No matter how long you've lived in Melbourne, there are always treasures you won't have noticed down a laneway or through an arcade.
Salero Kito, a restaurant specialising in Indonesian Padang cuisine, is one these spots you wish you'd discovered earlier. Padang cuisine originates from the Indonesian province of West Sumatra but its deliciousness has taken it across the archipelago and over to Australia.
You'll recognise Padang restaurants by the myriad of plates - think beef rendang, chilli eggplant, curried fish, potato patties and sambal - stacked up behind shopfront windows or on tables. Australian regulations won't allow such stacking, so husband and wife owners, Afdal Utama and Tika Kartini, have adapted the visuals by placing curries in bain-marie behind glass.
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