Ten of Malaysia's best hawker stalls – some 80 years old – are now in Melbourne
Sourcing was also a challenge – ingredients like egg noodles are imported directly from Malaysia – and so was adjusting for differences in climate and taste preferences.
'When someone knows the taste so well and you try to cook the same dish in a different location, there's a very high expectation,' says Pang.
Among the roster of dishes deeply familiar to Malaysian diners, there are also items more common to Australian menus such as nasi lemak with fried chicken, wonton noodle soup, and a small line-up of dim sum.
The concept was inspired by a friend's hawker-style food court in Singapore, but Pang opted to make a single dining space within the old PappaRich site, where guests order via QR code and receive dishes from different vendors at the same table.
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