National cuisine, food in Australia

Modern Australian Cuisine is certainly one of a kind among the more “variegated” and diverse cuisines in our world. Based mainly on Irish-British customs, the cuisine managed to absorb even more customs and methods of preparing Asian cooking, especially from Malaysia, China and Japan. It is distinguished by a bunch of delights and formalities in serving dishes. It is refined, and at the same time simple to the smallest detail. It has enormous potential, because it has its own production of dairy products and cheeses.

Australian food

It should be noted that this country is full of immigrants. But for the most part, the presence and influence of immigrants from Asian countries is felt here, especially in big cities. As for the light-skinned population, they are mainly Irish and English, and they brought their eating habits with them to Australia. Therefore, almost any restaurant in any city serves Fish and Chips. The manner of eating is also appropriate - they eat from cardboards or even with their bare hands.

The work of food establishments also has its own peculiarity - between lunch and dinner (from 2 to 6 pm) restaurants close, and you are unlikely to find a place where you can have a snack. The only way to avoid this is to visit a place called Take Away (food to go) or stock up on food at the store. Take Away offers various types of street fast food - pita bread with vegetable filling, hot dogs, etc. In the store, the choice will be wider and better quality; here you can buy more familiar food - meat, salads, chicken, etc. Everything is like ours. Another option is to buy semi-finished products at the supermarket and cook them yourself at the hotel. But here, too, everything is not so simple - in the supermarket they sell completely unsalted, empty-tasting meat, and at the same time, no matter how many spices you add to it, it will remain that way.

In big cities there are many restaurants serving national cuisine, but here there is another problem - you need to book a table in advance. Even if you come to an empty restaurant, you may be given a table only after 15 minutes, and all this time you will have to sit at the bar. This is their procedure: first you need to wait 15 minutes, only after this time you can remove the order from the table. There are no such problems with catering establishments only in fairly fashionable tourist places, such as Harvey Bay or the Gold Coast.

About tip in Australia

In this country it is not customary to give them. When you pay by invoice, you will be refunded your change in full. Of course, if you wish, you can leave a certain amount separately, but this will not in any way affect the attitude towards you.
By the way, it should be noted that in Australia there are establishments that do not have the right to sell alcoholic beverages. But this does not mean that you cannot drink here; on the contrary, if you purchase alcohol in advance at the store, then you will not only be able to drink it in such a restaurant, but they will calmly bring you glasses for the drink and a bucket of ice. And all this won’t cost you a cent.

Due to the fact that Asians prefer to live in big cities, there are a lot of themed restaurants in such places - Japanese and Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese, Thai and Indonesian. In the provinces, food traditions are much simpler, because mostly white-skinned people (or aborigines) live here.
If we talk about the most affordable food, then these are, as a rule, self-service food courts, but each of them offers something different: seafood, meat, vegetables, etc. The food here is not bad, although rather tasteless.

As for prices, food here is somewhat cheaper than in America and Europe, but not cheaper than food in Asian countries.

#Australian Menu – Meat

It is topped here on par with a roast steak from australian menu, fried with a small amount of blood meat, as well as pork and lamb tenderloin with preparation methods, the meat of animals, kangaroo, possum, hare, ostrich, crocodile or “regional dishes” from the larvae of “uitheti” and beetles are widely consumed. Very famous are “pai” - meaty products made from baked dough, beef sirloin marinated in viscous “bitrut” and broccoli cari, “kapit” - a huge steak, “Melburn” chicken with very spicy gravy, kangaroo fillet steak with pickled mushrooms , and also a sweet salad made from huge pieces of ham rolled into tubes and various “sate”. Along with pizza, smoked ribs are very famous, and a side dish with lightly fried chicken perfectly complements the spicy soup called “tom yum,” and crystal “dolma” in Australia is no less common than ordinary Russian dumplings Ravioli. As you understand, meat is an integral part of life for Australians, and if you ask them about their favorite dish, half will answer that it is a huge portion of a piece of meat.

#Australian Menu – Oysters and mussels

Oysters and mussels, various fish, scallops and shrimp, crabs and octopus – various seafood for the Australian festive event and not only, they are considered an integral and obligatory part. There are a huge number of methods for making various dishes, but the greatest fame here is gained initially by the recipe characteristics of Asia and dishes in which the food product is consumed virtually raw, or exactly the opposite - processed to the point of complete unrecognizability, and in an essential routine will be accompanied by rice or sauce.
The national Australian food brand is considered to be barracuda (particularly caught in the region of the town of Cleveland), as well as trout baked on coals, barramandi fish and salmon brought from Tasmania.

To meat - fish products more often it is assumed to be “chutney” - a specifically fragrant and widely available spicy spice made from green sour apples with cloves, ginger and sour wine vinegar. She's gorgeous and almost every second Australian likes her.
It is noteworthy that regional pickles (a mixture of vegetables) are used in the preparation of various salads and dressings. They are prepared both raw and processed. Incredibly, some of our fruits (for example bananas) are used as a side dish and served with meat. Considering them vegetables.

In accordance with the number of various berries and fruits in Australia, it is obviously close to the number of global favorites - lychee, kiwi, liana, papaya, mango, citrus fruits, avocado and many other tropical fruits They are not used in any way as a stand-alone dessert, but they are used in many creative and exotic dishes. About fifty percent of plants growing in Australia are edible. Various regional exotic fruits and pickles are widely used in cooking - plums, banja nuts, riberriz, acacia seeds, pepper leaves, and a lot of others.

State desserts are considered:

“pavlova” – kiwi with cream whipped until smooth and a cake strewn with coconut flakes and sprinkled with “lamington” chocolate sponge cake, Arnota sponge cake, and “anzaks” cookies baked from flakes in the oven with the addition of coconut. Australians like to wash down sweets with tea, or less often with coffee and cocoa. Ice cream and cocktails based on fruit juices are in great demand.

If we talk about the diet of any Australian, we will see the following:

• breakfast consists of vegetables and bread, eggs and meat, and of course tea
• lunch consists of steak with potatoes and onions
• dinner consists of soup, appetizer and dessert

Australian cuisine - the cuisine of the future! After reading about this, I want to go and try the unusually beautiful and huge dishes.

Perch from Australia "Baramundi"

Ichthyologists call this fish Lates calcarifer; the indigenous inhabitants of Australia call it “bara”, and the whole world knows it as “Barramundi” and one of the symbols of the continent. Australian perch is the dream of any fishing tourist.

Vegemite is difficult to buy outside the continent, and therefore it is a matter of honor for tourists to purchase the coveted yellow-red jar. But in Australia, Vegemite is mega-popular. It is sold in every store, it is an indispensable part of almost any meal, and is even included in the list of required travel supplies. Australians value Vegemite not only for its unique bitter taste, but also for the benefits it brings: this sandwich spread is simply a storehouse of minerals and vitamins, including group B. Thanks to its consistency reminiscent of processed cheese, Vegemite can be used for sandwiches or added to other dishes.