The video itself was quite informative on science and food science concepts, but this part amused me as a local.

Not sponsored or affiliated in any way or form. I am just a Melbournian who happens to walk past this today afternoon.

Did an uber eats order from Burnley KFC, and got a cute little note apologising for not being able to give me sparkling water with my order! They gave me a few extra nugs for the inconvenience.

Don’t want to put up an ‘official’ positive review just in case they might get in trouble for the extra nuggets they gave, but hopefully either a member of the crew or a friend is on here.

A super popular cheap Italian eats in Japan, are we ready for $1 a glass of red wine?

i beg you

Always loved the combinis in Japan and with the ownership change a couple of years ago I have been low-key tracking the changes over the past year or so. Went to one yesterday for a coffee yesterday and they have onigiri, egg rolls, looks like they were installing a spot for fried food and pizza. Started to give me big japan vibes.

They are not there yet though, I bought one of their bentos and it was pretty terrible, so I reckon the Australian food suppliers need some work but I'm seeing the framework to have actually good convenience stores come together now.

Visiting Springvale today and picked this bad boy up.

Never seen one this large before.

670grams so 3 times larger than the regular jars.

Around $8 from KFL supermarket.

Seen at Woolworths, couldn’t find a brand name on it at all

Mine is Mugen — this tiny basement tsukemen bar tucked under Bligh Place in the CBD. Run by one chef, maybe 8 seats. The broth was absurdly rich and they did this thing where the noodles came on a bamboo mat separate from the soup.

They closed during COVID and never came back. I've tried basically every ramen/tsukemen spot in Melbourne since and nothing has quite matched it.

Keen to hear yours — especially the ones that weren't famous but just had that one dish you can't stop thinking about.

I travel a fair bit for work and was craving a pie.

Buddy’s bakery was the one that popped up closest on maps, but to my surprise there is actually another bakery directly next to Buddy’s.

Any Meltonians in here that can shed a bit of light on who was there first and who is the spiteful curmudgeon trying to bring the other one down?

So many of the shops in the food court are long-term vacant (50% by my count) so they’ve made these disguises to make it look less bleak, like maybe it’s a real food outlet. I’m not sure it helps.

This was the shopping centre of my youth. I had dates in this food court, and none of them were as grim as it’s looking these days.

Thank you cafe on Little Collins Street for starting a trend. So popular the line was out the door and down the street.

Crispy Chilli oil seems to have become the official condiment of Melbourne with chilli scramble seemingly a must on every cafe menu (the new avo toast, perhaps), so what's your fave?

One of these Melbourne made products or the old school Laoganma?

I'm a sucker for the Chotto Motto on the right, but have these others to try (the one of the left is Chotto Motto infused with whisky).

Oh and hot tip, use a little bit of Crispy chilli oil to fry your eggs (rather than standard oil). It's crazy good and I'm shocked cafes haven't picked up on it.

What's your go to for crispy chilli oil, or have you moved on to another condiment du jour?

So a few months ago i posted on here asking for info on hot jam donuts in Melbourne for my own personal review

well i have now gone to all but 1 location not thru lack of trying but everytime i have gone to barkley hot jam donuts in the last month the van hasn’t been there but every other location i have tried so i figured i would share my thoughts

so i gave myself 3 main things for my review

1. The crunch of the outside (i like them with crips out the fryer)
   
2. The texture of the inside (i like a almost cake like texture on the inside
   
3. the temperature of the jam ( i like them at the very least warm)

a few of the locations i came across offered extra jam for 50c to $1 a donut so i came up with the rule no paying for extra jam because i was reviewing them solely on how there sold on there own and let me tell you there were a couple that the only reason they didn’t get a perfect 10 was because the needle a little more jam

all the locations had six donuts to win me over for there final score now I’m sure lots of people will disappointed with wear there favourite donuts sit on the scoreboard and to that i say your more then welcome to go on the delicious journey to try and prove me wrong

Massi in little Collins st makes my heart ache all these years later 😢

Saw this in another sub and it made me curious.

The gallery is in order of most to least favourite (least favourite is still amazing, there are more that didn’t make the cut)

1. Crème Brûlée bun @ Q Le Baker, Prahran Market
2. Hot Choc Bun with Croissant Dough @ Hectors Bakery, Richmond
3. Sour Cherry & Dark Chocolate Bun @ Baker Bleu, multiple locations
4. Choc cross bun @ Artisinal Bakehouse, Bentleigh
5. PB & Choc cross bun @ Q Le Baker, Prahran Market
6. Cheesecake Hot Cross Bun @ Bread Club, multiple locations
7. Pistachio & White Choc cross bun @ Artisinal Bakehouse, Bentleigh
8. Twice Baked Hot Cross Bun @ Bread Club, multiple locations
9. Chocolate spice hot cross escargot @ Bloomwood, CBD

ETA: 7 buns in to my next batch of 13 and I'm hanging up the boots, so no second post incoming. I’m all carbed out

In addition to the above rankings, and also taking into account the ones I’ve eaten the last couple days I’m giving an award for:

Overall Best Traditional(ish) HCB: Saffron + Currant + Lemon Hot Cross Bun @ To Be Frank, Collingwood

Overall Best Choc Cross Bun: Bun with milk and dark Valrhona chocolate, sour cherries and cranberries @ Antara 128, CBD

Best meatballs 🧆 in Victoria