Do any restaurants serve wichity grubs or any other traditional aboriginal food?

Question

Do any restaurants serve wichity grubs or any other traditional aboriginal food?

Answer 1

Gunya Lounge bar and bistro

106 GEORGE STREET,

REDFERN.

TEL: [phone].

Open Mon-Fri noon-8.30pm; Sat-Sun noon-4pm.

Answer 2

You may have luck in Cape May, N. J.

Answer 3

This was tricky to find out, but here you go....

Darwin

Corroboree Evening Cruise (Tel. [phone]). On this trip you meet and talk to Aborigines from five different tribes. Dinner is local fish cooked the Aboriginal way on coals.

Sydney

Forgotten Valley Alpine Restaurant (Tel. [phone]). The restaurant is a one hour drive from Sydney or a short helicopter ride. It is in the country overlooking a river. Many of the dishes are seasoned with produce from the Australian bush.

Wattle Seed Deli, corner of Ultimo Road and Quay Street, Haymarket. Here you can buy a wide selection of indigenous foods including rainforest fruits, roasted wattle seeds, various nuts and berries, frozen rosella flowers and smoked kangaroo meat. You can also try some "wattlecino" which is wattle seed put through the cappuccino machine to make a caffeine-free drink.

Canberra

Contact Monarch Tours (Tel. [phone]) for information about a bush tucker tour. Tours can be structured to meet individual needs.

Northern Territory

There are many tours here which take visitors to meet the Aborigines who explain how to find bush tucker and how to cook it their way. As times and dates change and tours can be planned for specific needs, it is best to contact the Northern Territory Tourist Commission (089/52 4711).

The Stuart Room in the Four Seasons Avers Rock Hotel (089/56 2156) includes bush tucker and seasoning in its dishes. It offers witchetty grubs sauteed in garlic, kangaroo meat smoked or roasted and Papunya Salad. Papunya salad, named after a local Aborigine community, comprises smoked rabbit, smoked kangaroo and witchetty grubs tossed in a rosemary oil and roasted pine nut dressing.

Far North Queensland

Contact Far North Promotions Bureau (070/513588)

Victoria

Branbuk Living Cultural Centre, Halls Gap in the Grampians National Park. (053/56 4452)