FREE NOODLES BOWLS AND BRIOCHE ROLLS! To celebrate our offical launch, we are giving away the first 50 Brioche Rolls & 50 noodle bowls (excl. Crab Banh Canh) FREE between 11am-2pm on SEPTEMBER 18TH! Write it in your diaries and tag who you are bringing! #noplacelikehomi
Location: Shop 2, 190 Queen Street Melbourne Vic 3000
ummm where? would be nice to put location in the title
Free 50 brioche rolls & 50 noodle bowls to give out in 3 hours? Are you that slow or that pessimistic about the business?
lol
Are you that slow
One every 3.6 minutes.
I'm voting on the later XD
I hope this fusion Asian trend goes out of flavour soon. Sick of seeing these menus that throw a bit of Asian food from all different parts of Asia and then mash them together into one dish and as well into one menu. There's a reason why Asian food has been kept a certain way for thousands of years.
I get what you're saying, but I disagree (kind of). Asian food hasn't been kept a certain way for thousands of years. Remember, many now-common Asian staples were originally imports from the Americas as recently as a few hundred years ago. Things like chilis, corn, potatoes, tomatoes. Can you imagine Thai or Korean food without chili? A home-cooked Chinese meal without stir-fried tomatoes and eggs? Even within Asia itself, a bowl of Malaysian laksa is a blend of Chinese cooking techniques and Malay ingredients. Then you have yummy things like banh mi, which wouldn't have been possible without French influence. Or Hong Kong egg tarts, which wouldn't be around if not for the British and Portuguese.
That being said, I cannot stand the generic term "Asian flavours". Asia is such a huge, diverse place, vastly more so than Europe. If we can make a distinction between French and Italian cuisines, surely we can understand that "Asian" is not one single flavour. Every TV chef does this. Stir-fry something in a wok with soy sauce, mirin, and garnish with a squeeze of lime juice. Ugh. That's like cooking spaghetti with mayonnaise and a side of sauerkraut and calling it "European flavours."
But at least with "fusion" cuisine, you know what you're getting is not authentic. Then you have people like Kylie Kwong, who uses Japanese ingredients in her supposedly "Chinese" cooking, who visits China and refuses to eat Chinese food. She certainly gives off the impression that she's cooking Chinese food, and her appearance helps her sell that, but… yeah, not so much.
Well there's a reason it's called Fusion Asian is it? No point in being traditionalist in a discussion about a fusion restaurant who wants to promote business by giving out free samples. You're just creating unnecessary noise.
Can vouch for this place, have been with work friends and the food is top notch!
Good food and service was great. Thanks Homi'es!
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Where? Shop 2, 190 Queen Street Melbourne Vic 3000