Lunch has long been a popular dating format but some meals can be tough to navigate when you’re trying look good at the same time. “You have a pesto in your teeth” are words no one wants to hear when they're dolled up with their A-game on.
Some foods lend themselves better to banter and belly-filling, like dumplings. The romance-savvy folk at have tapped into this fact, curating a menu with a side of getting-to-know-you.
Revamped yum cha dishes and cocktails (which, in one of many twists, couples must order for each other) are served up on a board game that throws some curly questions the prospective lovers might be pondering about each other. Things quickly escalate from warm ups like: “What’s your favourite dessert?” to whether they’re up for kids and any secret fantasies they have in the closet.
Yum cha plates arrive on a board game offering couples getting-to-know-you questions. Source: Oriental Teahouse
But thankfully, awkwardness is negated when tasty plates of wagyu beef and or ginger and prawn dumplings are swung their way.
The three-course meal spans Oriental Teahouse’s signature dumpling alongside larger plates of sweet shredded steak, stir-fried veggies and fried rice.
What are you waiting for? Love could be a soy-dipped mouthful away.
$60 per person
455 Chapel St, South Yarra - Everyday, except Sat & Sunday lunch (9826 0168)
378 Lt Collins St, Melbourne - Everyday, except Mon & Friday lunch (9600 4230)
