MX editorial illustration of noodles, dumplings and rice in a leafy Maroondah dining setting.

Maroondah Asian Food Guide: Restaurants, Takeaway and Cuisine Choices

“Let’s get Asian food” opens the conversation. It rarely finishes the dinner decision. A bowl of pho, a Japanese counter stop and an Indian meal ask quite different things of the evening.

This guide helps turn that broad suggestion into a more useful choice: start with the food, work out the kind of meal, then choose the area.

Find asian food by suburb: Bayswater · Bayswater North · Croydon · Croydon North · Croydon South · Heathmont · Kilsyth · Kilsyth South · Ringwood · Ringwood East · Ringwood North · Vermont · Wonga Park. See the full directory.

Shops along Croydon Main Street Shopping Centre

Croydon remains one of the largest local Asian-food centres, with 20 selected records across several cuisine groupings. MX photograph, July 2026.

How do I choose between Vietnamese, Chinese and Indian food nearby?

If a bowl of pho is what you have in mind, Bayswater gives you a clear starting point. Thiên Long at 718–720 Mountain Highway presents pho, rice-paper rolls and rice vermicelli on its official website, with dine-in and takeaway. The Vietnamese guide includes five Bayswater businesses.

A different meal points elsewhere. Little Dumpling on Hewish Road in Croydon provides a pickup menu including several dumpling fillings, rice and vegetable dishes. Cinnamon on Stud Road in Bayswater describes Indian and Nepalese food alongside a café menu. Naming the meal narrows the search more usefully than comparing suburb totals.

Where can I start with sushi at Eastland or Thai dining in Croydon?

A sushi purchase during a shopping trip is a different plan from meeting around a restaurant table. Eastland’s entries include Sushi Hub and a Sushi Izu counter inside Woolworths. Check the particular business and store location instead of treating every Japanese listing as the same format.

For an evening booking, Holy Basil Thai in Croydon provides a booking route and separate dine-in and takeaway menus. Those distinctions help you turn a cuisine preference into an actual arrangement.

Which local Asian food guide should I use?

The wider September directory contains 87 selected businesses across 13 suburbs, including Korean, Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian and Asian-fusion entries alongside the five dedicated cuisine guides. It is an overview of local choices, not a claim that these cuisines share one style.

Choose one dish or cuisine to explore, decide how you want to eat, and open the relevant local options. The cuisine links and full directory below let you follow that thread without reading every entry first.

Choose the guide that answers your question

The wider directory also retains the earlier Korean, Malaysian and Singaporean, Indonesian and Asian-fusion selections. Regional identity, dietary suitability and signature dishes require venue evidence; category labels alone do not establish them.

Five strong public-rating signals

Google ratings recorded 22 September 2026. Minimum 100 reviews; ordered by rating, then review count.

  1. Chingtao Chinese Restaurant, Ringwood East: 5 stars from 136 Google reviews
  2. Cinnamon Indian Nepalese Restaurant & Bar, Bayswater: 4.8 stars from 489 Google reviews
  3. Holy Basil Thai, Croydon: 4.8 stars from 464 Google reviews
  4. Mandarin Bistro, Vermont: 4.8 stars from 309 Google reviews
  5. Saam Saii Thai, Wonga Park: 4.8 stars from 271 Google reviews

These are public rating signals, not MX awards and not a ranking of different cuisines. Ratings change and cannot compare menu style, price, dietary needs, service format or the experience an individual reader wants.

Explore this guide on the map

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Mapped businesses
  • Thai Chaiyo Restaurant, Croydon
  • Indians Again Restaurant, Ringwood East
  • Street Corner Ringwood, Ringwood East
  • Mandarin Bistro, Vermont
  • Yen's Restaurant, Croydon
  • Thai’s Time, Kilsyth
  • Ang Ang, Ringwood
  • Pho Minh Long, Ringwood
  • Chingtao Chinese Restaurant, Ringwood East
  • Swagath Grand Ringwood, Ringwood
  • Thai Alley Eastland, Ringwood
  • ILZA JAPANESE CAFE NUNAWADING, Vermont
  • Sakura Sushi Vic, Croydon
  • Chiraag Indian & Nepalese Restaurant, Croydon
  • Pei Ho Chinese Food, Croydon
  • Sushi Sushi Eastland 2, Ringwood
  • Cilantro Thai Kitchen, Bayswater
  • BÁNH MÌ XPRESS - DRIVE THRU, Bayswater North
  • Kakuni Japanese Kitchen, Bayswater North
  • Bunmee and Fried Chicken, Croydon
  • Bintang Indo Cuisine, Bayswater
  • 24 Spices Indian Restaurant, Sweets and Cake, Bayswater, Bayswater
  • Block 7 Dumplings, Ringwood
  • Yang's Place, Ringwood East
  • My Little Saigon, Bayswater
  • D for Dumplings, Ringwood
  • Sushi And Coffee, Bayswater
  • Aroy-D Thai Restaurant, Ringwood North
  • Mr Lee's Foods, Ringwood East
  • Sushi Izu, Vermont
  • Yoghee’s Food Studio, Croydon
  • Sushi Izu, Ringwood
  • Double Dragon Dumplings Ringwood North, Ringwood North
  • Thai Ute Restaurant, Ringwood East
  • Coriander traditional Indian tandoori cuisine, Croydon
  • My Little Siam, Croydon South
  • Tokyo Sake, Ringwood North
  • Pokero, Ringwood
  • Masala & Mozzarella Restaurant Indo - Italian Dine In & Take Away, Croydon
  • Thai Lemon Tree, Croydon
  • Totem Sushi & Oyster, Croydon
  • Sushi Jiro Eastland, Ringwood
  • Junior Tan Hawker Kitchen, Bayswater
  • Saam Saii Thai, Wonga Park
  • TASTY PHO, Croydon
  • Sassy Thai Ringwood, Ringwood East
  • Xiang Xiang Private Kitchen 香香私房菜, Ringwood
  • Cinnamon Indian Nepalese Restaurant & Bar, Bayswater
  • Hancook Yori, Croydon
  • Piyada Thai, Croydon North
  • Wok All Day Chinese Cuisine, Croydon South
  • Yoyogi, Ringwood
  • Hitoshi, Ringwood
  • Asian Corner Takeaway, Ringwood
  • Chihiro All You Can Eat Japanese Restaurant Croydon, Croydon
  • Utsav Indian Restaurant, Heathmont
  • Pho Kha Tran, Bayswater
  • Taj Agra, Ringwood
  • Royal Punjab Indian Restaurant Ringwood, Ringwood
  • SAANJH INDIAN RESTAURANT, Bayswater
  • Spice Paradise Tandoori Indian Restaurant, Bayswater
  • Partake Restaurant, Ringwood
  • Holy Basil Thai, Croydon
  • Fortune Palace Chinese Cuisine, Croydon South
  • Roll'd Eastland, Ringwood
  • Thiên Long Restaurant, Bayswater
  • Aung Myanmar (Asian Cuisine), Croydon
  • g.wok’d (Wok'd Croydon), Croydon South
  • Seoul Ttukbaegi, Ringwood
  • Sushi Hub Eastland, Ringwood
  • Pho Huong Viet Saigon, Bayswater
  • Yang Yang Noodle & Dumpling, Heathmont
  • Pho Ngon Ngon, Croydon
  • Sashimi Master, Ringwood East
  • Taste of Cantonese粤唯鲜, Ringwood East
  • Penang Island Kopitiam Vermont, Vermont
  • Totem Sushi, Croydon
  • YAN BanhMi & Coffee, Kilsyth
  • Thai Tables, Bayswater
  • Chilli & Basil Thai (Melbourne), Bayswater
  • The Dish Thai, Heathmont
  • Viethouse Vietnamese Cuisine, Bayswater
  • Sushi Sushi Eastland, Ringwood
  • Little Dumpling, Croydon
  • Khao Thip Thai Restaurant, Heathmont
  • Eastern Dragon Chinese Take Away, Kilsyth South
  • Hot Chilli Thai Restaurant - Croydon, Croydon

The current suburb-by-suburb directory

Select a venue name to open its Google location. Where the database contains a public website or ordering page, a separate link is included. Links open in a new tab.

Jump to: Bayswater · Bayswater North · Croydon · Croydon North · Croydon South · Heathmont · Kilsyth · Kilsyth South · Ringwood · Ringwood East · Ringwood North · Vermont · Wonga Park

Asian food in Bayswater · 15

Asian food in Bayswater North · 2

Asian food in Croydon · 20

Asian food in Croydon North · 1

Asian food in Croydon South · 4

Asian food in Heathmont · 4

Asian food in Kilsyth · 2

Asian food in Kilsyth South · 1

Asian food in Ringwood · 21

Asian food in Ringwood East · 9

Asian food in Ringwood North · 3

Asian food in Vermont · 4

Asian food in Wonga Park · 1

Suburbs with no qualifying record in this snapshot

Croydon Hills and Warranwood. This does not prove that no suitable venue exists; it records what passed the September editorial rules.

What does your suburb do especially well?

The database can show clusters, but it cannot explain the family behind a restaurant, the regional traditions represented on a menu or the dish locals return for. That part of the guide should be built with venues and readers.

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Editorial updated 3 October 2026. Directory, menu and rating details retain their stated source dates; please check current details with the business.

Planning to bring your dog? Please check current dog access and any conditions with the venue or organiser before you go. A missing tick means we have no applicable positive evidence, not that dogs are prohibited.

Garth Lategan, MX editor · Editorial standards and corrections