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The duo are already renowned hospitality gurus, with past endeavours that include Vietnamese stalwart Cafe Hanoi, Northern Thai joint Saan and inner-city dumpling bar Xuxu. Chinese fare is an expected next step given their repertoire, but when I ask McGeorge if his aim is to authentically check off all Asian cuisines, to ‘collect them all’, as it were, he laughs.
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Tony McGeorge owns Ghost Street alongside partner Krishna Botica. “Even trying to check off a tenth of all the cuisines in Asia would be an impossibility, it’s far too complicated, far too complex,” he says. “I wouldn’t even want to say that we’re doing authentic Chinese food because it’s so subjective,” he says, “and authentic experiences vary depending on where you are from”.