QQQ ST. Kitchen

Not in the mood for rice today but still feeling a bit hungry? We’ve turned two of the popular side salads from QQQ ST KITCHEN into bowls! Lightly satisfy your hunger with our potato salad instead of rice, featuring crisp kale, tomatoes, and thick-cut mushrooms, all drizzled with our original dill dressing.

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Must try our classic salmon bento!

Home style marinated salmon with mayo sauce on rice
W/ Ramen Egg, potato Salad, Kale salad, Kinpira and home made chilli oil for little bit accent!



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Last week to get our onigiri in this August!kitchen will closed from this Sunday until Monday 2nd September!

Always thank you for your support :)!

Have you try our Okinawan taco rice?

Home Blend Taco Spices W/ Pork & Beef Mince, Cheese
Egg, Fresh Salsa, Lettuce, Orange, & Potato Salad!

Mix well to eat ✴︎



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視perspective点 vol. I
Photo exhibition by
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Tuesday 6th - 8th Aug from 11am till 4pm .kitchen

Closing party on
Thursday 8th Aug from 6pm till close .park
Sound take over by / /

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An Introduction of QQQ Akane, written by Fracture 

QQQ Akane is a person who is straight forward about what she likes, what she wants to do and values her own sensibilities who has many specialised ideas.

She has a clear opinion, and we always have passionate, creative conversations when we catch up…when drinking she often drinks tequila. 

QQQ Akane also cooks delicious food, all of her food is delicious no matter which one you eat! Many of her recipes are full of ideas and I think that her food is at a level that puts professional chefs to shame and you won’t find food like her’s in restaurants because it is home style soul food.

FractureからのQQQ Akaneへの紹介文

あかねさんの印象は、好きな事や、やりたいことにまっすぐな人で、自分自身の感覚を大事にしており、クリエイティブなアイディアが人一倍特化してる。
自分自身の意見もはっきり持っていて、お酒を飲むとよりアツい話をし合う仲でもある。
お酒を飲むときは、テキーラが多い
おいしいご飯を作っているあかねさんのご飯はどれを食べても全ておいしい！そしてご飯もアイディアがいっぱい詰まったレシピが多く、他の店では味わえないプロの料理人顔負けのレベルだと思っている。

Capturing our perspective as we travel outside, through the lens to see our inside

外へ出てレンズを通して切り取る内の視点。
と の二人写真展。

“視 Perspective 点” vol.1
Duo photo exhibition
by and

Tues 6th- Thurs 8th Aug / 11am-4pm at .kitchen

Closing party
Thurs 8th Aug 6pm-close at .park
/ Entry free

Sound take over by / /

Artwork

視perspective点 vol. I
Photo exhibition by
x

Tuesday 6th - 8th Aug from 11am till 4pm .kitchen

Closing party on
Thursday 8th Aug from 6pm till close .park
Sound take over by / /

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An introduction of Fracture, written by QQQ Akane

I met Fracture in 2023 shortly before he left for Europe for three months with his reckless savings. 
He was running around in between working, skating and parties. And before he left to Europe, he brought me a photo book titled “URBAN LAND SCAPE OF TOKYO which he made himself.

The photo book contains scenery of Tokyo, where I was born and raised for 23 years, and now 14 years after leaving Tokyo, I once again looked at the glamor and abnormality in that scenery, and at the same time I strongly felt his “perspective” and the moment Fracture captured it through his lens. 

“It’s the most fun when I see the drama that happens in the street,” he said…talking about his dreams and thoughts with momentum. I think it’s not easy to understand his flash but when you see his photos, which are captured with a boyish heart…explanations may be meaningless. I believe that a person’s heart’s “perspective” resides in the lens of a camera, and I am honored to be able to exhibit with him, who has a real “perspective”. 

QQQ AkaneからFractureへの紹介文

Fractureとは2023年、彼が無謀とも言える少ない貯金を握りしめて３ヶ月ヨーロッパへ旅立つ少し前に出会いました。
スケートとパーティを駆け巡る彼は旅立つ前、自分で作った写真集を私の元へ持ってきてくれました。

その写真集には私が23年間生まれ育った東京の風景が写っていて、東京から離れて14年の今、改めてその風景の中にある華やかさや異常さを見つめ、同時にFractureが己のレンズを通し切り取った瞬間に彼のリアルな「視点」を強く感じました。

「ストリートで起こるドラマをみてる時が一番楽しいんですよ。」という彼は勢いに任せて自身の夢や思いを語るので、母国語でも彼の閃光を理解するのは簡単ではないと思うけど、少年のような心で切り取られた彼の写真を見れば説明なんて無意味なのかもしれない。

カメラのレンズにはその人の心「視点」が宿ると私は思っていて、今回リアルな「視点」を持つ彼と二人で展示をさせてもらえる事をとても光栄に思います。

Marrie
Two of our favorite onigiri’s, spicy caviar & Kaley (kale with hope made chilli oil) get married to make a very unique onigiri.

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Plum sour
Umeboshi (Traditional Japanese pickled sweet/sour plum) with umami from bonito. A classic Onigiri known by anyone who’s visited Japan.

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Tuna mayo
The creamiest of all, house mix tuna mayo - a delicate textured Onigiri, one of our most popular!

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Spicy caviar
Cod roe & chilli mayo paste combine to create a smooth ocean flavoured Onigiri.

Pork Belly
Thinly sliced pork belly cooked with home made bbq sauce topped with our favorite local grandmother made Vietnamese Kimchi

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Curry egg (meat)
‘s pork and beef curry with egg!

Salmon & Ginger
Grilled salmon combined with sweet pickled ginger, always fresh & tasty!

Salmon
Grilled salmon with fresh shiso leaf (Japanese Basil) an instant classic!

Salmon & Plum sour
Grilled salmon with Umeboshi (Japanese Sour plum pickle). Was born at our staff breakfast! We decided to put it on the menu because its just too good!

A large quantity of rice becomes delicious plump by cooking it with heat at a stretch.
At QQQ ST. KITCHEN, we cook rice using a gas flame flame, not electricity.
I like cook with material that i grew up with in nature, by power of nature.
It is one of the reasons why we can serve to customers with confidence & consistent taste.

大量のお米は火力で一気に炊くことで、ふっくらと美味しくなります。
QQQ ST KITCHENでは、電気でなく火を使って料理をする事を大切にしています。
自然の中で育った素材を自然の力で調理する。
それも、一つの大切な味として自信を持ってお客様にお届けできる理由の一つです

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Our rice ball is made by hand, one by one without any machine.
Experience is necessary to make quantities of rice and ingredients, seasoning each onigiri carefully.
It is one of the reasons why an Onigiri of QQQ is loved every day and why our staff continue to make it.

私たちのおにぎりは、機械を使わず一つ一つ手で握られています。
お米の量、具の量、塩加減など一つ一つ丁寧に作れるようになるには経験が必要です。
毎日、継続して作ってくれているスタッフがいることも、QQQのおにぎりが愛されている理由の一つです。

Bacteria can occur if you keep rice warm in an electric rice cooker… although as we cook rice with a gas flame then stored in a ‘ Ohitsu’ a natural wooden sourced rice box which keeps humidity suitable for storing rice perfectly making it deliciously plump. Ohitsu is a wooden rice chest’s hand made by craftsmen & woman in Japan, joining timber without any glue making in the best natural way to store rice.

When a cook makes use of natural material using the traditional technique ‘ohitsu’ for storing Japanese rice, the depth of texture & flavour increases for how we taste rice and we eat it deliciously.

火力を使い毎日炊いたお米は炊飯器の保温に入れ続けると菌が発生し、匂いが発生します。QQQ ST. KITCHENでは一つ一つ職人の手により作られた糊を使わず作られたお櫃にうつすことにより、木がお米に最適の湿度を保ち米を一粒一粒ふっくらと美味しく保ってくれるのです。

日本のお米に対する伝統的な技術として、古来の人は自然の素材を生かし、美味しくお米を食べていたと考えると、また味わい方に深みが増してくるものです。

Q. What is the difference between sushi and onigiri?
A. The main difference between those two is the Rice.
Sushi uses sweet vinegar rice because the toppings are mostly raw seafood so vinegar helps food safety, then sushi uses soy sauce to make up the flavour’s saltiness.
Onigiri uses plain rice and toppings are mostly pre salted/cooked ingredients.

So basically sushi is the best way to enjoy fresh seafood with Japanese rice and onigiri is the best way to taste plain rice quality with many flavours inside.

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We are tiny kitchen and serve our flavours directly onto the street.
Vibes are like street food and its great to see our customers feelings as they take away & watch us cook!
Every days we love to feel you guys enjoying same favour as we love at QQQ ST. KITCHEN.

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QQQ ST KITCHEN ingredients have been curated by QQQ AKANE and she chooses ingredients, same as her home. From seasoning meat, veg & ingredients everything is the same as her home style cooking, because she wants to share with you the taste of our “home”

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QQQ ST. KITCHEN cooks Japanese rice everyday and onigiri’s are made fresh daily always with the same quality :)

Thank you to Hikari who take care quality every days for us❤️

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Rice is the most important base of Japanese soul food. Onigiri’s are made using plain rice mixed with salt whereas sushi usually mixes the rice with a sweet sushi vinegar. So, the quality of Onigiri is focused more toward a natural rice flavour.

Japanese people make sake from rice just like wine is made from grapes.

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I came from Japan and now living Melbourne for 11 years. and i can’t live here without japane rice. And to serve food from our small windows, I just need to feel home taste myself to pass to everyone.

This is what I love to share as my soul food.
And I believe someone will feel it:)

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Helloo everyone!!

Thank you for coming for our 2 years old birthday ✴︎

It was a special day for us and we’re really happy to share creative energy and onigiri with you all ✴︎ these are the type of vibes we always wanted to create, with all many types of different creators.

Thank you for your support ❤️

Much love from QQQ ST KITCHEN

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Hello Everyone!!

Hope you all had good weekend:)

Here is the full artist and market space lineup for our birthday party next weekend, Sat 6th July! we’re very excited to have an amazing community of artists sharing original artwork and a great community of people sharing their original goods with us! Kicking off at 11am till 5pm QQQ ST. KITCHEN will be setup as a market with food and drinks available, The space will then transform into a music event from 8pm till 1am! Dj lineups can be viewed in previous posts.

See you soon:)!!

Here is the full music artist lineup for our birthday party next weekend, Sat 6th July! we’re very excited to have an amazing community of musicians performing with us! Kicking off at 12pm, dj’s will be playing music from 12-5pm during the Market, closed from 5-8pm and reopening the venue from 8-1am for a .park late night session.

Market and artist line up coming soon:)