Health
FootscrayChinese Medicine Centre.
Hopkins TCM. Phone to book. Sunday disagrees.
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What people get wrong
Phone bookings only on Bookwell. Email on the fascia is footscraycm@yahoo.com. Sunday hours disagree across directories. This is not ED and not a GP. Not TerryWhite at 132-134. We last walked this on 2026-09-21. Hours move with the week. Checking the shopfront keeps the night easy.
What is Footscray Chinese Medicine Centre known for?
Footscray Chinese Medicine Centre is known as the Hopkins herb room: acupuncture, cupping, a Sunday clock that still fights itself, an awning that also reads Guo Yi Tang.
You walk Hopkins from the station past Nhu Lan and TerryWhite to 139. The Bookwell shopfront photo still shows FOOTSCRAY CHINESE MEDICINE AND ACUPUNCTURE with Korean red ginseng next door. Inside it is Chinese herbal treatments, acupuncture, cupping, massage, moxibustion and scraping the venue page names, private rooms, a restful clinic that is not a GP waiting room. Phone (03) 9687 3388. Email on the fascia: footscraycm@yahoo.com. Bookwell says phone bookings only. That is the door, not the green chemist glass and not a dumpling queue.
This is not TerryWhite. This is not Nhu Lan. This is not Mc Dumpling. This is not Golden Horse. This is not a Leeds GP. This is not ED. Medicare TCM is not the Leeds bulk-bill medical story. Ask about fees when you phone. Health funds for acupuncture are a till question. The Hopkins fascia is Chinese, Vietnamese and English. Ask when you phone if you need a language other than English. Do not assume the herbalist is a Vietnamese-speaking GP.
You came because someone said Chinese medicine on Hopkins, and because a parent who trusted a Waze Sunday widget, then walked here at 11am Sunday, is how a morning dies. Bookwell printed Closed today on the Sunday we fetched. Directories still print Sunday 10am to 5pm. Call first. Confirm the glass. Stay on this awning. Guo Yi Tang is the tell. Korean red ginseng next door is a neighbour shop, not this booking. Do not invent a wait from that till.
What should you bring to Footscray Chinese Medicine Centre?
You should bring the booking, then a health-fund card if you have one, then the phone that can take (03) 9687 3388 if Sunday is the job.
Walk-ins are not the Bookwell story. Phone first. If you needed a GP, Leeds or the plaza. If you needed a chemist, TerryWhite is a few doors. If you needed ED, Geelong Road. If you needed yum cha, Golden Horse is a different Hopkins job. If you needed Vietnamese in a medical chair, Millennium or Leeds is the GP question, not this herb room.
Stay long enough to match 139 to the Chinese medicine awning. Street parking is short. Irving deck if you were already at the market. After dark walk Hopkins rather than cutting Nicholson Mall. The Bookwell weekday clock dies at 6pm. A coffee at Hung Vuong is how you miss a last slot.
Bring the question. This is not a hospital outpatient clinic. Do not arrive with an ED problem and a herb bag. After hours a true emergency is 000. We refuse to pick a Sunday. Cite the glass. Do not invent a wait from the banh mi queue. Those are different doors.
Hours, tickets and queues at Footscray Chinese Medicine Centre
Quoted hours from Bookwell: Monday to Saturday 9am to 6pm, phone bookings only, no Sunday listed. Call (03) 9687 3388. Last checked 2026-09-21. Glance at the glass.
Fresha, Waze and Birdeye have printed Sunday 10am to 5pm and a 9:30 weekday start. Bookwell printed Closed today on Sunday 21 September 2026. We refuse to invent a Sunday. Public holidays shuffle. Fees are a phone question.
Email beats a maps widget. Phone still beats email for a same-day book. This clinic is not 24 hours. Do not treat Hopkins as a 7-day medical mall. A 6:10pm weekday dad is already too late. TerryWhite may still be open on a weekday healthdirect card. That is a till, not a treatment room.
How do you get to Footscray Chinese Medicine Centre in Footscray?
You get to Footscray Chinese Medicine Centre by walking Hopkins from Footscray station toward the market food strip, to 139, a TCM clinic, not the chemist and not yum cha.
Street parking is short. Irving deck if you were driving for the market. After dark Hopkins is still the brighter walk. This clinic will already be closed after 6pm on the Bookwell card and may be dark all Sunday. Do not use the hospital car park for a herb consult.
If you wanted TerryWhite, 132-134. If you wanted a GP, Leeds or the plaza. If you wanted ED, 20 Geelong Road. If you wanted banh mi, Nhu Lan. This listing is 139. A 406 that dumps you at VU Park is the hospital edge, a different pain job. Walk Hopkins if the room is the job. Drive Geelong Road if the chest is the job. Do not mash them because both say Footscray. Mc Dumpling is lunch. This room is not lunch. A herb bag is not a reason to skip the chemist if you also have a script.
What do people mix up about Footscray Chinese Medicine Centre?
They walk into TerryWhite, or they treat Sunday as a given, or they mash yum cha with herbs, and they miss a Hopkins clinic that still wants 139 and a phone booking.
- 139 Hopkins Street, Footscray VIC 3011 only.
- Phone (03) 9687 3388. Bookwell: phone bookings only.
- Bookwell Mon-Sat 9am-6pm. Sunday disagreed on Fresha, Waze, Birdeye.
- Herbs, acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion, scraping, massage.
- Not ED. Not a GP. Not yum cha. Not TerryWhite.
Questions people ask next
- Where is Footscray Chinese Medicine Centre?
- 139 Hopkins Street, Footscray VIC 3011. Footscray station is a walk along Hopkins. It is not the hospital and not Golden Horse.
- What are Footscray Chinese Medicine Centre hours?
- Bookwell prints Monday to Saturday 9am-6pm and no Sunday. Fresha, Waze and Birdeye print Sunday. Call (03) 9687 3388. Last checked 2026-09-21.
- How do I get to Footscray Chinese Medicine Centre from the station?
- Walk Hopkins to 139. Irving deck if you were driving for the market. Match the Chinese medicine awning, not Nhu Lan.
- Is Footscray Chinese Medicine Centre the emergency department?
- No. ED is Footscray Hospital, 20 Geelong Road, 24 hours. This is a TCM clinic. Phone bookings on Bookwell. Not a GP.
Where we checked
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Hopkins chemist. Weekend clocks fight. Confirm glass.
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Pork-and-chive potstickers, still hissing. Not yum cha.
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Nhu Lan Bakery
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