Melbourne's Chinatown began in the 1850s when the first Chinese immigrants arrived for the gold rush, explains Good Food. During the early days it served as meeting point, accommodation, employer, and food source for Melbourne's Chinese community, “salaciously boasting a few opium dens and a couple of brothels.” These days it's “more about dumplings than getting high, its boundaries stretching along Little Bourke Street, from Swanston Street to Spring Street, spilling out into arcades and alleyways along the way.”