Burwood Brickworks to be home to new restaurants including Hot Hot Pot, My Sushi

Lovers of Asian cuisine are in for a treat, with five popular eateries set to open at a new shopping centre. Did your favourite make the list?

Hot Hot Pot will be one of the food retailers at Burwood Brickworks.

A range of restaurants and food retailers are among the businesses set to open in Burwood’s new shopping centre later this year.

Frasers Property has revealed Burwood Brickworks will offer a variety of Asian cuisines, with Hot Hot Pot, Ichiro Izakaya Bar, My Sushi, Top Tea and Asian grocer Burwood Hu Hui Supermarket all moving in as tenants.

The Asian food outlets will be joined by a Cannings Free Range Butcher and a Woodfrog Bakery, while MyPlace Massage & Foot Spa, Glossed Nails & Beauty and Choice Pharmacy have also just been announced headed for the suburb.

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Frasers Property previously revealed New South Wales farm to table restaurant acre Farm & Eatery would run Burwood Brickwork’s rooftop urban farm and restaurant.

Burwood Brickworks is being built at 78 Middleborough Rd, Burwood East.

The shopping centre — which is set to be up and running in December — will also host an Insight Early Learning childcare centre, Woolworths supermarket, Dan Murphy’s and Reading Cinemas complex.

Frasers Property general manager Tim Moore said the diverse range of tenants had been chosen for their innovative concepts to help make the centre unique.

“With the fantastic new retailers coming to Burwood Brickworks the identity of the new shopping centre is being formed,” he said.

Mr Moore said there were still plenty of opportunities for other retailers to get on board.

”We’re keen to talk to new food and beverage concepts, convenience offers, health and fitness retailers and other services.”

Hot Hot Pot will be located within Burwood Brickworks.

Frasers Property is aiming for the centre to be the world’s greenest retail development.

It wants the shopping centre to be the first to achieve the Living Building ChallengeTM certification, meaning it will generate more energy than it consumes, retains and recycles all of the water it uses and dedicates 20 per cent of its site footprint for food growing.

And the centre’s dedication to sustainability will be shared among the retailers.

Doncaster restaurateurs Joe and Joanna Lim said they had chosen to open Hot Hot Pot at Burwood Brickworks because of the developer’s commitment to sustainability.

“The vision is very aligned with how we view our own business and our commitment to operating in a sustainable, environmentally-friendly way,” Mr Lim said.

Brickworks Shopping Centre under construction in March 2019.

The couple already run businesses in Doncaster and Box Hill and are looking forward to bringing their culturally authentic Sichuan hot pot with a subtle Melbourne twist to Burwood.

“We know locals in this area care about their health and wellbeing, and the health of the planet. So do we,” Mr Lim said.

“Our hot pot uses healthy, sustainably-sourced ingredients prepared fresh, with no MSG. On top of your usual bowl, we will also create a ‘keep mug’, which you can re-use and recycle, and take home with you to cut down on waste and encourage sustainability,” he said.

And the fit-out of their casual-dining restaurant will also be guided by value for the environment, using sustainable materials including reclaimed bricks, metal scaffolding scraps and salvaged timbers.

Mr Lim said the team behind Hot Hot Pot were keen to educate diners on the hot pot cuisine.

At Hot Hot Pot diners will be able to choose which ingredients star in their hot pot.

Their restaurant will specialise in ‘Malatang’, from the Sichuan province in China, featuring a broth made from cooking oven roasted pork bones, beef bones and bone marrows with 18 wild herbs and spices for eight hours.

Customers will be able to add their favourite ingredients to the broth and choose their level of spiciness.

Retailers interested in a tenancy at Burwood Brickworks should call Frasers Property on 13 38 38 or visit frasersproperty.com.au