Correction (1 October 2026): an earlier version of this page said its writer had spent three weeks eating through Prahran and visited six restaurants twice each. That did not happen. The page also described rooms, staff, broths and specials we never saw, and printed prices and addresses we could not find on the venues’ own menus. It has been rewritten from scratch. Every place below was checked against its own website or menu, its address was confirmed at a second, independent source, and every price was copied from the venue’s own menu on 1 October 2026.
Prahran’s Asian food is spread across its side streets as well as its main roads: Shanghai-style dumplings in Cecil Place, ramen in Anchor Place, sushi boxes in Chatham Street, weekend yum cha and a Peking duck kitchen on Chapel Street, and a charcoal-grill set menu on High Street. This guide decodes each menu one dish at a time, names a regional style only where the menu itself names it, and picks a first order for every place with its listed price.
How to order yum cha: yum cha is the Cantonese tradition of tea with small dishes (dim sum), usually at lunch. At the two weekend yum cha options on this list, David’s and Suzie Q, it is an all-you-can-eat format at a fixed price per person, so pace yourself and reorder the favourites. Menus change, so give them a squiz before you go.
The quick picks
| If you’re after | Head to | Order this first | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai soup dumplings | David’s, Cecil Place | Shanghai Xiao Long Bao (3) | $14 |
| Weekend all-you-can-eat yum cha | Suzie Q, Chapel St | Yum cha, per adult | $59 |
| Ramen | Yoku Ono, Anchor Place | Yoku Ono ramen (shoyu-style) | $30 or $31 |
| Sushi to take home | Uminono, Chatham St | Chirashi sushi | $65 |
| Peking duck and fried rice | Family Tea House, Chapel St | Special fried rice | Not online |
| A Vietnamese-style set menu | Firebird, High St | Classic set menu | Not online |
David’s — 4 Cecil Place, Prahran VIC 3181
Region: Shanghai, in the restaurant’s own words: its site says “EST. 1999” and describes comfort Chinese food “bursting with the taste of Country Shanghai”. The evening menu runs from dim sum to shared plates. Chicken wontons (four) with sesame dressing and chilli oil are $17 and marked “David’s signature dish”, and crackling pork fried rice, another signature, is $24 or $42.
Decoder: xiao long bao are soup dumplings, pleated parcels with pork and a jellied stock inside that turns to soup as they steam. Nibble a small hole, sip the broth, then eat the rest. Menu says: Shanghai Xiao Long Bao (3), traditional soup dumplings, $14. How to order: weekends are unlimited yum cha, which the restaurant says is “different from your typical Cantonese yum cha” and built on Shanghainese flavours: $64 per adult and $45 for kids aged 4 to 12, with Saturday sittings at 12pm or 2pm and Sunday sittings at 11:15am or 1:30pm, plus a 10 per cent weekend surcharge.
Order this first: Shanghai Xiao Long Bao, $14 for three, because the menu calls them traditional soup dumplings and they are the Shanghai dish on the list.
Suzie Q — 247 Chapel St, Prahran VIC 3181
A modern Chinese restaurant on Chapel Street that calls its menu “classic Chinese fare” seen through “a modern lens”. Its weekend yum cha started on Saturday 23 May: lunch every Saturday and Sunday, with sittings at 12pm and 1:45pm, 90 minutes each.
How to order: it is a feast format at $59 per person and $22 for children, and the page says that if you want more of a favourite, “just ask”. A 10 per cent surcharge applies on Sundays. Decoder: siu mai are open-topped steamed dumplings, usually pork and prawn; on the a la carte menu, Suzie’s Signature Buns (two pieces) come with candied pork or tofu, pickled chilli and daikon.
Order this first: the weekend yum cha, $59 per person, because one price lets a first-timer try a spread of dim sum and reorder the favourites.
Family Tea House — 310 Chapel St, Prahran VIC 3181
A Chinese restaurant on Chapel Street whose own site sums up its menu in one line: “Try our legendary Special Fried Rice, Yum Cha menu or delicious Peking Duck.” Its site links an online ordering page for delivery and pickup, but that page builds its menu with script we could not read, so there are no prices here.
Decoder: Peking duck is roast duck served for its lacquered skin, carved and wrapped in thin pancakes with cucumber, spring onion and a sweet sauce. Special fried rice on Chinese menus is usually a mixed fried rice with several meats or prawns; the site does not say what goes into this one, so ask. How to order: check the ordering page for the current list before you go.
Order this first: the Special Fried Rice, the dish the restaurant itself calls legendary.
Yoku Ono — 6A Anchor Place, Prahran VIC 3181
A ramen and sake bar in Anchor Place, with a September 2026 menu that lists five hot ramen and three chilled. The house bowl, Yoku Ono ramen with chicken thigh or pork belly, is $30 or $31 and described as “our take on a shoyu style broth, light in flavour”. Miso broth ramen is $31 or $32, and the vegan or vegetarian ramen, on a clear mushroom dashi, is $27 or $28.
Decoder: shoyu means soy sauce, and a shoyu ramen is seasoned with it, which usually gives a clear, brown broth; miso ramen is seasoned with fermented soybean paste for a heavier, saltier bowl. Region: the tan tan sesame ramen ($32, $33 or $34) is the one bowl the menu calls “chinese influenced”. How to order: every ramen can be made a half portion for $22, gluten-free noodles are $3 extra, and the menu adds a 10 per cent Saturday and 15 per cent Sunday surcharge. Pork gyoza are $15.
Order this first: the Yoku Ono ramen, $30 or $31, because the menu calls it its own take on a shoyu broth, light in flavour.
Uminono — 24 Chatham St, Prahran VIC 3181
A sushi shop built mostly around pre-ordered takeaway boxes. Its site lists dine-in Tuesday to Saturday from 12pm to 4pm and pick-up Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 6:30pm, with online pre-orders needing at least three hours' notice.
Decoder: chirashi means “scattered”: a bowl of sushi rice with sliced raw fish laid over the top, rather than shaped pieces. Nigiri is a hand-pressed finger of rice with fish on top; maki is rolled in nori. Menu says: Chirashi Sushi, $65, with Ora King salmon in the house secret sauce, dry-aged hiramasa kingfish, tuna, prawn, Hokkaido scallop, snapper and ikura (salmon roe). The individual omakase box, which the shop calls its signature, is $80 for 10 nigiri and 8 maki. By the piece, Ora King salmon nigiri is $6.
Order this first: the Chirashi Sushi, $65, because it shows the whole fish selection in one bowl.
Firebird — 223 High St, Prahran VIC 3181
A High Street restaurant that the Australian Good Food Guide lists under Vietnamese, and whose own June 2026 set menus read that way: nuoc mam on the grilled squid and the chicken, a papaya and green apple salad, mushroom banh uot noodles on the vegan menu. Its site also runs a Chicken Night every Wednesday. The menus online carry no prices.
Decoder: nuoc mam is Vietnamese fish sauce, used as a dressing or dipping sauce, often with lime, sugar and chilli; banh uot are thin, steamed rice-noodle sheets. Menu says: the classic set menu runs from fresh oysters and a wood-fired flatbread to charcoal-grilled chicken with burnt chilli nuoc mam, and finishes with a mango custard. How to order: the set menus note a 10 per cent weekend surcharge and 20 per cent on public holidays.
Order this first: the classic set menu, for the charcoal grilled chicken with burnt chilli nuoc mam.
Quick answers
Where can I get dumplings in Prahran?
David’s, 4 Cecil Place, lists Shanghai Xiao Long Bao (three soup dumplings) at $14 and chicken wontons with chilli oil at $17. Suzie Q, 247 Chapel Street, lists prawn and spinach dumplings on its banquet menu and runs all-you-can-eat yum cha on weekends.
Is there yum cha in Prahran?
Yes, two all-you-can-eat weekend versions. David’s, 4 Cecil Place, runs Shanghainese yum cha on Saturday and Sunday at $64 per adult and $45 for kids aged 4 to 12, plus a 10 per cent weekend surcharge. Suzie Q, 247 Chapel Street, runs yum cha every Saturday and Sunday lunch at $59 per person ($22 for children), with a 10 per cent surcharge on Sundays.
Where is the ramen in Prahran?
Yoku Ono, a ramen and sake bar at 6A Anchor Place. Its September 2026 menu lists a shoyu-style house ramen at $30 or $31, miso ramen at $31 or $32 and a vegan or vegetarian ramen at $27 or $28, and any ramen can be a half portion for $22.
Where can I get sushi in Prahran?
Uminono, 24 Chatham Street, sells pre-ordered sushi boxes and chirashi for pick-up from Tuesday to Saturday, and has dine-in from 12pm to 4pm on those days. Its Chirashi Sushi is $65, the individual omakase box $80, and nigiri by the piece starts at $6.
Is there Chinese food on Chapel Street, Prahran?
Yes. Suzie Q at 247 Chapel Street is a modern Chinese restaurant with weekend yum cha, and Family Tea House at 310 Chapel Street lists special fried rice, a yum cha menu and Peking duck. David’s, a Shanghai-style restaurant, is in Cecil Place.
How we checked
On 1 October 2026 we read each restaurant’s own website and menu and copied every item and price as printed: David’s from its a la carte and yum cha pages, Suzie Q from its yum cha page and menu files, Uminono from the product pages of its own online shop, Firebird from its own June 2026 set-menu file, and Family Tea House from its own home page. Yoku Ono’s September 2026 menu is a file of page images with no text layer, so its prices were read from the rendered pages of that file and copied by hand. We confirmed every address at a second, independent source, the Australian Good Food Guide. Prices change and some venues add weekend surcharges, so check the menu before you go. The photos are illustrative, from Unsplash: they show the kind of dish, not the venue’s own food.
Seen something out of date? Email [email protected] with the page link and what has changed, and we will check it again.
Sources
- David’s: davidsrestaurant.com.au, its menu and yum cha page; address also at AGFG
- Suzie Q: suzieq.melbourne, its yum cha page and menu; address also at AGFG
- Family Tea House: familyteahouse.com.au; address also at AGFG
- Yoku Ono: yokuono.com.au and its September 2026 menu; address also at AGFG
- Uminono: uminono.com.au and its Chirashi Sushi, omakase box and salmon nigiri pages; address also at AGFG
- Firebird: firebirdmelbourne.com.au, its set menus and Chicken Night page; address also at AGFG
