a nice small Western style brunch place. Try the softshell crab burger!

1. Mamasita (http://www.mamasita.com.au) ✔

• It’s a Mexican restaurant, located at level 2 of a building. Try the street style chargrilled corn with queso, chipotle, mayonnaise & lime!

1. Top Paddock (http://www.toppaddockcafe.com) ✔

• It’s a Western style brunch place, nice ambient for (food) photo taking. Try the hot cake & Top Paddock brunch set!

1. Mercadente (http://www.mercadante.com.au) ✔

• It’s an Italian restaurant with a cheeky chef (he likes to play around with the customer lol). They are famous with their Chocolate pizza (I found it taste okok only, but you can try). Try their Bellagio pizza (it’s very nice and thin crusted, so you might want to order some more :p)

1. Hardware Societe

(http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/71/1474868/restaurant/CBD/The-Hardware-Societe-Melbourne)

• A Western style brunch place, crowded but good food. Try their omelette!

Asian

1. Oriental Spoon (http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/71/761420/restaurant/CBD/Oriental-Spoon-Melbourne)

• A Korean restaurant. Try their Bulgogi.

1. ChinChin (http://www.chinchinrestaurant.com.au)

• A Thailand fusion restaurant and bar. Kinda pricey and for me taste okok only. But the queue is crazy! I’ve tried their padthai and soft shell crab salad. But they are famous with the Kingfish sashimi.

1. Ying Thai 2

(http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/71/1485542/restaurant/Melbourne/Ying-Thai-2-Carlton)

• For a more reasonable price Thailand food. Try their spicy pork skin salad.

1. Shyun (http://www.shyun.net.au)

• It’s not in the city (it’s in Carnegie, can be reached by tram), but it’s a nice Japanese family run restaurant. The food is nice and reasonable price. Try the soft shell crab rolls, agedashi tofu, spicy aburi salmon.

1. Pho Bo Ga Mekong

(http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/71/761243/restaurant/CBD/Pho-Bo-Ga-Mekong-Vietnam-Melbourne)

> A simple Vietnamese restaurant. Their beef brisket pho (noodle soup) is delish!

Desserts

1. Hopetoun Tea Rooms (http://www.hopetountearooms.com.au) ✔

• A pretty cake house with losta choices of pretty yet delish cakes! Located inside Royal Arcade shopping mall. Try their Lamington cake (coconut flakes cake) and Strawberry sponge cake (Raspberry sponge cake also nice!)

1. La Belle Miette (http://labellemiette.com.au/mac/) ✔

• Macaroons boutique. Everything is nice! Nicest macaroons I’ve ever tasted. Try all flavours!

1. The Little Royal

(http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/71/1610919/restaurant/CBD/The-Little-Royal-Melbourne)

• Macaroons shop. Running Man had this macaroons when they came to Melbie. Still can’t beat La Belle Miette’s but their salted caramel macaroons is nice.

1. Il Dolce Freddo ✔

(http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/71/1425696/restaurant/Melbourne/Il-Dolce-Freddo-Carlton)