The Best Street Food in Melbourne

The best souvlaki in Australia! Or the pork gyros platter, the dakos salad, and the dips. Pro-tip: you'll want to order a second pita bread.

The signature “stir-fried up” pho bo from famed Hanoi noodle shop Pho Thin. They’ve just arrived in Melbourne having rocked it back in Vietnam for 40 years with their idiosyncratic take on pho. The beef is tossed in a wok before it goes in the soup, the onion is green rather than white, and bean sprouts are verboten. Liked it. I think it’s different to anything else in town, and definitely worth a look. What I really like is that unlike most pho shops in Australia they offer what they call Vietnamese doughnuts (and what I’d call youtiao) on the side for the dippins.

Pick up a quick and easy kimbap, punch up your meal with house-made kimchis, annul and other side dishes. Hit the fridges for cooked, transitional, home style dishes to heat at home.

Fiery Isaan Thai cuisine at its finestWhen you've got a visceral hankering for the spiciest of Thai chillies and strong, punchy, citric flavours, this is the place to go. Classics like pad gra pao toting holy basil can be paired with crisped up strips of pork as opposed to mince, num tok balances the heat with sharp shreds of onion and plenty of lime juice, there's at least ten variation of som tum, and deep fried pork intestines come as a delectable little entree. The space is always packed out with people of Thai heritage and that's always a good sign. It goes to show the flavours hit hard and that TomToon doesn't mess around.

I have to stop and remind myself occasionally that I live in the same city as the best la zi ji in Australia. I love you, Dainty; I love you, Chongqing chicken.