Central, Brisbane: Restaurant review | Gourmet Traveller

Soy sauce is ubiquitous across cuisines and often overlooked as a key element – surprising, given its critical role in imparting salt and umami depth. At Central, it receives deserved attention, anchoring several impressive dishes.

Take the dim sum, which arrives with soy sauce infused with ginger and shallot. Or the sticky, caramelised char siu pork, which sits in a first draw soy sauce steeped with dried mandarin peel. Then there’s the classic roast duck, smoky and…