Grain Asian Cafe 大排档 — Restaurant in Melbourne

I have a craving for Yong Tau Foo and decided to check out this place. Added extra portions of noodles. Paid $26.90 for 6 pieces, including cold soya bean drink. The fish paste in the YTF lacks flavour (reported by others, too), but they fried certain pieces of YTF. It makes them crunchy to bite. The dark soy sauce is not too salty. I like the generous serves of condiments that you can help yourself to. The seating arrangement is more spacious than Asian Grain BBQ. I'm looking forward to trying other dishes.

Mar 2025: I tried the pork offals noodle soup, paid $17.90. I have my reservations initially after reading some negative reviews. The portion was huge. The servings of pork offals were generous. However, I wished that they could have been cut in smaller pieces. The pork slices and pork balls were the best. The intestine was a bit rubbery. One piece of kidney was not cleaned well. The broth was absolutely delicious. The pork lard absolutely lifted the taste. Overall, I think I will go for the pork slices and balls the next time. The offals are not as nice as those offered at the...

Grain Asia is located within Box Hill Central and its popularity is well justified. My prayers and cravings were answered when I heard that the pork noodles there was quite solid.

There’s very few Melbourne places which serve this quintessential Malaysian dish, but I think Grain Asia’s version is a respectable version. For first timers, you could just ask for pork meat slices and omit the pork liver, stomach and intestines.

Man, the bowl was HUGE ($14). I couldn’t even eat half on my own, so I think it’s best for two people to share this. The mince pork was tender, well seasoned and reminiscent of how they do it at home. I found that the pork soup broth errs a bit on the sweeter side, but is jam packed with a pork after taste. Was such a slurrrrrrrp worthy meal.

We also took away some Yong tau foo and they were delicious with noodle soup. Highlights were the okra, chive fish paste, beancurd skin with fish paste and tofu! 🥳🥳🥳 best to air fry the fried beancurd for...

This is semi food court but really more of a restaurant, you fill out your sheet for your order but pay ahead of time. The decor here was actually quite impressive given the location but pricing was a little steep for the area.

I ordered stir fried eggplant in fish sauce with rice. I was a little surprised when what read as a vegetarian dish arrived with meat in it and enquired what it was. Staff told me it was pork and when I said I don’t eat pork another guy came out and told me it was chicken. It did look like chicken so alls well that ends well.

I liked the flavour of this dish and it was actually rather filling. By the time my fresh prawn dumplings arrived I was hankering for a takeaway container. I really enjoyed these perfectly cooked plump delights with plenty of prawn filling. And now I’m off to have the yummy leftovers...