Was craving goat stew and headed to a Chinese restaurant hoping they would have some. Between three of us we had goat stew and xo pipies. The goat stew has rich in flavour, fall apart in your mouth meat, and great ratio of ingredients. I highly recommend it for those cold winter nights.
I live in Preston and every-time I pass-by used to think how this place will be. So thought of going in one day just by myself. It’s just like a typical Chinese restaurant 2/5 ambiance. But the service was good. After placing order the food was quickly served. A bit expensive but alright for first try.
Yum! One of my favourite places for Chinese food in Preston. Special fried rice and lemon chicken done well here. I’m always on the lookout for better but I keep coming back here.
Well priced great food always friendly and welcoming. Love coming here. Never had an issue. Recommend must try. Lunch packs are awesome aswell.
Ellis Christopher Kolias
+5
Best crispy pork in Melbourne in my opinion. Been coming here for as long as I remember and it has always been high quality, delicious meals!
Came here with my family because they said this is one of the good Chinese restaurants around this area and was not disappointed, foods came out very quickly and tasty however just a lil salty for my liking. The roasted duck was crispy and yummy. Definitely will come back
The best roast duck on rice I've ever had. Wonderful flavour, you can taste the star anise, just great. Tender meat and crispy skin. Extremely generous serve of duck, truly enough for 2 people. Noisy and plastic inside, don't come for the ambience, come for the food.
It is a best Chinese restaurant in Preston. It is also great to eat in or take away. It is my regular pace to have a meal. The food is great here with reasonable price. My favorite dishes are Lobster with egg noodles which is tasty and Duck roast roll which is juicy and yummy with sauces.
Beautiful food! My regular place for take away. Love their congee, honey steak with black bean source and also spiced tofu! Also their roasted duck, crispy skin pork are nice too! But dinning environment on a Saturday night can be very noisy. Not recommend for dine in.
My husband really felt like Chinese food for dinner and what a treat we had at c culture. The wait staff were friendly and prompt considering there was only four of them in the floor to serve a full restaurant.
The recommendations by our waiter were spot on and we saw other asians eating the dishes we had been recommended, which was good.
We order three main meals (only needed two as the serving were quite generous) but we wanted to try more than two dishes.
The salt and pepper prawns perfection, Cantonese beef, delicious as was the stay chicken. The satay was a bit hotter than most satay we have had and slightly different in taste, but I still loved it. Will definitely be back.
Great to find a place that has reasonable quality at a reasonable price with reasonable service. Quite rare along that strip and a place worth going back to.
The salt and chill prawns were delicious, as were the stir fry vegetables. The service was great and we enjoyed the BYO and green tea. We are a family of five, kids ten to four, every one left full and happy.
This is definitely my go to local for Chinese food.
The roast meats here are down so well every time!
I've had a lot of different menu items here over the years. My favourites are probably the seafood combination on fried noodles, scallops on tofu with bean curd, clay pot dishes are great and Peking duck! Honestly majority of dishes I order are done quite well.
Great price as well!
The staff are super friendly and helpful with the menu when needed.
Had the Spicy pork belly with schezwan sauce, the portion was plentiful and it tasted great. It was a Saturday night and was pretty busy there so the service was a little slow. Complimentary prawn crackers on the table and pretty good value for money.
Delicious juicy duck, tasty roast pork, free prawn crackers, and leftovers come home with us 😋 Ticks all the boxes, a solid local in Preston.
I basically visit C-Culture at least once or twice a month.
They always start you off by giving you a bowl of soup, that's my fav cos all Hong Kong people love to drink Soup! Their soup is not too bad! not sure if it's becos of the MSG thou..
Their Canto dishes are good! I love their BBQ park and crispy pork. All of their roasting dishes are nice. You have to go there early to order them thou otherwise it's gonna be all gone!
I like their deep fried salty egg with Prawn/Chicken, it reminds me of Home (Hong Kong)!
Mud crab with noodle, always the best dishes. I love eating crabs and the sauce soak with the noodle ~~yummmmmm.
Having recently moved to the area, we were looking for a good Chinese restaurant. The reviews for this restaurant were fantastic, and it did not disappoint!
Food was so good in fact, we visited twice in a week.
The roast duck was a stand out dish and full of flavour but order early as they do sell out!
The crocodile with ginger was tender and beautiful.
Loved the food, will definitely be back!
Hoping to try their whole fish, fresh from the tanks. Another table ordered this and it looked amazing!
I've been to C-Culture a couple of times mainly for their roast meat. I ordered a small mixed roast crispy pork and BBQ pork (char Siew) to take away with the spring onion dipping sauce add on for extra $1. The meat came with 2 complimentary dipping sauce ( sweet and savoury). For a small box takeaway, it was a generous serving of meat for 2 people for the price of $13.60. Good value but I won't say it's the best BBQ pork in town.
This is my traditional go to spot for snow crab with noodles, my friends and I order 2 crabs and spilt it between us, tried the crab with the sweet sauce and it is delicious.
We loved the roasted pork, roasted duck, fried chicken ribs and the live caught and cooked to order barramundi. Apart from the place being quite noisy and the food taking a little longer than it should have, everything was great and the staff actually speak english 👍🏻
3 roast meal lunch deal was $13
Ordered the BBQ pork (boneless) , roast duck (bones) and roast pork (boneless) with rice and very over cooked, slightly slimey stringy Bok Choy
The roast meats were delicious ! Especially the roast pork , was juicy and still had the crunchy crackle
Will return for the meats
Watched the employee chop the meats then serve on the plate and microwave to reheat
We entered via the back door facing Preston markets where they stored all the garbage bins , noted a few big bags of onions and carrots stacked on bottom shelves near the bins ... hopefully they don't use them ones in cooking
The restaurant appearance is outdated and appeared to need a good scrub and sanitise . Service was alright , they served the right order
Noted the mud crab was popular amongst the other tables
We go to this Chinese place all the time for take-away. We decided to eat in and had mud crab with noodles! It was delicious! Full of flavor! Service is always good and friendly!
So good! Fast service and lovely food. Have been coming to C Culture for many years and will continue to do so. Friendly staff too! Price is good for what you get.
We were lucky to get a table without a reservation. You need to book this place on a Saturday night. The service was quick and efficient.
Loved the beef with black bean and the wok fried rice noodles with beef. The prawn dish with vegetables and cashews was good but could improve by frying the cashews and adding some more interesting vegetables. Overall, we enjoyed the food. Clearly the roasts were indeed popular with the primarily Asian crowd, which is always a good sign.
Would come back to this place if I am in the area wanting Chinese/Vietnamese
Also, beware of Reviewers, who are one timers, giving this restaurant a 1 - very suspicious
C-culture is a staple dinner or lunch for me and my partner. We go too often and it never disappoints. The staff are friendly, and the food is always up to standard. Personal favourite is always the BBQ pork with rice, simple, yet compared to others, the pork is always soft and juicy and never dry for me.
The fried pork dumplings here are fantastic as well as the fried egg noodles with bbq pork, the only let down for this business is sometimes the guy taking your order at the front counter can be rude and push when taking your order and it's a little over priced.
Next up, to satisfy my duck craving, we got a serve of Peking duck pancakes. Amazing. The duck was delicious, with lashings of hoi sin sauce and super soft pancakes. They were more like thinner tortillas almost than other pancakes I’ve had with Peking duck before, but that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, they were delicious!
Delicious food, good service!
So glad I found this place! I'd been missing great Chinese since I left Brisbane (seems to be more/better there).
The food was great- flavourful, veges not overcooked, awesome vegetarian san choy bow.
Service is fast and the guy that served us was accommodating and professional. :)
Thank you.
Have been here numerous times over the last 5 years. I always enjoy it. It's noisy, bustling and full of atmosphere. Favourite dishes are the BBQ Pork and Roast Duck. The Singapore Noodles are wonderful. A must try.
We've been to this place a few times for lunch and dinner - both just as busy and noisy as each other in that buzzing Chinese culture kind of way. The service is pretty quick here, I highly rated the roasted duck and pork they have displayed on their window sill reminiscent of true Hong Kong style cafe's. Dinners not bad but wasn't as authentic as I would have liked, still a very fast service but being from Hong Kong originally I expected a bit more fragrance from garlic in their garlic pork ribs (instead only a few sprinkles of instant garlic granules in thick batter) and their Sichuan chicken to have a bit more Chilli and less sweet. So that was a bit of a let down in terms of being a bit too westernised. Overall I would try other dishes and return for sure!
Been coming here for over 10 years. If you want fine dining Chinese don't come. If you want value for money tasty well cooked food with friendly staff must visit. Never had an issue with the food. Roast counter is A+
I am not a huge Chinese food fan but this place does a decent job of it. I think you get a lot of mixed reviews here because if you go at lunch time you will be given a very different sub-par menu (1$ equiv). The best food is on the big fold out menu which you can order from any time of the day (just ask). As with all chinese restaurants with such a massive menu selection there can be some average dishes. The banquet B is really good value and I thought they did all dishes on it quite well. The duck and seafood are very good for what you pay. Good service too.
Finally, the pièce de résistance. Crispy skin pork belly. Would you believe this was apparently the entree serving, which cost all of $9.00?! It was a mountain of pork, and it was perfect. Holy wow. We both agreed that we’d go back JUST for the pork, it was THAT good! Super soft and tender meat, beautifully rendered fat, golden crispy tops. It’s the stuff dreams are made of. I can’t overstate the deliciousness of this pork enough.
This place is gooood. It's a rough and ready Chinese. Things are a bit basic and chaotic. Fish is pulled out of the tank and shown to you while flipping around in a plastic tub before being cooked. Rice is served in a little esky with a ladle.. Best.
Roast Duck and Pork A+. I like C-culture for what it is to me - and that is dependable.
The Roast Duck and Pork is excellent and the lunch special is as well priced as you would find elsewhere in the area.
As other reviewers have mentioned, it is probably not in the leagues of many similar restaurants found in say, Richmond, but hey its Preston not Richmond!
High on my list of eateries to visit when in the area.
Bland and boring food except from ottoman beef(?) -or something like this- which was very salty but tasted nicer than the other dishes we had!
Duck was like my death! No taste at all.
Rice was cold as my ass! It could be better... at least!
The "lemon sauce", a totally industrial and artificially -colored, -flavored light yellow liquid!
Of course, not impressive restaurant at all, but clean dishes (no hair, no rotten veggies, no scraps).
Everything here is good and tasty… Classic Aussie – Chinese Food.. Service is ok but for the price you can’t complain… A must try if your’e in that side of town… Dishes to try… Diced Chicken Hot Pot… Roast Duck…
Good but not great. The crispy roast pork and roast duck were both underseasoned. Good for the area, but no competitor to richmonds 'pacific seafood bbq house'.
Single meals. I work around the area and like C - culture because of the variety of meals for one. For the average price of $9, it's pretty reasonable with good portions. Food is tasty too and I like that they serve a bowl of delicious clear soup once you're seated.
I will bring more people to try the dishes.
Food is always good here. Menu options aplenty. Lots to scare anglo-westerners! Pretty noisy place though so be prepared to talk up - especially to the staff. Be loud and clear and get them to repeat the order back.
We'll come back.
Im a preston local. Been coming here for years and never disappoints.
Best Chinese food in Melbourne ..yummy deep fried calamari
Deep fried flounders a must ...very clean presentation of food ...I will keep coming back to this resteraunt ..I have tried lots of Asian resteraunt but the foods perfect at c culture
Great Quality. On par or marginally below Pho Hung's and Gold Leaf, C-Culture is a very good, clean and high quality asian cuisine.
I recommend the sizzling (literally, it's loud) plumb sauce beef or pork.
Love this place, food comes out quick and its always tasty. Big menu so lots of different combinations to be had. Floor can be really slippery so be careful.
Best duck in Preston. The best roasted duck and roasted pork. The best in Melbourne. Don't understand why Hung Sung claimed their roasted duck is the Number One in Melbourne.
C culture is a highly affordable satisfying Chinese experience. The portion sizes are fair and the food is consistently to a good standard. Highly recommend for a quick dinner.
My Fav Chinese in town.... Everything here is good and tasty...
Classic Aussie - Chinese Food..
Service is ok but for the price you can't complain...
A must try if your'e in that side of town...
Dishes to try...
Diced Chicken Hot Pot...
Roast Duck...
Easily the best Chinese in the Preston area. My go to for those take out nights. Their only downfall (in my opinion) is they close early (8:45pm) every night. Highly recommend!
It was quick services. 1/2 duck to take away :) yum yum
Average Chinese restaurants with a good selection of rice, noodles and meat dishes, including Chinese roast pork, duck etc. Portion sizes are pretty big, perfect for sharing.
Gives free soup and tea. Service could be better as dishes were slammed onto the table.
My partner and I went here mainly for the roast duck and it didn't disappoint. Half duck for about $18. The skin was crispy and there was quite a bit of duck meat on it which I know some Chinese restaurants can produce. I wish I had tried the roast pork though! It's a basic Chinese menu that has all the standard. I didn't really try anything else except for Chinese Broccoli with Oyster sauce (a staple!) and a vegetarian stir fry with rice. The service was quick and friendly. I think this restaurant is popular for its roast duck and pork, freshly roasted and cut. 👌🏻
One of the primary Chinese restaurant choices here on high street Preston. Pretty quick service and quality food. Slightly salty for my liking but would suit most locals. The good thing about this place is that it’s consist which I think is quite appealing.
Very delicious Chinese cuisine. The Stuffed Tofu with Prawn Meat is delicious. The Crocodile Meat is also good (tastes like chicken). The Sweet & Sour Pork is also very good.
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