food/drink


A User’s Guide to Melbourne Bars

Originally published in Jargon, summer 2001, under the pseudonym ‘Ziggy Omar’.

The best bars in Melbourne combine kooky architecture with snappy ambience, ‘sound-of-now’ musical policies and the entertainment value of bored waiting staff. But be ever-vigilant: you and your slick posse may discover a great new place, only to return a short time later to find […]

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Project Dumpling

Originally published in Jargon, summer 2001.

Project Dumpling
by Simon Sellars & Anna Hyde
The discovery of gold in 1851 attracted Chinese immigration to Victoria, Australia on a large scale. The small Chinese community first occupied Celestial Ave in the heart of Melbourne, providing for the needs of the diggers – lodgings en route, food, equipment and medicine […]

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