Remember when eating Asian was “2 mains and a fried rice” that easily fed 3 people? Those days of good food, good servings and good value? Before Fairfax Epicure tossers opined that true gourmands must pay twice as much for half as much? Try this “lunch special”: Singapore noodles for $9.80. Not with shrimp, but with big prawns aplenty. A huge serve. Tucked next to St Kilda’s Aldi Supermarket, the Inkerman Asian Cuisine eatery relies on locals and Chinese tourists – busloads of them at a time, staying in the above serviced apartments. So they must be doing something right…

Singapore noodles $9.80 lunch special, Inkerman Asian Cuisine, St Kilda