The best bites at the city’s latest foodie precinct, Steam Mill Lane
Step inside the CBD’s latest foodie precinct, Steam Mill Lane, where you can find mouth watering chicken burgers, double fried chicken wings and delicious matcha.
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STEP inside the CBD’s latest foodie precinct, Steam Mill Lane where you can find mouth watering chicken burgers, double fried chicken wings and delicious matcha.
Central Sydney Magazine spent an afternoon down at Darling Square’s newest eatery.
First on the list was Bang Bang, a Japanese restaurant that will transport you to the back alley’s of Tokyo.
Operations Manager Ayako Sugimura said some customers even joke that they don’t have to go all the way to Japan anymore, “because Bang Bang is small Tokyo in Sydney.”
As you step inside, you will be met with luminescent lights, cherry blossoms and hanging lanterns.
Ms Sugimura said he wanted to bring the gritty old school alleyways of Tokyo’s Shinjuku district to Steam Mill Lane.
“Tomas Scerbo emulates the detail of Tokyo’s alleyways in the interiors from the asphalt like street flooring to the vintage neon shopfront signs sourced from the streets of Tokyo, lanterns, Japanese Soda vending machine wall and artwork by local designer Harley Johnston,” she said.
“We want Bang Bang to deliver a taste of Tokyo’s past and present.
“The team had a lot of fun immersing themselves in the street culture of Tokyo’s vibrant alleyways in order to bring that to life here at Bang Bang.”
The team have woven traditional elements like the yatai stand — where locals pull up a stool to devour a bowl of hot ramen, and they event have a karaoke box, which Mr Sugimura said is “very Tokyo right now”.
Their most popular dish — ‘the Bang Bang tebasaki’— a tower of double-fried chicken wings doused in a peppery soy glaze.
Coming in second is their fish market yakisoba — saucy yakisoba noodles with various seafood including blue swimmer crab and half shelled mussels.
And just when you think you’ve had enough, Bang Bang delivers an eye-popping dessert menu complete with Matcha waffles.
At Matcha Ya, you can find authentic Japanese tea that is imported directly from Japan.
They include Houji-cha, sakura matcha, and yuzu matcha from Shizuoka, Japan.
“Not only do we have the finest matcha and hojicha tea, we also use them in a range of infused menu items including lattes, sundaes, parfait, anmitstu and matcha soft serves,” Manager Mai Nakatani said.
The most popular items on the menu are the matcha latte and the matcha soft serve.
“We believe the matcha latte is the best place to start for first time visitors as it is a subtle introduction to the product,” she said.
Other favourites include the Honeycomb matcha frozen with matcha soft serve and the Matcha Shiratama parfait.
The menu at 8 Bit Burgers is inspired by the old school American diner.
But forget 1950s jukeboxes and Marilyn Monroe posters — Director and Chef, Shayne McCallum said he was too young for all that.
Instead, the concept is based around the 80s and 90s.
“The best way to really show the 80s and 90s was to develop a concept based on video games and its culture,” he said.
“The video game idea came from talks of nostalgia, when we were kids going to get takeaway food, whether it was pizza or fish and chips, while you wait there would always have pinball machine or a video game unit to pass the time.”
He said the menu items are all named after classic games or characters.
The most popular meal is the *bit with cheese’ — served with beef, tomato, lettuce, red onion, pickles, mustard, cheese, ketchup and 8 Bit sauce.
Coming in second is the’double dragon’ — with double beef, double cheese, double bacon, pickles, mustard, lettuce, ketchup and 8 Bit sauce.
At Belles Hot Chicken you have a choice of heat — the southern, medium, hot, or really hot.
Head Chef and owner, Morgan McGlone said the most popular item is the Belles spicy chicken sandwich, which he has cooked all over the world.
For those looking for the ultimate treat, grab some pals and check-out their bottomless brunch.
It includes the southern style chicken with waffles, bottomless bloody Marys and Belles cocktail jugs.
There are two cocktails, the Country time — made of lemonade infused with cardamom and a shot of Melbourne moonshine and the Southern charm — a sweet tea and a healthy dose of Buffalo Trace Kentucky Bourbon; and arnaldo with half house lemonade, half sweet tea with a shot of Tromba Tequila.
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