Alrose Garden

This slick, timber-trimmed Korean restaurant looks more like a trendy bar than a neighbourhood noshery. Techno-pop music plays loudly and neon-lit booths are filled with uni students swilling Korean fruit wine, which at least one waitress suggests 'will make you gag'. If you do take a punt on the 20 per cent-strength stuff, you might be back the next morning for the fishy pollack soup, advertised as Korea's number one hangover cure. The bajirak, a clam, zucchini and handmade noodle soup, is another winner but, really, we'd give it all up for the light-as-a-feather pork or chicken katsu. It comes with infused five-grain rice, crispy salad and a mean tonkatsu sauce for just $14.