This place is the best there food is perfect I went there for my mums birthday and my grandfathers…read morebirthday to there Kung pow chicken is so good I love this place so much the service is great the people there are so nice.

Best Nasi Lemak in town. People travel long distances for this dish!…read more All the meals are delicious and the plating generous. I have been going there for forty years: the restaurant is now run by the second generation, and it's even better than before!

Really diverse/large menu, difficult to decide what to get (which I like)…read moreFood came out in record time Service was fine The biggest mussels I've had in Melbourne (not saying much but not disappointed for once) Between two we ordered Chinese Sausage 2/5 Vegetarian fried rice 2/5 Eggplant and minced pork 4/5 Crispy duck and plum sauce 4/5 Seafood Laska 3.5/5

There's a lot to like about Gold Leaf but equally it's difficult to sing the place's praises from…read morethe rooftops. We'd been given the good oil on the place but perhaps my yum cha expectations are a bit higher than most. Given that I come from NZ, where the dim sum quality is off the scale if you know where to go, Gold Leaf fell well short in terms of delicacy of flavours and textures. That's not to say that they're still possibly one of the best I've encountered in Melbourne, but it's a bit of a statement about the standard you expect in this city. This is a large space, with rotating chandeliers and large tables, and a bit of coolness in the food is to be expected at a yum cha sitting. In the couple of instances I've eaten here (one of them the meeting of my own and my partner's parents for the first time) the food has been largely cold and disappointingly lacking in flavour. The reality is, though, I feel like the culture surrounding yum cha in Melbourne is really just undemanding. There aren't any quality yum cha restaurants here (I've tried most of them) and my gripes are no different in the higher end restaurants. So, given that the pressure's off, maybe places like this that could be great just rest on their laurels a bit. Fire 'em up!

Father's Day yum cha here is NOT worth it...we arrived at 11 and were told we only had one hour to…read moreeat and get out because they decided to cram a third yum cha session in for the day to make more money. The 11 of us were seated upstairs where there was only 6 tables and were offered the same 3 trolleys of dishes 5 times, along with jellyfish and calamari that was cold, chewy and swimming in oil. We had to order in what we were waiting for - Chinese broccoli and barbecue pork buns. Too bad if this had been your first yum cha experience and didn't know there were other options that weren't brought around on the trolleys. Once we came downstairs after being kicked out, we got to see all the food we weren't offered being brought around to everyone else. 9/10 of the dishes we received were cold. One older female staff member was incredibly rude to us. The younger female staff member didn't know the word "please" existed and there were two young male staff members who were doing nothing but standing around staring at us and talking about us to each other the whole time we were there. There are many far better yum cha places in Melbourne. Definitely won't ever be coming back to this one.

chinese traditional dishes, north China style, but the BBQ seems Korean taste. cold dish takeaway…read moreat the back door in Preston Market, beef, chicken, pig's feet, steamed stuffed bun, etc all of this are in good taste! the photos were taken by me while I was there before, and will go there tonight again ^_^

We found this restaurant after walking around Chinatown for a while looking at other menus and…read moredishes posted. We decided on this one because the prices were good and it looked like a small Mom and Pop restaurant. I was very pleasantly surprised with the large menu selection. I chose the Singapore noodles with chicken instead of pork. Just the right amount of spice and abundant taste. If you're looking to go easy on the wallet and heavy on the taste buds try this place.

The steamed buns were OK, but not up to what I had been hoping from the other reviews…read more The regular menu items were even more disappointing. Will try again to see if I was just unlucky, but my first experience here was pretty average.

The first thing you notice when you enter this restaurant are the lobsters and fish swimming around…read morethe the tanks. No, that is not decoration, that is somebody's meal - yep, it's one of those restaurants were you pick your meal before they catch it, take it a way, and cook it. Mind you, I have never had a meal like that, namely because the portion is so huge that I am unlikely to finish it all one my lonesome, though I did notice that when I was in Hong Kong, a lot of the restaurants did operate that way. As for this one, it did have a really authentic feel about it, and they even had decent chopsticks as opposed to those really tacky ones you find in other restaurants. The food does come out reasonably quickly, and are fair sized portions, but at least they let you take it home in a container.

Excellent food, especially the Ginger & Lobster with noodles, mud crab with salty egg yoke, deep…read morefried salt & chilli whole flounder. Warm and friendly service by May and Jason. I highly recommend this authentic Chinese cuisine.

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.