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Is that a dog ? :ohmy::(

Nicky

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Chinatown around Little Bourke st in Melbourne, with 1000's of Chinese Visitors every night of the week. is far more extensive than anything in the UK . Makes the equivalent Chinese district around Wardour St in Soho look insipid and cheap. My opinion of UK chinese food especially yum cha breakfast, is that the UK is in a league below what we get in Aussie. I suggest the best people to ask a real opinion of this would be Chinese nationals.

Indian UK wins hands down, but probably twice as expensive in the UK, Aussie is catching up... Indian food here was almost unheard of before 1990.

Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, are all excellent here.

BTW Q'landers, one of the main reasons people from Melbourne, who do the seachange lifestyle move up North and end up coming back, is lack of multi cultural food experience. Which for Retirees I would say is right up there in terms of important leisure activity.

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Quality of asian food varies quite alot, Vietnamese and Thai are quite good, often superb, Indian can be Average but has improved, lots of Dosa houses and Genuine Indian curry houses on Cleveland street, Chinese is just shockingly bad.

Authenthic Chinese food cannot be found in Chinatown, for that you have to go to ashfield.

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It's all a matter of taste I suppose but I love Chinese food here. I prefer all the Asian food here to that which is served up in UK.:thumbsup:

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Yep. And its fairly common and doesnt tast bad

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:lol: you are kidding me, Oz sausages are like biting into a sawdust filled greasy condom:eek: Oz just does not know how to do any food except steak and budget busting fish dishes, and who wants authentic chinese food:eek: I like dogs and cats and really do not want to eat them.

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you kidding:confused: balti triangle in Brum, curry rice BIG NAN and change from a £5, you need to look were the indians eat themselves:thumbup:all the hard up students do:p

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I have to agree 100% with that, the "snags" are ahem, well pretty average here, and anyone who fancies authentic Chinese food without actually understanding just how different it is, is kidding themselves.

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I'll give you one thing, your right about the average sausage that they sell in supermarkets etc, and dead wrong about another. If Melbourne were suddenly uprooted and moved to Europe, it would automatically become the Culinary capitol. Quite simply it's probably the best place to eat out and for take away in the world. The standard of the "average" restaurant and the diverse choice is extremely high....with one major exception, We do have a long way to catch up on Indian food.

Absolutely blitzes London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, and Rome.

I'd like to hear of a single city that comes close to what we have here.

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:lol:that is soooo funny, and you are joking or just have no taste buds.

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When we were over in may 07 we ate at several thai restaurants along the east coast and all were superb

We also ate at a nice indian - totally different from uk indian (which is made for the uk mouth!) - I think as most have already said........some are good and some are bad...........exactly the same as here!

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I agreed with this 10 years ago, but in that time Melbourne food has gone down-hill and London has improved beyond recognition!

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I work and have Indians as friends, they tell me the curry from the curry restaurants is exactly the same as they cook for themselves at home, so if that is not authentic I do not know what is.

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Am I reading this right?? Oh come on FFS!
In the past two days I've seen someone asking if they have RADIO in Australia and now someone else is asking if they have Take Away in Australia. I tell you what, some people are damn lucky their Visa Case Officer doesn't read through these threads! I'm sure Australians don't want their populations intelligence diluted to this extent!

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I didnt say anything about it being authentic, just said it was different than the UK, sure the chicken tikka masala was developed for the UK tastes! And as I said before all restarants are different some good some bad.