Modern Asian Restaurants in Melbourne

Aja Albert Park "A journey to Aja will change the way that you eat" is the guarantee that this place gives and the myriad array of recipes prepared at Aja certainly do meander through a broad range of Asian cuisines. Aja's proprietors intend to showcase their favourite dishes from all over south-east Asia, such as satay aja (sticks of chicken and beef skewered and grilled to perfection served with minced tomato chilli and herb sauces); roast beef seaweed rolls; whole prawn toast (king prawns, slightly floured, deep-fried and served on soy toast), tempura battered fish with sweet and sour sauce; and lamb shank slow-cooked for hours in rice wine and northern Chinese spices.

The dining space is stunning with wood panel floorboards, rattan chairs and gleaming red lamp wall decorations exuding a warm glow beside reclining Buddhas. An elevated dining space beside the full bar at the rear of the restaurant provides a more secluded enclave of tables and winding stairs lead to further private dining spaces. The service is refreshingly unobtrusive and with flavours that travel right across Asia you are presented the opportunity to take a culinary mini-break from Japan to Malaysia, India, Korea, China and Thailand. more