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Bala's

Join the hungry horde

1E Shakespeare Grove
St Kilda
Melbourne, VIC 3182

Nearest Train: Trams 16, 69, 79, 96; buses 606, 623

Phone: +61 3 9534 6116

Despite its rather insalubrious location behind Luna Park and opposite the Acland Street public toilets, Bala's is undeniably the most popular takeaway outlet in St Kilda if not all Melbourne. Bala's interior design is more non-existent than hard on the eye. Fast, Asian street food is what it is about, and patrons are not encouraged to hang around. Locals love the food and many survive on a weekly diet of Bala's either fresh or reheated. The quality varies from day to day, but the dishes remain consistent; yellow curry tofu and mushrooms, panang curry beef, pakoras.