Longing for Japan? The country’s much-obsessed-over convenience store food is now yours to covet in the concrete jungle south of Swan Street. It’s not just egg sandos, either (though Suupaa’s is a curried-ketchup delight). This is a fully realised lunch spot in retrofuturistic, brushed-metal surrounds.

Tonkatsu is stabbed with a needling machine that promotes tenderness, and finished with deeply savoury Vegemite and red miso sauce. Mortadella musubi straps fragrant forcemeat to a bespoke blend of rice with a thin nori ribbon – a salty riff on a konbini classic.

Bread crusts are turned into caramel for swirling over soft serve, veg scraps are pickled or added to a miso soup that changes weekly. Important: Suupaa is a flat-white-free zone. Instead, Milo foam tops iced matcha, and miso cream and lemon zest bring depth and spark to cold brew. Super is as Suupaa does.

Good to know: Make sure to stop by the konbini on the way out for a tasty edit of Japanese pantry goods.

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