Every dish is imaginative - even colourfully artistic.
It starts with a Miss Mi gin martini, made in collaboration with Perth's Wandering Distillery. It's a good start. The top-end bespoke tipple was created to match the Asian-fusion flavours that leap from the menu onto your taste buds.
Miss Mi in the Novotel Perth Murray Street is a sister venue to Miss Mi Melbourne, which has earned an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat two years running.
We choose CHOOSE MI, as the menu suggests you do when you can't decide, which is an invitation to chef Alex De Leon to bring the zest. And bring it he does, in the form of street snacks, small share plates and large share plates across a variety of meat, seafood, vegetable and combination dishes.
De Leon skilfully deploys tamarind and turmeric curries, sambal, rendang, Szechuan and Filipino treatments to pork, ribs, duck, lamb, chicken, quail, kangaroo, fish, octopus, prawns and crab.
These creative variations are enhanced by dollops of sauces sprinkled with spices, and joined on the plate by chargrilled eggplant, cabbage, cauliflower, radish and cucumber.
The hero dish for me is the Pemanggang Ikan, a spectacular Indonesian-style grilled fish dish served up with spicy tamarind broth and okra. Bagus sekali!
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Every dish is imaginative - even colourfully artistic - and the flavours overflow like connecting Shanghai hawker alleyways. Which is of course what they are going for, as evidenced by the striking and imposing Miss Mi neon-painted mural on the wall in the alley outside.
This space begins the day as the Novotel's buffet breakfast venue but at night, in its Miss Mi guise, the lighting is intentionally moody. It's quieter than a Shanghai alleyway, too, with just the murmurings of patrons poring over the menu or discussing it with knowledgeable waiters.
Restaurants in mid-range hotels don't often hit these heights. missmiperth.com.au
