Chinese food in Australia is for the most part, awful, but it is an awfulness within which you can revel. Steak and black bean sauce, paint-liftingly acidic lemon chicken, your-meat-of-choice stir-fried with cashew nut and cornstarch. Fried rice with peas in it and those little prawns (jumbo krill?) from a can that only exist to populate this specific dish. I still have a lot of love for it, mostly because it represents a resolutely Australian cuisine. It does bear a passing resemblance to Cantonese food, if you squint hard enough and have a terrible aversion to vegetable matter, offal and ...
Flemington, Footscray, Kensington, Seddon, Yarraville and Moonee Ponds (the inner west)
Hyperlocal news about Flemington 3031, Footscray 3011, Kensington 3031, Seddon 3011, Yarraville 3013and Moonee Ponds 3039 (the inner west) in Melbourne, Australia written by local experts
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Tweets from Footscray Arts
- Footscrayarts: You are invited to the Special Closing Event of Incarnations. RSVP to reception@footscrayarts.com. More info go to http://miniurl.org/0Vh July 28, 2010
- Footscrayarts: We heart Crumpler!: Last friday we received bean bags from our friends at Crumpler customised with our very own FC... http://bit.ly/cfhXwR July 26, 2010
- Footscrayarts: We heart Crumpler! We have just received bean bags from our friends at Crumpler customised with our logo. be using these during our events. July 23, 2010
- Footscrayarts: Sing up a storm with Amanda Armstrong and our Voice workshop. Tonight 7pm. Come along casually for $15 a session. July 22, 2010
- Footscrayarts: Tawanda Gadzikwa our Emerging Producer performs with Fernandez & Wright Thursday 22 July 9pm @ The Spanish Club Johnston Street Fitzroy July 21, 2010
Yarraville news from the ABC
- Police seize thousands of pirate videos May 11, 2010
- Accused landed fatal punch, court told February 22, 2010
- Warning of poor air quality in Melbourne's west February 16, 2010
- Public appeal renewed in Indian student murder case January 24, 2010
- Police retrace steps of murdered Indian student January 23, 2010
Flemington news from the ABC
- Another Nikolic ride under scrutiny July 10, 2010
- Weld takes aim at third Melbourne Cup June 18, 2010
- Beetles 'no threat' to Melbourne Cup June 10, 2010
- Zipping finally breaks Group One duck March 13, 2010
- Two charged over Flemington death March 10, 2010