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At Sushi Uokin in Hawthorn, grab-and-go hand rolls come in packaging that separates the rice from the nori, like at Japanese convenience stores.

Sushi Uokin

Serving grab-and-go hand rolls like those at Japanese convenience stores.

  • Thomas Beecher
Rice noodle soups are a specialty at Colourful Yunnan.
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Colourful Yunnan

Fungi-phobes need not apply.

Cheesy beef sando with mint in the mince.

Four Kilo Fish

This friendly Melbourne cafe showcases the coffee − and comfort food − of Yunnan.

Bar Selecta bar director Joey Tai (left) and co-owner Masaki Hisaike.

Bar Selecta

A Tokyo-style listening bar in a suburban laneway.

Cheesy beef sando with mint in the mince.

‘What a combo!’ Tiny cafe serves mind-bending toasties and ‘frisky’ foamy coffee

Four Kilo Fish is one of the rare Melbourne places that serves Chinese specialty coffee, including one drink that tastes like a Jaffa.

  • Dani Valent
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Mister Sandrino in Hawthorn.

Mister Sandrino

Knockout wines and whirlwind flavours in a minxy, vintage room.

The freshly renovated Beehive Hotel in Hawthorn.

The Beehive Hotel

An old beacon with a cheffy new menu.

The 3-12 Chicken Burger.

Join the Resistance at this off-Broadway burger bar (and don’t miss the off-menu fried chicken bun)

Decent burgers aren’t hard to find. But great burgers? Burgers for eating, not TikToking? They are rarer creatures.

  • Dani Valent
The 'miso soup' combination of tofu vanilla, miso and nori.

Miso soup in three scoops? Kori serves inventive Japanese ice-cream in Hawthorn

With 24 startling flavours, it's no wonder Kori's queues along Glenferrie Road are almost as famous as its ice-cream.

  • Dani Valent
Chicken souvlaki is "as Aussie as a drop punt".
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Plaka's Greek platters hit the spot

Dani Valent discovers modern Greek street eats in Hawthorn.

  • Dani Valent