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Things to “Ta Pau” from Australia

Things to “Ta Pau” from Australia

Pack your bags with some of the best produce that South Australia has to offer. Words: Pamela Toh If, like me, you plan all your holidays based on the destination’s food culture, then South Australia is a pilgrimage you must go on at least once in your lifetime. With epic food-related road trips like the Southern Ocean Drive and the aptly-named Epicurean Way within the state, you can quite literally eat your way through your holiday and bring home some of the goodies you’ve had along the way to share the love with friends and family or simply enjoy by yourself in the comfort of your own home. Even if you did not have the time or luxury for a road trip around South Australia, you can find most of these items in Adelaide’s bustling Central Market Established in 1856, it is one of the oldest and largest covered markets in the Southern Hemisphere and I always make

They come in variants such as Valentine, Cupid and Cassanova and cost between A$9-10 (S$9-10) per dozen of the same variety. Based in the Eyre Peninsula, Seafood Online will pack and chill your bivalve molluscs in a hessian oyster sack, inside a polystyrene foam ice box, ready for the journey home. You will need to time your order such that you receive it in person on the day you fly home. Further details on placing your order, packaging and delivery as well as seafood handling tips are available on their website here.

Apart from Coffin Bay Oysters, Seafood Online also sells Spencer Gulf King Prawns, Southern Rock Lobster and Crayfish. With AVA’s personal consumption restriction on a maximum of 5kg of seafood products per person, you might as well make full use of the ice box your briny haul will be coming home in. Website: http://www.ava.gov.sg/explore-by-sections/food/bringing-food-into-singapore-and-exporting/bringing-food-for-personal-use Sauces Ever since I did the Kangaroo Island Food Safari with Australian Food legend Maggie Beer, I must confess to being a bit of a fangirl of her products. Yes, I know you can find a (very) limited range of her fine fare here in Singapore at certain specialty shops but nothing beats a visit to the mothership, Maggie Beer’s Farm Shop, in the Barossa.

Source: maggiebeer.com.au You will want to buy everything in sight but if luggage space is a constraint and you can only choose one thing, then it had better be Verjuice. Made from the juice of unfermented grapes and first produced commercially by Maggie Beer, you use it in salad dressings, for deglazing the pan or poaching fruit in place of lemon juice or vinegar that may be too acidic for your dish. A full range of her products are available online at here and can be shipped to anywhere in Australia. Her thoughtfully put together gourmet hampers make the perfect gift for any occasion. Cheese Although a wide variety of locally-made artisanal cheeses are widely available in Adelaide and all over South Australia, the one cheese I will always make room for in my luggage is King Saul, Australia’s first raw milk blue cheese.

Produced by Udder Delights in Hanhdorf near Adelaide Hills, just half an hour outside of the city, King Saul is handmade and matured for twice as long as other blue vein cheeses, allowing it to develop flavour complexities and a rich mouthfeel. The fact that only two or three cheese makers in the whole country are legally allowed to produce a raw milk cheese due to Australia’s strict legislation on raw milk, makes this both a rare and premium commodity. Only 200 half-kilogram wheels were made with the first vintage of which 80 were released in late 2014 and another 80 released in the autumn of 2015. Each individually numbered and beautifully packaged 500g wheel costs A$150 (S$150) and can only be purchased from the Udder Delights Cheese Cellar or express delivered at extra cost. Honey Kangaroo Island is home to the world’s last genetically pure population of the Ligurian

Island Beehive (top row) and Clifford’s Honey Farm (bottom) If you are in the area, be sure to drop by Island Beehive for a honey comb ice cream or Clifford’s Honey Farm for a range of by-products such as beeswax polishes, candles and cosmetics in addition to a wide variety of honey. Chocolate

To round off my veritable haul, I almost always bring back chocolate with me. Mention chocolate to a native South Australian and Haigh’s, Australia’s oldest family-owned chocolate maker that has been in business since 1915, will be mentioned. You can book a free guided factory viewing tour that runs for 20 minutes but let’s face it, it’s the candy store that features an extensive range of factory fresh chocolates and confectionery that you want to be let into. Be sure to take home their famous chocolate frogs, truffles, fudges and bars and look out for special seasonal flavours and some chocolate seconds at discounted prices. If I haven’t already maxed out my baggage allowance at this point, you can be sure that I will be hightailing it to the nearest butcher to pick up a Cryovac-packed slab of beef, a couple racks of lamb chops and a pound or two of homemade

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