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The Fifty Six, a sophisticated top-floor Chinese restaurant from chef Gerald Ong, opens on the top floor of Naldham House next month.

The venue takes its name from Queensland’s first Chinese migrants – a group of 56 labourers who arrived in Brisbane 177 years ago. Ong, whose resume includes Chairman & Yip (the Canberra outpost of Hong Kong’s Chairman restaurant) as well as Sydney restaurants Porteño and Automata, is keen to honour the history of Chinese immigration to Brisbane and the string of great Chinese restaurants already open in the city.

Taking inspiration from his time at Porteño, Ong is cooking vegetables over coals to create dishes such as numbing eggplant and instituting a dry-ageing program for meat. Also on the menu: steak in a pepper-oyster-champagne sauce. When it comes to dumplings, sous-chef Ka Wai Kwok will lead the charge with his 20 years’ experience with dim sum. He’ll make prawn and mango spring rolls and crystal skin Moreton Bay bug dumplings. The wine list will be heavy on whites and include some interesting bottles from China.

When it opens, The Fifty Six will become the latest in a string of Hong Kong- and Cantonese-inspired venues, including Stan’s and Central, that have recently opened in Brisbane.

The Fifty Six opens on the top floor of Naldham House at 33 Felix Street, Brisbane in February.

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Updated: February 5th, 2025

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