Bang
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The Thai hotel diner has launched a happy hour on weekdays from 5pm to 7pm. Get $1 dumplings including pork and prawn siu mai, prawn har gao and a vegetable and truffle number. Plus, $12 Prosexy – a house prosecco by Fin Wines infused with fermented makrut lime leaves and lemongrass – and two-for-one longnecks.
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We’ll get it out of the way now: Bang is a suggestive name (especially for a hotel restaurant). But The Standard, a boutique hotel chain founded in Hollywood, doesn’t shy away from a bit of wordplay.
Bang is the Thai restaurant on the ground floor of the chain’s first Australian location, The StandardX in the backstreets of Fitzroy. Led by Melbourne chef Justin Dingle-Garciyya, it’s open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Dingle-Garciyya has worked as culinary director at several hotels and resorts, including in Thailand and Bali.
Inspired by Thai street markets and food courts, dishes include “white boy” noodles with blue swimmer crab and lobster sauce; a spin on pippies in XO sauce that swap in Goolwa littleneck clams; and a pig’s head that’s slow-braised, dried, barbequed and served whole with a heap of sesame, green onions, spring onions and coriander.
For dessert, try the Thai tea crème brûlée topped with caramelised popcorn, or the malt-and-vanilla sundae with tapioca, white chocolate and popping candy.
The drinks list is almost entirely Victorian. Wines from the Yarra Valley and Mornington Peninsula, beer from Collingwood’s Molly Rose, and Melbourne Bitter longnecks are fixtures. House cocktails tie in some Asian-inspired flavours, with ingredients like creamy chai, coconut milk, jasmine tea, lychee liqueur and Thai basil. There’s also a house prosecco – the Prosexy – by Fin Wines that’s infused with fermented makrut lime leaves and lemongrass.
Contact Details
Phone: (03) 9124 4814
Website: bangrestaurants.com
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