Forget KFC, when I want chicken wings - but with a touch of Chinese five spice rather than the…read moreColonel's best kept secret - I head to Beijing Chinese Food within the somewhat insalubrious confines of the Northcote Plaza shopping mall. Sure, they also sell a smorgasboard of stir fries and Chinese favourites such as lemon chicken but the best reason to visit this otherwise unexceptional Chinese takeaway is its incredible chicken wings. Succulent, tasty and oh so moreish, it doesn't get much better than this.

Wasted half an hour looking for this restaurant, only to find out it was closed. Booooooo,read more

So many restaurants to choose in Chinatown but so glad we chose Dragon Boat! A very comfortable…read morerestaurant with a good wine selection and menu including live seafood choices. Lots of choices made it hard to choose so we tried a few appetisers and mains. The service was very good and staff friendly. The food came quickly and everything was delicious. Definitely recommend the scallops and the crocodile. Standard choice of Asian desserts. Plenty of seating for couples, small or large groups. There are a few steps at the entry and restrooms are upstairs so not suitable for disabled access. All credit cards accepted including American Express. Highly recommended.

This is an engaging cheap and cheerful Chinese restaurant. I'd wanted to come here for many years…read more This place has not changed over those years. The exterior and interior are both wonderfully unfashionable. Style is unknown here. The food quality is much what you'd expect. Good basic Chinese. For those with an interest: actual Chinese people were dining here. I had the Mongolian beef after I enquired about house specialities. It was brought spitting and sizzling to the table. Very tasty it was too. My colleague had chicken and cashews which he enjoyed and demolished with purpose. The cost was ridiculously low at under $20 a head. There's always a place for somewhere like Hoit Yim. It's a 3.5. I'll be back.

Friendly clean and great Chinese food... And only a cpl min's away to boot... Most Excellent...read more

Really nice food,excellent and friendly staff. A place where you can dine to the early hours of the…read moremorning.

The food was well presented and despite being busy the atmosphere felt tranquil. But the most…read moreimportant and memorable aspects were in the flavour and service department. That is to say Highly recommended.

Having been in Fitzroy North of a lunchtime, with a big craving for Asian food and not too many…read moreAsian places open, I decided to try out the little Asian Noodle house just a couple of stores down from Piedimonte's. Similarly to Noodle Palace they do noodles from across South East Asia specifying Thailand, Malaysia, China and Japan. The couple were very friendly and the food was cooked fresh right in front of me (ready in under 5 mins). The Pad Thai was tasty but nowhere near as good as if you'd gone to a Thai place (the Thai place across the road was shut). The Char Kuey Tow was pretty tasty and more authentic. Overall, it really did the job without leaving me any lasting desire to go back. At $12 a pop, you can definitely get cheaper and better elsewhere I'd reckon. But for Fitzroy North at lunchtime, it was pretty good.

You can definitely get your noodle fix here and it won't cost you much at all. For me, a big bowl…read moreof steaming hot laksa is always the way to go, but I've been swayed by Singapore noodles and mee goreng, and I pretty much always end up taking an unusually slow bike ride home what with the extra weight of all those noodles in my tummy. The couple that I always see in here, running the show, are always really friendly and quick to take my order. I like getting my order in, settling in at a window seat and grabbing a newspaper or magazine for some pre-food light reading. By the time I've read one article in the papers, my noodles are usually in front of me steaming up my vision, so then it's a matter of setting the papers aside, tucking in with chopsticks and enjoying watching the peeps of Fitzroy North going about their business.

This cosy little family run business is awesome, I love going in to get a wholesome feed. The…read morewalls are filled with Chinese characters displaying what I assume to be menu items and there is an English menu at the counter for those not fluent in Chinese. I've tried a variety of dishes here and can strongly recommend the fish noodle soup. There is a little bain-marie where they have home made spring rolls and dim sims as well. They also serve fresh juice here and its not ridiculously overpriced like fresh juice has become in recent years. The TV in the corner keeps all the patrons entertained and it's a bit like sitting in someone's lounge room if you decide to eat in. The owner's small children are always about and there is a strong family vibe to the place.

Been hir couple times and i keep coming back, Alot of dishes to choose from and you get alot of…read morefood for your money, Great service, Great food and good prices. Yummy yummy is yummy.

Wasn't too sure walking in, but I was very pleasantly surprised…read more Great variety, great food, prompt service. What more can you ask for? And, unlike some other Chinese restaurants, it was CLEAN.

The quality of food at Mr Huang Jin is excellent. They are known for their xia-long bao (XLB), and…read moreit's deserved. We ate the default XLB, the shiu-mai, pan-fried beef dumplings, spicy fried squid and some BBQ pork bun to close it out. Everything we ate had the perfect combination of delicate flavour with a robust-enough construction to fulfil its purpose. It's a dumpling. It tastes great with soy or vinegar and it's meant to be eaten in a single chomp. This concept is 100% present in the construction of the dumplings. The dough wasn't too thick or too thin. The soup inside didn't spray everywhere as soon as a chopstick touched the side. But it was the BBQ pork bun at the end that stole the show for me. The sauce wasn't the traditional char shiu but a much spicier version. The pork was sliced really thin and melted at the slightest pressure of teeth. So tasty.

This place is like my dining room away from my dining room. We eat here all the time and take…read morelocal and out of town friends (now they're requesting that we take them there!). The food is always delicious and the staff are lovely (one even ran down the street after us when I left my bag once). The food is very affordable, even with the $20 per person minimum spend on Friday and Saturday nights. If you haven't already eaten at Andy's, why not? If you don't go back after trying it then there must be something wrong with you!

The food is good. We stick with the steamed dumplings and they are always tasty and piping hot…read more Service is efficient but not overly friendly or polite. They seem to want you in and out pretty quickly. Value for money is sometimes doubtful, I'm pretty sure I was charged more for takeaway than done in even though our order for food was the same... We continue to go back and haven't bothered trying other dumpling houses in the neighboring suburbs.

The Carlton Chinese Noodle Café has been here ever seen I was a child, and nothing has changed. It…read morewas great when my parents first took me here and it's still great to this day. I swear even the décor hasn't been touched, and it really gives the place an honest, approachable touch. The owners are a lovely Chinese couple who, I believe, are the crucial element that makes this place a success. There's always a friendly smile when you walk in, and later when you leave satisfied, full, and contemplating the next time you'll be back. Shanghai fried noodles are highly recommended, so are the Popiah and Sui Mai. With the prices being so cheap, you can afford to taste a few things off the menu. Everything is cooked right there in front of you, and it makes for good entertainment while waiting for your meal to arrive, which is usually super quick. Bring cash because credit cards aren't accepted and be aware that there's very limited seats inside. Though you can always get takeaway.