Glen Waverley BBQ
This restaurant is great for groups of friends, as it offers small set banquet menus. Authentic is the name of the game here. The menu, featuring Cantonese food, is written in Chinese, but the staff are happy to translate, and the restaurant is often packed with Chinese diners. The menu features items such as vegetarian hot pot, crispy prawns and bitter melon. The place is small and can get cramped, but it is vibrant, clean and very modern.
Glen Waverley BBQ
31 Railway Parade
Glen Waverley
VIC, Australia 3150
+61-3-9803-1542
Rock Kung Restaurant
This is a long-standing, popular, cheap and cheerful Chinese eatery serving Cantonese food. Both the food and the interior is rugged and home style. Try mixed roasts, char sui pork with roasted chili oil or the fish dishes for which the restaurant is known, including live lobster, mud crab with noodles, jade perch and barramundi.
Rock Kung Restaurant
101 Kingsway
Glen Waverley
VIC, Australia 3150
+61-3-9560-9032
East Empress
The East Empress has a reputation as one of Melbourne's best Chinese restaurants. The interior is properly Oriental in feel, with jarrah furniture and exotic wall hangings. The restaurant is also known for its polite and experienced staff. In addition to the ubiquitous Peking duck, the menu has some more unusual and meaty offerings such as butter fillet steak, mustard-marinated fillet steak, ginger and shallot lobster and clay pot dishes.
East Empress
263A Springvale Road
Glen Waverley
VIC, Australia 3150
+61-3-9887-8388
eastempress.com.au
JG Dumpling Restaurant
Dumplings are not only cheap and filling but great to share with friends. Although the restaurant serves other food, it is most famous for its selection of generously proportioned and tasty dumplings. Servings come with 10 to 15 dumplings and feature all the traditional dumplings, including fried pork dumplings and various types of bao (steamed dumplings). Shanghai noodles are another favorite.
JG Dumpling Restaurant
78 Kingsway
Glen Waverley
VIC, Australia 3150
+61-3-9561-8113
Lim's Nyonya Hut
Nyonya is the food of the Baba-Nyonya people of Malaysia and Singapore. Also known as the Straits Chinese, the Nyonya are descendants of early Chinese immigrants to the Malay peninsula, and their food is a mixture of Asian cuisines featuring ingredients such as chilies, belacan (Malaysian shrimp paste) lemongrass, galangal and turmeric. The most famous Nyonya dish is laksa, and Lim's serves an excellent version, along with Singapore noodles, lee goreng and a selection of curries.
Lim's Nyonya Hut
240 Blackburn Road
Glen Waverley
VIC, Australia 3150
+61-3-9802-3763
Spicy Fish Restaurant
This is the place to come for those who like fish and like it spicy. Szechuan spicy fish soup is served in a bowl of chili, chili oil, sprouts and fish. A few bites and the endorphins will kick in, making you feel like you can conquer anything, even another bowl of spicy fish. Shanghai shao-long-bao dumplings (filled with soup) are also good, and it has a myriad of chili-filled dishes with which to prove your machismo.
Spicy Fish Restaurant
209 Little Bourke St
VIC, Australia 3000
+61-3-9639-1885
