If you want to join the fun at one of Melbourne’s most popular restaurants, arrive early and be prepared to wait ... and wait. This crowd-pleasing, slightly deafening warehouse diner plays the greatest hits of Asian cuisine, skipping from Thailand to India, Malaysia to Vietnam. Choose between a seriously hot wild boar jungle curry; gritty, intense beef rendang; juicy prawn and chicken salad or sticky, crumbling pork ribs. Every dish pops with full-throttle flavour: sugar, salt, chilli, lemongrass, coriander, fish sauce. Cheeky staff might encourage you to run up the bill, but since you’ve finally landed a table, you probably won’t mind.