Minh Minh — Restaurant in Melbourne

I went to Minh Minh with some friends and we all shared a meat banquet together, except for 1 of our party who was vegetarian.

The service was outstanding, friendly, welcoming and attentive and personable. The food was fantastic, with every dish fresh, extremely tasty and spicy.

The vegetarian dishes were equally as good and well catered for.

Everything was easy, nothing was a problem and it was a great night. I am not sure why I havent been here for so long.

This is one of the best restuarants in Victoria Street and its a must visit!!

Previous review - July 2018 I visited Minh Minh on a bloggers night recently to try their new winter warmer menu, so I won't comment on the service.

But the food was excellent, and we started w the gluten free (GF) lalot which is signature grilled beef wrapped in vine leaves. They were really tasty, the meat was soft, and I liked the vine leaves for a change.

Then we tried some GF "Sexy Crispy Quail" hahaha not I'm not making that name up. It was all legs 11 and they were absolutely amazing. I haven't eaten quail in too long. Wow I've been missing out. Full of meat, well seasoned, a yummy sauce. Perfect.

It was a cold night so we ordered the "Sexy Chef" haha but alas it wasn't the man or woman but some crispy beef and veggies w Peking Sauce and it was a flambé at our table. The meat and veggies were great, a bit heavily coated w the sauce and the coating but still moorish.

Then we tried some South East Asia Prawns (GF) again and these were a winner. Large meaty prawns, a nice garlic and ginger accompanying sauce. Happy days.

Previous review 2018

I was lucky enough to have a delicious Vietnamese dinner delivered last night. The service was great, and it was delivered on a bike.

We had some delicious food. Everything from duck rice paper rolls yummo. Vegetarian spring rollls, great then onto THE best dim sims I’ve ever tried. Def a 5/5 for those.

And the vegetarian fried rice was delicious too! Who knew rice could be so flavoursome?

My combination laska was delicious and delivered hot and well packaged so it didn’t spill everywhere. With thx.

What a perfect night in early t/a yay! If you like good quality (but not too cheap) Vietnamese this place is definitely...

3.5 star ⭐️ I was invited to Minh Minh to try their food the other day. Minh Minh is situated in amidst many Vietnamese restaurants in Richmond and I must admit, if I wasn’t invited I would have walked past it because when I am in Richmond, it would either be to have pho or Jinda Thai!

Minh Minh do have pho, but by all accounts it seemed as if their other dishes are more popular. The restaurant has an iconic orange wall with mural of a Vietnamese girl and Vietnamese straw hats decorated the walls of the restaurant. It has a nice homely atmosphere however I found their air conditioning lacking.

Minh Minh was BYO and there is no corkage charge, which was a plus, and I saw a lot of people bringing wine in.

We got a few dishes to try which was highly recommended by the owner Thien. We started with crispy quail, beef wrapped in betel leaf then moved onto the mains of grilled chicken and steamed barramundi.

The crispy quail had all the yummy flavours going, but it was slightly let down by the dryness of the quail. We both thought it might have been slightly overcooked.

The beef wrapped in betel leaf though ticked all the boxes and we scoffed those down in a jiffy.

The mains followed pretty quickly after, and the grilled chicken (called East Meets West) was full of flavour and the meat was succulent! I did feel that the dipping sauce was slightly on the sweet side and decided to abandon that fairly early on.

The generously portioned barramundi was maybe a touch overcooked (and I am really being picky here), and I frowned as it was swimming in soy sauce. However, the soy it came with wasn’t too salty and it actually enhanced the freshness of the fish. For a person who tries not to have rice I actually had another serving of rice just so I can eat more fish and sauce and rice.

Overall I enjoyed my experience in Minh Minh, and I understand that Tien has recently taken over from his Aunt so given time and a few minor tweaks and this would be highly recommended place to...

Insta: melbfoodie_mark YT: MelbFoodieMark ** Check them out for more food reviews in Melbourne! Trust, you gatta visit this place and get their 'Lucky Lucky Duck' ($25). One of the best duck dishes I've ever had in my entire life. Perfect combination of crispy duck and sweet & sour sauce. The duck was fried with a thin layer of beer batter around it to give you that irresistible crispiness while keeping all the meat juice inside. Beautifully seasoned meat with sweet & sour sauce hits you with that rich flavours with every bite. Not to mention, huge portion size. Beyond worth. Must try.

Second best dish was Crazy Chicken Ribs ($19). It was tasty but the flavour was somewhat familiar. There's this Korean Fried Chicken franchise called Kyochon and their original fried chicken tastes just like Crazy Chicken Ribs. Menu suggests that it uses tomyum sauce but it tasted more like garlicy soy sauce. Regardless, it was still delicious. Juicy, crunchy and flavourful.

For appetizers, we grabbed Dim Sums, Yummy Quail, and Lalot. My favourite was Quail. At first I was annoyed how dry it was as I was picking meat off the bone - but nah I was just eating it wrong man. You just gatta pick the legs up with your bare hands and chow down on the chickadee with the bone in it. Crispy and flavoursome, went wonderfully together with the chili dressing.

FYI, you can bring your own booze for $1pp corkage. There's this bottle shop next door so grab a bottle of wine to complete the experience. Overall, no doubt that the chef here knows what he's doing. Mad props! Can't wait to visit again and devour the entire...