1, weekday food: patties and sandwiches.
Although the pace of life in Australia is famous for its laziness and leisure, because there is no separate lunch time in Australia on weekdays, everyone will only have half an hour to take turns to eat, so the fast food and catering industry occupies a very important position here to adapt to the fast pace of people's lunch. Working meals in Australia are usually served in a bakery or deli. Many bakeries, candy stores and other businesses will compete to open stores in the office gathering area, and provide Australians with snacks made of various beef or poultry products on weekdays, such as patties, sausage rolls, patties and so on.
In addition, sandwiches also play an important role in Australians' working day diet. As a simple and easy-to-cook fast food, you can often see it in the working meals brought by Australians or in the daily diet of students. The classic Australian steak sandwich is made of beef, cheese, tomato slices and square slices of bread. Nowadays, innovative Australians have developed many new kinds of sandwiches, and the main ingredients for making sandwiches have also expanded from steak to chicken chops, fish chops and canned meat. Of course, no matter what kind of fast food, Australians like to add ketchup when eating, which looks different.
2. Traditional staple food: steak and steak.
Influenced by the first generation of immigrants from Britain, Italy and other western countries, the traditional staple food of Australians is still western food, such as pasta and macaroni, but meat is the most important food. However, people in this multicultural country have created many fresh practices for all kinds of meat, which makes all kinds of meat present different flavors. Australians have always been famous for creating delicious food. They add different ingredients and some special condiments to all kinds of meat and steak, such as the very popular roast steak, Worcestershire Chili sauce, barbecue barbecue sauce and bacon. There is also a Mexican steak with ketchup, cheese and jalapenos; There is also barbecue with cheese, cheese, bacon and fresh tomato juice, which has a unique taste.
Of course, Australians don't just eat meat as we think. Australians pay great attention to the combination of meat and vegetables, so when eating all kinds of meat, they will inevitably be accompanied by some fruit or vegetable salads to ensure a balanced nutrition.
3. Special food: seafood products.
Surrounded by the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Australia has a long coastline, and most cities are by the sea. The unique vast sea area provides Australians with inexhaustible seafood products, and seafood has become one of the important components of Australian daily diet. For example, oysters in Sydney, mud crabs and Moriton crayfish in Queensland, lobsters in South Australia and Western Australia, and barramundi (lungfish) in the Northern Territory are all very famous.
After Australians buy seafood, cooking, frying, barbecue and baked seafood with cheese are the most common ways to eat. In addition, Australians often enjoy seafood on some special occasions, such as holiday parties and BBQ barbecues. More often, Australians like to buy frozen seafood, and the varieties they like to eat are very different from ours. When you come to Australia, you can also try to buy some seafood that Australians love and cook it yourself. Maybe it has a different taste. These seafood may not be delicious because of personal preference. At this time, it is advisable to try the practices of Australian locals in another place, and there will often be unexpected surprises.
4. party food: BBQ barbecue
If you are in Australia, you will find BBQ barbecues everywhere. BBQ barbecue is absolutely indispensable whether it is a daily family gathering or a holiday gathering. Moreover, Australia's unique climatic conditions and the free barbecue facilities provided by the government make it difficult for Australians not to love it.
Barbecue is very interesting for Australians. Usually one person is responsible for baking. Only this person can turn the meat slices on the barbecue, another person is responsible for preparing the sauce, and others just need to wait around the barbecue to eat.
The barbecue ingredients commonly used by Australians mainly include all kinds of meat (chicken and beef are common) and seafood. Of course, in Australia, almost all food can be used for barbecue, and potatoes, mushrooms and vegetables are also frequent visitors on BBQ. BBQ must have these ingredients: beef sauce, sliced bread, onion, tomato and tomato juice. At the same time of eating barbecue, some fruits and desserts will be specially provided, and some beer and red wine will be provided with the meal if you are in high spirits.
5. Innovative food: fusion dishes.
Australia, which occupies a multicultural geographical position, is a scene of integration at the dinner table. Mixed cooking is the characteristic of modern Australian diet: the taste characteristics of different countries are mixed in one dish. Therefore, in the diet of Australians, you will find that a dish contains elements from many countries, such as rice rolls (also known as Vietnamese spring rolls) containing Japanese sashimi, which is a combination of traditional Vietnamese cuisine and Japanese specialties; Italian pizza embryo is coated with Mexican flavor seasoning to make delicious Mexican flavor pizza. Nowadays, the cooking style and combination of this kind of fusion dishes have increasingly appeared in the daily diet of Australians.