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(23-25 Tattersalls Lane; dumplings 10/20 pieces $5/7; 11.30am-3.30pm & 5-10pm Mon-Fri, noon-10pm Sat,
noon-9pm Sun; 3, 5, 6, 16, 64, 67, 72)
A Melbourne institution. There's nothing fancy here;
pour your own plastic cup of tea from the urn, then try a variety of dumplings (steamed or
fried) with some greens and BYO booze. Put up with the dismal service and you've found
one of the last places in town where you can fill up for under $10.
Miss Katie's Crab Shack
( 03-9329 9888; 238 Victoria St; dishes $8-25; 5-9pm Tue-Sun, from noon Sat; 19, 57, 59)
Set up in-
side the Public Bar, Miss Katie's shack puts a twist on pub food through her Southern
home-style cooking, using fresh produce from the Vic Market across the road and
homemade hot sauces. Thank her grandma from Virginia for the signature fried chicken,
and her mum from Maryland for the Chesapeake Bay-style blue swimmer crab dishes.
AMERICAN
$
Misschu
SOUTHEAST ASIAN
$
( 03-9077 1097;
www.misschu.com.au
; 297 Exhibition St; from $7.50; 11am-10pm; City Circle, 24, 30)
The self-proclaimed 'queen of rice paper rolls', Misschu continues to expand her empire
of hole-in-the-wall eateries serving cheap and tasty Laotian-Vietnamese hawker-style food
and furnished in eclectic-retro design, with wooden-crate seating and 1950s retro blinds.
Fill out your order form for roast-duck-and-banana-flower rice paper rolls, or beef and ox-
tail pho. It's in
South Yarra
(
8, 78, 79)
,
03-9041 5848; 276 Toorak Rd, South Yarra;
11am-11pm;
too.
Izakaya Chuji
JAPANESE
$
( 03-9663 8118;
www.izakayachuji.com
; 165 Lonsdale St; shared dishes from $7; noon-2.15pm & 6-10.15pm
Mon-Fri, dinner Sat; 86, 96)
One of Melbourne's most authentic izakayas, no-frills Chuji is
popular for its well-priced and delicious traditional Japanese pub-style dishes, from
takoy-
(
www.nihonshu.com.au
;
163 Lonsdale St;
6pm-midnight Mon-Sat)
next door will instantly transport
you to downtown Tokyo.
JAPANESE
$
Don Don
