Bicheno Street Food

Bicheno Street Food


Bicheno Street Food is largely influenced by British English cuisine and cooking styles, as Australia formerly was a colony of the United Kingdom. With its vast farmlands and clean oceans, most food in Bicheno is fresh, sustainably sourced, and natural. Dishes are clean-tasting and kept simple, usually showcasing the natural flavours of the ingredients, and thus have little sauces or dressings.

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Food in Bicheno is typically found in individual restaurants and cafes. Restaurants and cafes tend to be clustered within an area, typically the town centre. Common ingredients used here include beef, chicken, lamb, fish, prawn / shrimp, oyster, squid, crayfish, lobster, milk, cheese, honey, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, leeks, asparagus, lettuce, tomato, onion, mushrooms, peas, rhubarb, zucchini, squash, eggplant / aubergine, spinach, apples, oranges, pears, strawberries, cherries, apricots, grapes, bread, noodles, white rice, potatoes, yoghurt, butter, and more.

It's fairly common for most Bicheno families to cook at home, rather than eat-out, as not only is it cheaper, but there isn't a lot of variety of cuisines here. Recently, there's an increased interest and influx of Chinese, Indian, and Japanese cuisine. Seafood restaurants are a highlight, and you're usually able to get a good seafood meal at most places.


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An iconic Chinese stir-fry, the Black Bean Sauce Beef consists of sliced beef rubbed with cornstarch and baking soda. The cut of beef used is usually inexpensive, such as chuck, flank, flap, or sirloin. It's then stir-fried with red onions, bell peppers / capsicum, garlic, and black beans, in a gravy of light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, white sugar, black pepper, oyster sauce, Shaoxing rice wine, and sesame oil. The beef is tender with meaty savoury salty spice flavour, the red onions are soft and caramelised with vegetal sweet notes, while the bell peppers / capsicum is crunchy with vegetal sweet sour spice flavour. Other seasonal vegetables are used in Bicheno, including zucchini and carrots.

Black Bean Sauce Beef

Black Bean Sauce Beef

The Cornish Pasty is a type of British English baked confectionery most closely associated with Cornwall, South West England, England, United Kingdom. A firm crusty pastry shell, in the shape of a crescent, is filled with a tender soft mix of ingredients, including bits of minced beef, diced potato, diced carrot, white onions, salt, diced yellow turnip / swede, white pepper or black pepper, and sometimes pork bacon. Baked to a golden brown, this has bready savoury peppery spice salty sweet starchy flavour.

Cornish Pasty

Cornish Pasty

Cornish Pasty

Designed to appeal to children and the young-at-heart, the Fairy Biscuit is a pretty confectionery, made with all-purpose flour, butter, white sugar or caster sugar, chicken egg, vanilla bean extract, rainbow coloured candy sprinkles, and optional icing sugar. Has a firm crunch to texture, with bright biscuity candied earthy floral sweet flavour. Optionally, it may be filled with a fruit jam, typically raspberry, strawberry, blueberry, apricot, lemon, or orange.

Fairy Biscuit

Fairy Biscuit

Fairy Biscuit

While the British Fish And Chips and the Australian Fish And Chips both use the same English style thick cut chips seasoned with salt and a dash of vinegar, the difference lies in the type of fish used. Australian Fish And Chips are typically made with firm white flesh fish that are common in Australia, such as John Dory, Whiptail Hake, Flathead, Reef Cod, Rock Cod, Flake, Basa Catfish, Blue Grenadier, or Barramundi. The fish is light battered and deep fried, then garnished with a slice of lemon and served with a side of tomato sauce or tartar sauce. It has a crisp exterior, a moist tender flaky interior, and a delicate sweet salty savoury flavour. In Bicheno, the most common type of fish used is Blue Eye Travalla, Blue Grenadier, Flake, or Flathead.

Fish And Chips

Fish And Chips

The Greek Horiatiki Salad, also known simply as Greek Salad or Horiatiki Salad, features a medley of fresh vegetables and a simple dressing. While the type of vegetables may vary, the salad generally comprises some or all of the following sliced ingredients, such as cucumbers, tomatoes or cherry tomatoes, red onions, kalamata olives, bell peppers / capsicum, salt, oregano, olive oil, and feta cheese. Some variations also include lettuce, capers, red radishes, anchovies, sardines, lemon juice, lime juice, balsamic vinegar, rocket leaves / arugula, or dill. This has crisp juicy crunchy soft textures, with bright vegetal sour sweet earthy bitter spice savoury salty herbal flavours.

Greek Horiatiki Salad

Greek Horiatiki Salad

The salmon fish is a common farmed fish here, making this fairly affordable on a day-to-day basis. The Salmon Fish Fillet is usually deboned and filleted, then pan-fried till the salmon fish skin turns crispy crunchy, while the flesh still has a nice medium pink colour, with a tender moist flaky texture. Sprinkled with a little salt to complement the natural taste, resulting in a savoury sweet salty flavour of the salmon fish fillet. Typically accompanied with a side salad, coleslaw, roast potatoes, or fries.

Salmon Fish Fillet

Salmon Fish Fillet

The once common Chinese Australasian dish of Honey Chicken is thankfully, getting less common, as good quality Chinese cuisine starts to become more accessible and prevalent. This fast-food dish features thin tender slices of chicken, coated in a thick crisp all-purpose flour batter, generously drizzled with a honey and sweet and sour sauce mix. The result is a bold flavour profile of floral sweet sour savoury.

Honey Chicken

Honey Chicken

The Ice Cream Peanut Butter Chocolate Top features a creamy smooth peanut butter ice cream with nutty floral sweet flavour, coated in a crunchy firm chocolate shell with chocolatey milky sweet flavour. Bite in for a satisfying crunch, however, this has to be eaten quickly before it melts and gets messy.

Ice Cream Peanut Butter Chocolate Top

Ice Cream Peanut Butter Chocolate Top

An Australian Meat Pie is a hand-sized meat pie, containing diced or minced meat, root vegetables, and gravy, in a solid pastry pie crust. Often consumed as a takeaway food snack, it's similar to the British style pie.

The Meat Pie Minced Beef is simple and straightforward. It has tender chewy minced beef in a rich meat gravy, within a crisp flaky pie crust. Carries robust meaty salty savoury buttery sweet flavour.

The Meat Pie Potato & Chunky Beef is luscious compared to other meat pies. It has tender chewy diced beef chunks in a rich meat gravy with black pepper, enhanced with creamy mashed potato, within a flaky pie crust. Has deep meaty starchy savoury salty sweet buttery peppery spice flavour.

The Meat Pie Scallop Mornay is a Tasmanian regional speciality, due to the ample availability of fresh scallops. This signature dish features tender juicy morsels of deshelled scallops, diced potatoes, white onions, and carrots, in a creamy mornay cheese gravy. Served within a crumbly pie pastry crust that is nicely butter glazed. The Meat Pie Scallop Mornay has a sweet savoury milky cheesy salty flavour. More elaborate versions also include peas, corn kernels, or broccoli. Usually eaten as a light meal or a snack, it's commonly sold in most cafes here. Can be somewhat of an acquired taste.

Meat Pie Minced Beef

Meat Pie Minced Beef

Meat Pie Minced Beef

Meat Pie Potato & Chunky Beef

Meat Pie Potato & Chunky Beef

Meat Pie Scallop Mornay

Meat Pie Scallop Mornay

Meat Pie Scallop Mornay

The Mulled Wine is made from a blend of red wine, cinnamon, star anise, ginger, cloves, cherry juice, orange juice, and vanilla bean extract. It's smooth and rich, served warm, carrying deep fruity sour earthy sweet spice flavour.

Mulled Wine

Mulled Wine

Oysters are a type of shellfish, regarded as a delicacy, and are commonly consumed either cooked or raw. Oysters are rich in protein, and an excellent source of zinc, iron, calcium, selenium, vitamin A, and vitamin B12.

The Oyster Raw involves just a sprinkle of lemon juice, lending a zesty tangy sour note to the natural briny sweet flavour of the oyster, with its slippery juicy texture.

Oyster Raw

Oyster Raw

The Rock Lobster Fresh is a common seafood delicacy in Bicheno. Features a whole or halved lobster, simply steamed, boiled, or poached, till cooked through. Has excellent succulent bouncy tender lobster meat, pulling easily out of the shell, with bright briny salty sweet savoury flavour. Often served with accompaniments, including chips or fries, salad, or other seafood.

Rock Lobster Fresh

Rock Lobster Fresh

A Sausage Roll is a type of savoury pastry, containing minced beef and carrots in a puff pastry shell. The Sausage Roll is named for its resemblance to a sausage, but in Singapore, it's interpreted literally with an actual sausage within the puff pastry shell.

Sausage Roll

Sausage Roll

Sausage Roll

Sausage Roll

The Tiger Prawns Fresh are beautifully cooked, crunchy and juicy and succulent. The fresh tiger prawns carry a lovely sweet savoury flavour, and can be accompanied by a lemon wedge and sauces, for example, tomato ketchup, tartar sauce, or thousand island sauce.

Tiger Prawns Fresh

Tiger Prawns Fresh

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