On the Australian island of Tasmania, it’s really easy to host your own food festival. From handmade Belgian-style chocolates to smoked salmon, cheese, honey ice cream, fresh berries, sweet seafood, fine wines... traveling to Tasmania can easily add a little fat to your waistline.

The House of Anvers is located in Latrobe, south of Devonport, and is famous for its handmade Belgian-style chocolates. In 1989, Belgian Igor Van Gerwen came to Australia and discovered that Tasmanian cream and butter had the richest flavor in the world and were very suitable for making filled chocolates and toffees. Of course, it's not just sweets that it's famous for.

The Avis Chocolate House has a distinct Flemish style, including the waiters' hats, vests and bow ties. French cheese baguette with smoked salmon is enough for two people. The chocolate bread was still warm, as if it had just been taken out of the oven. Delicious breads, cakes and handmade chocolates are all made in the small workshop in the back garden. The Aztecs call chocolate the food of the gods, and Anvis chocolate is so mellow that even the gods cannot resist it.

Continuing along the highway from Ashgrove Chocolate House, you will soon reach Ashgrove Farm. The milk used to make the cheese comes from the family dairy farm next door. All cheese flavors are available here, including delicious mustard cheese. In addition to the many more traditional cheeses, you can also try curd and whey.

On the way to the World Heritage Cradle Mountain (Cradle Mountain), I saw the road sign leading to 41ºC South Aquaculture and took a detour to a small salmon farm. The farm's owner Ziggy Pyka, who is originally from Germany, and his son Ben built fish ponds on the site, as well as nearby wetlands, boardwalks, smokehouses and everything else. The recipe for Ziggy Smoked Salmon comes from an old family tradition. "We soaked the fish in salt water for 24 hours, and added pepper, garlic, various red peppers, caraway seeds, mustard seeds, dill... Of course, I can't tell you all the ingredients."

Sitting under the tall eucalyptus trees, enjoying a whole salmon and fresh bread and cheese from Aix, this is a simple pleasure! Great food doesn't need any special decoration. There is also dessert after the meal, and we go to Christmas Mountain to pick raspberries by ourselves.

Christmas Hills Raspberry Farm is located near Aix. The berries used in the farm's waffles and pancakes all come from neighboring farms. During the ripe season, the restaurant serves freshly picked berries every evening. Plus used to bake cakes and muffins, there's never any fresh berries left every day. In order to let more people know about the delicious food here, the restaurant also set up stalls on the roadside to sell berries.

In addition to sweet fruits, there is also honey ice cream. Honey Farm is located in Chudleigh and is run by the Dutch Beerepoot family. Remmo, the eldest son of the family, said: "In 1999, our family moved to Tasmania because the feeling here is closer to Europe and the climate is cooler. The honey ice cream on the farm is even more pleasant than the salary increase ( Or should I say, close). There are more than 50 varieties of honey, including red pepper honey and leatherwood honey - harvested from the flowers of Leatherwood (Eucryphia ludda), a tree unique to Tasmania. have.

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