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Ru Yi Dim Sum

Pumping shopping centre eatery with an extensive yum cha offering.

  • Matt Shea
Southside runs its yum cha menu every Sunday.

Southside

Yum cha and cocktails in bucolic surrounds.

  • Matt Shea
Chef Jessi Singh at his favourite store, MKS Spices'n Things in Preston.

MKS Spices’n Things

For South Asian short eats, dry goods and more.

  • Sanka Amadoru
Apa’s Canteen specialises in the food of Bhutan, the South Asian country on the Himalayas’ eastern edge.

Apa’s Canteen

For Bhutanese cuisine in the heart of the CBD.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Iga bakar.
14.5/20

This Vic Park pop-up is a heady blend of east and west, tradition and modern-day thinking

The new Nusantara food movement is gaining momentum across southeast Asia. With the arrival of Magnolia, Perth is also in on the action.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
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Sydney’s frenzied appetite for a 9000-year-old ingredient pulls crowds at this fast-food kiosk

Fans of Hoa Hung include an ex-Aria chef. They come for tofu “chips”, spongy snackable triangles and soy milk that’s like drinking liquid popcorn.

  • Lee Tran Lam
Imogen Mitchen and Corey Rozario are doing great things with their pop-up at Margaret River skate park.
14.5/20

This freewheeling Margaret River pop-up is blazing a new trail for modern Asian cooking

While BMX bandits practice bar spins and grommets drop-in, an emerging cooking talent is serving game-changing dahl, punchy pickles and other bold Burmese cooking.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Lagoon Dining.
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Lagoon Dining

A flavourful exploration of China and its neighbours.

Cumin lamb pancakes.
13.5/20

The modern Asian newcomer blurring the line between restaurant and club in a prime Perth CBD location

Goodbye, Jamie’s Italian. Hello, peach-coloured dining room, where the lumens are low but the volume and atmosphere are high.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
The stairs to basement bar, Galer.
14/20

This under-the-radar Swanston Street spot is primed for your next big night out in the city

The historic red-brick Carlton United Brewery shell is home to Humble Rays cafe by day, and later, Regale and basement club Galer.

  • Dani Valent