Kmart Burwood East: China Bar, Chachago tea to open at Burwood One shopping centre
Foodies looking for a midnight treat after visiting Kmart are in for a treat, with a restaurant and popular bubble tea chain coming to Burwood East.
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A popular Asian restaurant and tea chain are set to open at Burwood One Shopping Centre.
Signs have gone up announcing China Bar, the “best Asian eatery” in Melbourne and Chachago, “Taiwan’s most famous milk tea”, are set to open near Subway and Baker’s Delight.
The stores have been empty, after previously being occupied by a pizza restaurant and frozen yoghurt outlet.
The new eateries are set to operate for 24 hours, meaning those visiting Kmart nearby, which also operates around the clock, will be able to drop in after a late night shopping trip.
China Bar serves “the most popular tastes from Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan” while according to its website Chachago serves a range of tea varieties, including
brown sugar pearl with milk and black tea with ice cream.
China Bar Group marketing and communications manager Karen Lee said both outlets should open in the next couple of months.
“We think (Burwood One) has good levels of foot traffic and there are a lot of students and quite a number of Asian communities there as well,” she said.
Ms Lee said the China Bar Group was also planning to open another Chachago outlet in Jackson Court Doncaster, but was still waiting for materials to arrive from Taiwan before the stores could open.
It is a new bubble tea chain to arrive Australia, with the Doncaster store to be the first Chachago outlet to open in Melbourne.
Ms Lee said they decided to have 24-hour trading at the new outlets, after seeing its success at other China Bars in the city.
“What we observed is a lot of Asian restaurants shut at 10pm and that’s a big gap to fill during the late night, especially in the city stores, you see people start queuing up at 12, after late night partying and things like that.
“So we thought it’s not just Maccas that can do 24 hours.”
Discovery Fusion BBQ Buffet, based at the former Groove Train site at the centre, also reopened its doors at the start of the year.
The former Bank of Melbourne outlet, which recently shut, remains empty.
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