SHARK FIN YUM CHA

Shark Fin, 131 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne

My friend had a Sunday Yum Cha for her birthday at Shark Fin House in Chinatown. We feasted on a heap of Dumplings and Buns and Calamari and Chinese Broccoli and Desserts and Tea and Champagne.... and all for $18 a head! Shi-iiit. I'm a hafta do yum cha fortnightly i reckon. Shout out to my good friend Lazy Susan.

I felt the Curse of the Shellfish Blues again, and missed out on lotsa delish thangs. I took a bite into one particular dumpling, tasted prawn, and sneakily savoured its flavour for a moment before having to surrender the remainder to someone else.


Baskets & Teapots


Octopus


Dessert and Pink Champagne


Mango Custard Heart


The Dessert Trolley - check out that jelly! French jelly?

http://www.sharkfin.com.au/

Yum Cha was followed by a fabulously lax afternoon of cuppas and reading the paper in what i dubbed NoCa [North Carlton], after a discussion as to what SoHo stood for. Is it South of Houston?


The day flew by and we tucked into Pumpkin Soup as an evening chill set in.


Regrettably, i had to retire early to do some work, but i was suitably pleased that this be the walk that's to and fro our houses... Due South up my street for blocks and blocks of palm littered median and mouthwatering two-storied terraces. Yum.