If you come to Sydney, I’m sure you will see the Opera House, Harbour Bridge and Bondi Beach and if you have time the Taronga Zoo. But have you thought about your
pappillae ?
I’m sure, for you, Australian food is just roasted meat and vegetables, most time burnt as was our chicken Satay last Sunday at a birthday BBQ.
As Australia is a multicultural country, you find whatever you wish : Italian, Greek, Indian, Lebanese, French which is quite expensive of course and above all Asian : Thai, Cantonese, Japanese, Mongolian … for next to nothing. Imagine you can eat quite a big portion of spicy chicken with rice and a tea pot for only AU$ 6.50 (1 AU$ = 0.97 Swiss Francs). So, why bother about cooking!
I discovered yesterday a paradise for the fish gourmets, the Fish Market at the Harbour. Unbelievable, we find tuna, salmon, big or small fish and moreover lobsters, oysters, blue crabs when they are still raw, sea urchins as well as already prepared seafood plates to take away or eat in, sushis bars, fried prawns, that was just great. Laurence, a friend, bought very small fried fish and ate them at the market’s terrace by the ocean. I bought some fresh scallops (coquilles St-Jacques) which I’m looking forward to cooking tonight.