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| Beans on Toast |
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| Japanese Pumpkin |
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| Exotic Foods of NZ and Australia |
| I met some wonderful cooks on this journey - Pepper and Lee could open their own restaurants - speaking of restaurants Pepper took me to a Chinese Yum Char - they serve various selections from carts that weave their way through the restaurant - one such cart had a pile of the above on it - I thought it was a joke - it wasnt lol - talk about being grossed out .....Pepper has really small hands ( to match her really small body - ) I made her take off her ring and put it on that chickens finger .... |
| Pepper always made sure there was a big bowl of fruit available - and talk about exotic !!! Some things I had never tasted before and arent even available in the US - like the fejoa - pictured below. Peppers friend Kathy made jam from many of these fruits and I was able to bring some home for family to sample. |
| Similar in appearance to our sweet potatoes and yet tastes altogether different |
| Tasted this in Oz, had never heard of it before |
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| Pepper said I just had to try a delicacy called whitebait .... I was a bit leary of the name since I am not in the habit of eating bait... but hey she said it was a gourmet treat there ... tried it - doesnt look bad does it ??? But............ ( SCROLL DOWN) |
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| This is how it looks before they make those fritters - those black things are eyeballs !!! Yuck - Pepper let me eat eyeballs !!!!! ( waaaaahhhhhh) |
| Whitebait |
| Later in my trip when I was in Tasmania I did in fact see a sign at a baitshop- they were having a special on whitebait - lol the Australian gent I was with however did say that it was in fact considered a delicious delicacy !!! |
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| Yum Char foods |
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