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Yan’s dining room feels much cosier than the building it inhabits.
Good Food hat15/20

‘Damn good value’: Why it’s worth visiting this humble suburban bolthole

Locals flock to one-hatted Yan for natural-born-killer dishes humming with garlic, a towering dessert and moments of elegance.

  • Callan Boys
The core menu features other fine examples of noodle wizardry.
14.5/20

Noodle-cooking wizardry on show at this suburban gem

Boasting a new look and new dishes, this casual noodle house’s future as one of Perth’s best southeast Asian eateries is assured.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Owner/chef Helen Hung with Stanley Ho and Eva Ho.
14/20

At $17, ‘number eight’ at this retro food court gets you one of Sydney’s best value lunches

But you’ll need to arrive early to join local workers, grandmas and retirees who jostle for soups, noodles and this deceptively complex dish.

  • David Matthews
The duo base hot pot loaded with ingredients from the conveyor belt.

Hot pot meets sushi train for a new style of DIY dining

We’ve got sushi and cheese trains, but Divine Hotpot’s track boasts 50 trays of ingredients ready for DIY dipping.

  • Dani Valent
Hello Spice Canning Vale review. Picture: Supplied
13/20

What does a $6 bowl of noodles cooked by a machine taste like? We head to Canning Vale to investigate

How do you feed diners nutritious, affordable and tasty meals? Food entrepreneur Mark Sun and chef Vincent Lim have a promising solution.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
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Fook Shing’s tapioca pudding.

Fook Shing

Toasty meets tasty at a smartly converted pub.

Assorted fried snacks at Foodle.

Foodle

An enormous, extraordinary and multi-pronged food hall.

Imogen Mitchen and Corey Rozario are doing great things with their pop-up at Margaret River skate park.
14.5/20

This freewheeling Margaret River pop-up is blazing a new trail for modern Asian cooking

While BMX bandits practice bar spins and grommets drop-in, an emerging cooking talent is serving game-changing dahl, punchy pickles and other bold Burmese cooking.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Lagoon Dining.
Good Food hat15/20

Lagoon Dining

Raucous flavours in a refined room

Roti John.

This street food with eggs and mince slathered on French bread is ‘a joy to eat’

Cooking expert, teacher and author Tony Tan shares how to make a baguette with herbs, spices and omelette, plus two dumplings from his latest cookbook.

  • Tony Tan

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