May 12, 2011: Immature Adult Woman Chu

Indian food or dumplings. So when nosotros were trying to accommodate a quick dinner for 5 inwards town, I was pretty stumped. Luckily mortal suggested Miss Chu, which I'd seen mentioned on twitter in addition to which promised a broad diverseness of vegetarian dishes.

Miss Chu is a self-styled Vietnamese 'tuckshop', imported from Sydney in addition to offering takeaway, delivery in addition to dine-in. Like almost every vaguely trendy novel house inwards Melbourne, you lot can't mass ahead if you lot desire to dine in. Which meant that, despite beingness assured that turnover was pretty fast, nosotros ended upward standing around on the street for one-half an lx minutes earlier they could crush us in. At to the lowest degree it wasn't raining.

It's a pretty crowded in addition to trendy fit-out - cute bowls every bit calorie-free fittings, large collages (kind of weirdly making something fashionable out of what looked similar photos of refugees), in addition to lots of hip Melbourne-ites chowing down. The carte du jour is quite long, with loads of vegetarian in addition to vegan options - basically broken into dumplings, rice newspaper rolls, salads, saltation rolls in addition to a few other odds in addition to ends. Miss Chu telephone phone themselves 'Queen of rice newspaper wraps' but nosotros looked elsewhere, starting with a large pile of dumplings. They come upward inwards 2 vegie varieties, spinach in addition to tofu in addition to Asian vegetables with garlic chives ($5 per serve). I was pretty impressed with these - the skins weren't likewise thick or glutinous in addition to the fillings were peachy (particularly the tofu) . H5N1 proficient start.

I was tempted to endeavor the papaya salad but mortal who'd visited earlier told me it wasn't going to give me the chilli boot I was looking for (seriously folks, where tin give notice I larn a tearing vego papaya salad?). Instead, Cindy in addition to I both went for varieties of the Vietnamese vermicelli salads.

She got inwards outset in addition to ordered the vegetarian fried internet saltation curlicue salad ($12).

The saltation rolls had a super crispy coating in addition to tasted by in addition to large of delicious deep-fried. They were piled on give of some squeamish rice noodles, laced with a fairly sweetness chilli sauce, all piled on give of some salady bits (they're hiding inwards the motion-picture present above). The sauce was a fighting calorie-free on, which meant that in i lawsuit you lot got through the rolls the residue was a fighting on the bland side.

I took the other salad option: a vegan salad, filled with enoki, shitake in addition to shimeji mushrooms ($12).

I was pleasantly surprised to larn a few delicious tofu chunks alongside all the mushies. Everything had been cooked over pretty high heat, then at that spot was a squeamish smoky season to it all, which went good with the few pieces of chilli scattered throughout. I could induce got done with to a greater extent than chilli but that's simply me beingness difficult.

There's a pretty substantial drinks listing withal Cindy in addition to I went non-boozy, opting for 'coconut immature juice' ($3), which was sweetness in addition to coconutty. The beautiful chunks of kokosnoot meat resting on the bottom filled inwards nicely for dessert.

I was fairly happy with Miss Chu - at that spot were enough of vegetarian options in addition to the nutrient was fresh, tasty in addition to relatively healthy. H5N1 few people induce got complained well-nigh the prices - I'm certain you lot tin give notice detect cheaper Vietnamese than this on Victoria St, but we're happy to pay a fighting to a greater extent than for a house that serves upward decent vego dishes. Having said that, I'm non certain we'll hurry dorsum - the combination of its crowded layout, counter service in addition to electrical flow buzz hateful that the whole sense is a fighting stressful. On the upside they create takeaway in addition to delivery on cute piffling electrical bikes in addition to are upward the same terminate of the metropolis every bit my work, then I'll in all likelihood larn to sample the nutrient in i lawsuit again without having to larn through the whole rigmarole.

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Lots of people are fans of Miss Chu, come across Blithely Unaware, Delicious Gathering in addition to Bang Bang Chronicles for positive write-ups. Melbourne Gastronome in addition to Tomato were a fighting less enthused. We're non the outset vegos to watch - The Big V was agency ahead of us.

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Miss Chu
297 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
9077 1097
rice newspaper wraps $6, dumplings in addition to saltation rolls $5, salads $12
http://www.misschu.com.au

Accessibility: There's no pace to arrive but Miss Chu is crowded in addition to pretty narrow. Ordering in addition to payment happens at a high counter.