Australia unironically has banger Greek, Chinese, and Indonesian food scene (thanks to the migrants)
Vietnamese as well
Look I hate Australia like the best of us, but the thing is the food here is actually good.
It’s arguably the best quality white person food in the anglosphere (low bar I know), because we just copied what worked from Italian, Greek, Vietnamese, Chinese and many more communities.
Australian food is just copying another countries food and tweaking it and serving it in every café, restaurant or takeway.
-Flat White and Long Black (copy Italian coffee traditions).
-Chicken Parma (copy Italian Parmigiana)
-Dim Sims (copy Chinese dumplings, steal the name from Dim Sum)
-Chick Katsu Sushi rolls (copy Japanese sushi rolls but put avocado and snitzel in it)
-Burger with the lot (copy USA burger but add egg, beetroot and pineapple)
Short soup and long soup are awesome too (wonton and noodle Cantonese fusion soups respectively)
Aussie cafe food is sick, loads of awesome fusion stuff. Just near me (halfway to bumfuck nowhere) I have caradmom spiced oat porridge, crispy eggplant burger with Korean sesame inspired ssuce and shit.
-Similarly good wine because we just copied Italian traditions and later French
Banh mi on tiger bread (rather than baguette) and a snot block holleeeeee
Smashed avo with feta and balsam drizzle hollleeeeeeeee
Potato borek dipped in chilli sauce HOLLLEEEEEE
Dim Sims (copy Chinese dumplings, steal the name from Dim Sum)
dim sim with an i?
looking it up they’re like halfway between a shaomai and a jianbao? which i guess can be dim sum items, so it’s dim sum with an aus/nz accent. dim səm
do they have vegan ones
No, specifically dim sim, rhymes with Jim. Dim sum I’d wager some people would think you’re mispronouncing dim sim, and others would understand it to be dim sum (which we generalise as ‘what you eat at yum cha’).
Yes there are vegan ones but they wouldn’t be commonly sold at fast food stores. Dim sim are commonly found at fish and chip shops and are an accompaniment to that meal, or standalone snack. If you wanted vegan ones your best bet is finding frozen ones at the supermarket.
Also it’s 1 dim-sim, 2 dim-sims with the plural.
Dims sim like attorneys general
Typical settler colonialist nation, anything good is stolen from other countries. Modern Australian food takes a lot of influence from southeast Asian and Mediterranean food. And when I say southeast Asian I mean it’s kind of a grab bag of Thai, Viet, Korean, Indonesian and other influences. A lot of seafood, mixed with local ingredients. I once saw on a taqueria menu a fish taco made with barramundi and gochujang. Didn’t try it tho :im-vegan:
It’s not stolen lol it was brought by the people who came. It wasn’t Brits being like “Hmm I say Jeeves you know what would spice up life down here in the colonies? A bit of slur redacted coffee and some of those formosian noodles”.
Surprised no one has mentioned the hand pies in aus, they are real good.
Sausage sizzle fundraisers with a snag in a piece of bread is a good one too
That said I also saw hot dog sushi there, omg
Surprised no one has mentioned the hand pies in aus, they are real good.
Yeah even the stuff that is bog standard UK food like handpies, fish and chips etc will be much better than the stuff in the UK (I studied there for 12 weeks and boy it was grim)
Vegemite, flathead lobsters, macadamia nuts, finger limes, and musk sticks are the only uniquely Australian foods I can think of. Lots of other stuff we don’t really get in NA/EUR is widely available in South Asia so I don’t think of most of the tropical fruits like lychee or rambutan as Australian.
Oh, also stuff like Tim-Tams, but the sleeve of store brand ones I bought at Loblaws a few weeks ago was actually made in the Netherlands so idk.
e: Tasmanian pepperbush! I’ve been trying to get this for my spice collection to no avail for so long I forgot about them.
ELON MUSK STICKS
Tried them once, they were bloody awful. Tasted like the potpourri in my bubbe’s bathroom smelled.
Yeah that’s why theyre so good
Yeah, they’re definitely for people who grew up with them.
Fairy bread (party food)
Dim sim (thick skin pork dumplings)
Chiko roll (thick skin spring roll)
Lamington (sponge cake with dessicated coconut)
Pavlova (meringue cake with usually seasonal fruits or other toppings, we beef with the kiwis over this one)Most native fruits and nuts aren’t really commercially harvested at scale. South Africa is the largest producer of Macadamia nuts, even
Things like quandong, kakadu plum, finger lime (like you mentioned) are often seen as garnishes, preserves, powders etc. processed or high-end foods not every day tucker. Even other stuff that can be harvested locally like pigface, bunya pine nuts, warragul greens, figs and salt bush are not widely consumed outside of people who forage.
RATS! I forgot pavlova was Australian because my Filipina SIL is obsessed.
Australia has such good forageable foods compared to north Ontario, basically my only options are chanterelles and fiddleheads aside from berries in the spring.
Yeah there’s tons, we have fiddleheads and bird’s nest ferns (Asplenium sp.) too, the latter which is apparently a traditional foodstuff in Taiwan, for example.
I don’t forage because I live in the suburbs, but there’s plenty to find a bit further out.
On the other hand, Australia is basically Panaraneum and my wife is deathly arachnophobic so unfortunately I don’t think I’ll get to try foraging down there anytime soon. Alas!
Tim-Tams by themselves: is alright
A Tim-Tam Slam: chocolatey heaven in your mouth
I’m looking at growing Tassie pepper (need 2 fuck off bushes but) cause it’s awesome. So is strawberry gum and bush ginger.
I’ve heard that they like to use a naked woman’s body as a plate to eat shrimps off of, but instead of a real one, they use a Barbie doll. Very perverse if you ask me
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never been, don’t expect to go, but ive seen every episode of Mr. Inbetween twice.
I really want some dimmies and would not forget the soy sauce.
I really want some dimmies and would not forget the soy sauce.
A freshly deep fried dim sim is truly wondrous experience. A friend in highschool’s parents rented a big deep fryer for their birthday party and just did unlimited dim sims and I still think of it some 20 years later with yearning.
They’re fucking awful, I used to work at a servo that served them deep fried in beer batter and it was the worst and I want so many of them right fucking now.
Anglos have really bad food in general. Y’all see meals as an afterthought instead of a ritual. Are you really human?
Look there are a shitload of flaws with Australia but food culture here is a huge thing. Home cooking from scratch is the default, food reviewing and advertising your favourite hole in the wall place is common social behaviour, there’s a pathological obsession with authenticity in food among young professionals.
Australia is a nation of migrants and a lot of different cultures blend and mix here. That is reflected in the food.
Australian Anglo food IS good. Because it’s other non anglo food laundered as Anglo food.
same as most north europeans. in much of the world eating is a joy and an art. even people who are struggling try to make whatever they have taste nice. it’s something to be enjoyed and shared and experienced.
not so in northern europe! in these so called “developed” countries, with “high” ““standards of living””, these so called “”““happiest countries on earth””", people seem to think of food the way normal people think of toilet paper or toothpaste, something you reluctantly pick up at the shop because it’s on the grocery list. people in the netherlands and northern germany eat raw fish on untoasted white bread and call it “good.” people in the nordic countries eat cold supermarket bread with cold ham for breakfast and lunch every day and think it’s fine. in england, cucumber sandwiches with the crust cut off is the highest level of cuisine, often praised in literature and art.
the classic chinese meme of 白人饭 (CW: pictures of meat, eggs, cheese) perfectly captures the anglo-germanic non-cuisine.
i had something of a mini-struggle-session with a user here once when the topic of nordic/north germanic food came up, and i think they claimed it’s not fair to judge these countries because in history these countries never had a vegetable or seasoning because climate? so their non-cuisine developed in a different direction from that of normal human civilization? sure, cool, the “food” is still shit tho, and now they do have seasonings and vegetables so there’s no excuse.
“”““happiest countries on earth””"
I haven’t seen people more unhappy in their daily lives than Nordics. Denmark, Swedish, Finland, Norway. It’s the same shit. Those people don’t know how to smile! UK is a close second. It can’t be the cold. If it were then Iceland would’ve been a tropical country.
right? sure, you can be happy and not smile, but nordics seem vaguely miserable most of the time and don’t seem to enjoy life. yet they always top statistics lists of the happiest countries on the planet.
i suspect it’s self-reported statistics, and they just imagine themselves the happiest, and all other countries as even less happy than they are, because of course they are the best.
It’s good is what it is.
One of the Good Things about living in Australia is the food is actually great.
Throwing another shrimp on the barbie, mate
australian food is when you grill stuff and call it barbecue
Basically the whole commonwealth says barbecue for what USians call a grill, and typically say grill for what USians call a broiler.
Here in Canada, it’s kind of a mishmash, based on how American or British influenced the person’s upbringing was.
call it
barbecuebarbie, or with the accent, baahbie
What if i grilled a grill
Vegemite on toast. With a VB longneck. Or a Coopers Sparkling if it’s a special occasion
Best I can do you is marmite on rye with a stone & wood (deathly insult)
coopers red longneck at a quarter to 8 in the fucken morning
big day upcoming wew lad
American food but made from more exotic animals
Nah it’s four x on toast
spoiler
This pun kinda has to be said out loud cos XXXX (the beer, called four x) sounds like ‘four eggs’
how about forex on toast
