Ten Cheap Eats Under $20 You Can Find in Melbourne’s CBD – Concrete Playground

An absolute cheap eats classic, the humble dumpling is your friend no matter how skint your bank account’s looking. And if it’s bang for buck you’re after, you’ll want to roll on into somewhere like the long-standing HuTong, in the heart of Chinatown. These Shanghainese specialists are serving up a rollcall of dim sum’s greatest hits, including dumplings in abundance. Here, you can dig your chopsticks into a steamer basket of xiao long bao ($12.80 for eight), plump prawn parcels ($9.80 for four), or maybe the boiled pork dumplings ($8 for six). But hey, why stop at one? With prices this low, that twenty dollar note can easily stretch to two serves.