If you’re looking for an excuse to put down the tin of tuna and step away from the bag of supermarket salad, say hello to slinger Banana Blossom in Broadbeach. It’s here to spruce up your midday meal with bowls brimming with beautifully fresh and flavoursome ingredients, secret-recipe sauces and nourishing noodles. There are fifteen tried-and-tested different salad combinations to choose from, ranging from the Tokyo Classic, which is Broadbeach’s best-selling bowl, loaded with soba noodles, cucumber, cherry tomato, avocado and a splash of white sesame sweet soy dressing, and The Blossom, rice noodles, edamame, cucumber, zesty green sauce. Meat-free mates can stick their chopsticks into one of four vegan-friendly bowls including the likes of Thai Tofu (rice noodles, cucumber, bean sprouts, edamame, peanuts and Thai-lime dressing. Alongside salads, there’s a scattering of rice bowls and Vietnamese-style rice paper rolls. Banana Blossom is definitive proof that you do, in fact, make friends with salad.