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DON DON. Near the intersection of Swanston Street and Little Lonsdale Street.

Imagine a telephone booth. Multiply it by 15 and that's the size of Don Don, a Japanese takeaway restaurant.
The exterior of Don Don is near to invisible. It has lots of grafities and pulp posters pasted on their wall. If you don't pay enough attention, you might get deceived by the other 'colourful' and well designed restaurants beside it.
This might be personal and subjective, I think Don Don is one of the best restaurant in Melbourne in terms of service and value.
First of all, their service is so swift that they could easily beat any fast food restaurant you can think of.
Of course, if you order some rare dish like the sashimi on rice, you'd have to wait a wee bit longer.
Beef Sukiyaki and chicken Teriyaki are the main favourites, with sea weed and ginger on rice for $5.50 and $5.70. That's ridiculously cheap for a main dish.
The speciality of Don Don would be the Don Don Box. It is a bento box which consists of both the Sukiyaki and Teriyaki with rice and some salad with a slice of fruit. All that for $7.70.
More suggestions to try would be the Curry Chicken Don or Curry Tofu Don for the vegetarians. Their ratings depends on if you're used to the smooth sweet flavours of Japanese curries instead of the spicy hot chunky gravy of Indian curries.
One important factor, is that you get served by actual Japanese in Don Don. How many times have you entered a Japanese restaurant, only to discover that the chef is speaking mandarin/cantonese to the waiters?
The dim lights and the Jazz music creates a funky ambient that actually pulls it off even with that little amount of space.
You might need to avoid lunch hours if you want to have a quiet, relaxed and peaceful meal with your friends.

Quality: 8.5 Service: 10 Value: 10 Variety: 7.5
Score:9