BALLARAT\u2019S food culture will soon be displayed on national television with local restaurants to appear in an upcoming series highlighting Australian\u2019s characteristic cuisine.<\/p>\n
The city will be the star attraction in the SBS On Demand series Adam and Poh’s Great Australian Bites which is set to premiere next Tuesday.<\/p>\n
With the show aimed at exploring Australia\u2019s food identity, Adam Liaw, one half of the connoisseur duo alongside Poh Ling Yeow, said the pair enjoyed a plethora of Ballarat offerings.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the focuses while we were there was the Golden Crown Chinese restaurant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been operating that for 40-plus years and it\u2019s just the kind of thing Poh and I like. Then we had some great food at Moon and Mountain. We had some dim sims at Louey Soong\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pair\u2019s visit also took them around Lake Wendouree, where they did some filming with chef and author Elizabeth Chong whose father William Chen Wing Young invented the dim sim.<\/p>\n
Ballarat will feature in the series\u2019 fourth episode, with other releases to showcase Gippsland, Alice Springs, Launceston, and Sydney.<\/p>\n
Liaw said Ballarat was the perfect place to encapsulate the episode\u2019s theme of Chinese food in regional Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cBallarat has such a long history with the goldrush and the Chinese migrants that came there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s almost the epicentre of a lot of the early Chinese-Australian cuisine that in my view has become truly Australian cuisine.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t go anywhere in the country without finding a Chinese restaurant. It\u2019s as part of our history as much as a pub or a bakery might be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam and Poh’s Great Australian Bites\u2019 Ballarat episode will be available to stream on Tuesday 29 August on SBS On Demand and on SBS Food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BALLARAT\u2019S food culture will soon be displayed on national television with local restaurants to appear in an upcoming series highlighting Australian\u2019s characteristic cuisine. The city will be the star attraction in the SBS On Demand series Adam and Poh’s Great Australian Bites which is set to premiere next Tuesday. With the show aimed at exploring […]<\/p>\n