68. Longtime Dining, Brisbane

Longtime menu Source: Supplied

Set above Gucci in the luxury Queens Plaza retail centre, this fresh, contemporary Chinese restaurant focuses on yum cha as flashy as the designer stores surrounding it.

The fit-out is modern, with a stunning moulded bar at the entry, leading to a dining room of grey banquettes, teal and rattan chairs, white-clothed tables and curved booths under individual arbours.

But truly setting this eatery apart from its competitors is its top-notch signature cocktail menu delivered by charismatic and charming bartenders. Local and Asian beer is available too, plus wines that tread a mostly well-known path and myriad non-alcoholic options. It’s all designed to pair with the colossal food line-up covering steamed dim sum, kitchen snacks, rice noodle rolls and sweets.

There are also pimped-up versions of traditional favourites running from live seafood and Mongolian lamb rack to Cointreau duck and truffle fried rice. Glutinous rice dumplings are some of the best in town with the pleasantly chewy fried exterior enveloping a perfectly seasoned pork mince centre.

They’re perhaps only upstaged by the barbecue pork crisps, with buttery shortcrust pastry wrapping around a viscous puddle of sweet, sticky char sui pork. The runny-centred, fluffy, golden molten salted egg custard buns are worth any potential mess.

Longtime interior Source: Supplied

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610 Ann St Fortitude Valley QLD 4006

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