American Reacts to 10 Melbourne STREET FOOD Eats you MUST TRY

[@k.vn.k]

If you gather every best cooks and chefs around the world and put them all in one place you got Australia. Literally.

[@TruthWins-b6t]

She is 100% Aussie, we don't judge people by their looks. Australia is proud of it's multiculturalism & embrace the foods our immigrants have brought with them. Our food is not filled with preservatives like American food is. Here fresh is best. You seem to think everything starts & ends with America.

[@ghas2429]

Australian cuisine is a mix of every country these days .. However, Our typical cuisine of old [ up to the 1960's] was more leaning to English Cuisine, These days .. because we are so multicultural.. Australia doesn't have a specific type of food... When I was a kid in the 1950's .. Meat pies, sausage rolls, pasties, Chinese and fish and chips were the only street food / [ Takeaway] It started with the Gold Rush in the 1850's.. when people came from many countries to the gold fields .. mainly white people with a few Chinese But after the 2nd World War people from different countries such as Italy and Greece to name 2 .. bought their cuisines .to share.. Later, after the Vietnam War .. we had many Vietnamese come followed these days by Arabs, South Asians [India], Nepalese etc

[@peterg219]

Oi, Oi, Oi mate... of course she's Aussie and sweet to the core. Australian food is food of the world in their authentic & modern forms. More so than any, Sydney Produce Markets have the largest range of fruit and vegetables to supply the diversity of food cultures that thrive in Australia. In that respect we are blessed by each other.

[@maryhanrahan]

Australian dishes are basically reflective of migration over the decades - that's why there is a lot of English, Italian and Greek influences traditionally but in recent decades because we are in South East Asia - the migration from all the eastern cultures heavily influences our food.

[@judileeming1589]

Close to 300 ethnicities in Melbourne and food choices are amazing.

[@russellturnbull4209]

She is aussie all the way.

[@blackie75]

He means her heritage, as in where does her family come from originally.

[@petermcculloch4933]

Why does it matter where her grandparents lived?Mine come from Rochester/Echuca but nobody questions me about the subject.

[@blackie75]

@@petermcculloch4933 Because it will have some bearing on her knowledge and preferences regarding food, not only that, who mentioned grandparents? Her parents or she herself may have been born in another country. Stop trying to imply that it's somehow racist to enquire about a person's family background or cultural heritage, it's ridiculous and divisive.

[@MsTtilly]

These ARE all Australian dishes - Multi-Cultural Melbourne

[@vivianhull3317]

I love the donor kebab but i prefer the Greek souvlaki with real real roast lamb cut into pieces, lettuce and tomato, with garlic sauce

[@PUTDEVICE]

remember it's Australian dollars. so the dish at the beginning that cost 4 AUD dollars is 2.7 USD

[@julesmarwell8023]

Queen Victoria market is the biggest market in the southern hemisphere...

[@LaniAnn-2005]

Melbourne just had so much food. So multicultural. Our taste buds have adapted to all the different cuisines so apart from sausage rolls and meat pies which we still love everyone just likes every thing

[@Bellas1717]

And snags from Bunnings!

[@bernadettelanders7306]

If you buy takeaway in Aus that’s from another country, usually it’s made by the people from that country who have emigrated here, so many are ridgy didge authentic. Aussie food? I was born and bred in Australia. As a child it was meat and vegetables every night, Sunday was the best lamb roast mum made every Sunday. Sweets were always made from scratch. Apples from backyard tree mum made our apple pie. Our Japanese blood plumbs mum made jam. Gee, we had a stack of fruit trees, mum made stacks of things. I remember a neighbour gave mum an Italian bolognaise recipe - omg, foreign food lol, we loved it, gradually the newer people from different countries came, we cooked it. I married had wonderful Greek and Italian neighbours, they would cook and bring food over even though I’d already cooked dinner lol. Yes huge variety of many cultures of food here in Aus. Oh I remember dad talking us to the Vic market on a Saturday to buy a huge box of vegetables when I was a child. And our treat - An American Donut. They have been there for decades as I’m now 70 🥴😥😱😂

[@katetoner3077]

There are over 200 languages spoken in Australia, and that translates into so many food choices it's unreal!!! Not only that, the quality is amazing. And we eat seasonally. That is, we eat what is in season, not stuff imported half way round the world. Stuff is imported, but not that much, because our food is good. Sure, there are specialties but we are pretty good here! People have a lot of pride in what they produce .

[@JenMaram63]

Australians do not eat seasonally any more. We grow our own, export a lot, and import to keep the stocks up year round. We once did. But not any more. In the cities most fruit and vegetables in some variety is available year round. Prices are high when off season.

[@bettyboop7426]

I am Italian migrant to Oz and whilst there are meat pies,good seafood&some indigenous food,Australian food generally reflects our multicultural country.Pate is liver based as Vietnam has French influences Thai food is a world of different to China and all food is yum in Thailand and Aussies loves it.Is it old video as prices seem quite good&thank goodness for no tipping culture just like Asia except for opportunistic ppl,cheers

[@nevillewelsh6393]

Melbourne is the multi cultural food capital of the world. You can get any type of food you want Born and breed in Melbourne but now live in Queensland. To me Melbourne is the best city in the world

[@steveheywood9428]

Remember we have around 200 nationalities living in Australia and Asia is quite close ..eg Singapore, Malaysia etc so we do get authentic Asian cooking.😅

[@jenniferharrison8915]

You can find the same foods in Sydney city - Haymarket, Chinatown and Darling Harbour - and Chatswood, at least! Street markets and Restaurants! I enjoy Lebanese and Turkish food, it's fresh and healthy - Falafel, Kebab, Gozleme! Vietnamese is the healthiest asian food! She is Thai, there are masses of Thai restaurants here - and everything else! 😋 Our best gourmet food is definitely in Tasmania! 💗

[@MsTtilly]

Sydney's in the chat! Can't help comparing themselves to Melbourne 😂😂😂😂

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@MsTtilly Hello! I was merely ensuring he knew these foods are available elsewhere too, the video was very limited and he's a long way away! Get over yourself!

[@MsTtilly]

@@jenniferharrison8915? I'm just referring to the pre-existing rivalry between the two cities. You're reading too much into it. 😂

[@MsTtilly]

Yeah, they're just Aussies, mate! 🇦🇺

[@ericafarrow667]

America had a huge influence in South Korea and Vietnam during those terrible years of war . They have a lot of cuisine and culture riding from that era. As well as French influenced food. YUMMY 😋

[@Lynnie_14]

Lamingtons, Fairy Bread & Pavlova 😂❤❤❤

[@Bellas1717]

Yes! And Bunnings snags, meat pies, sausage rolls, Vegemite…

[@Phatzo1000]

The Queen Vic markets are outdoor but have a roof, if that makes it clear as mud.

[@Jeni10]

Yes it’s under cover, so is the one in Sydney. Pate is made of liver, usually chicken and pork livers, steamed and puréed with some mild seasonings, originally from France.

[@EmbraceThePing]

... and it tastes sooo much better than it sounds.

[@kitkat8265]

Doner Kebab is thin sliced lamb with salad, slaw onions and chili and mint yogurt sauces. Shish kebab is grill cubes of chick or lamb with the chunky veggies on a skewer. There is also Kofte Kebab Minced lamb with mixed herbs made into cubes or balls. Much like the disc shaped hamburger. They do have loose mince dishes as well. Often served with pita bread. It is Turkeys version of a Burrito with different ingredients She is Taiwanese which is Chinese people living on the Island of Taiwan but are there own country. Not Thai from Thailand

[@michaelwebster8389]

I like to think these are Australian these days. We've become a very multicultural society - which has improved our food immeasurably. BTW: Pate is chicken liver pate. It's a tasty paste made from cooked chicken livers.

[@allangoodger969]

If you really want to be pedantic the Australian food would be Kangaroo, emu and goana with the native herbs fruits and seeds. But because the Australian population is so multicultural the food types reflect it.

[@MsTtilly]

HSP! Halal Snack Pack!! So good!!

[@qualitytraders5333]

Döner kebab. You'll find a lot of stalls in The Netherlands and Germany. It was introduced by Turkish migrant workers in the 60s. In The Netherlands we also have saté (or satay). Chicken or pork on skewers with peanut sauce. Originally from Indonesia and other SE Asian countries.

[@arconeagain]

Pate is made of liver. Banh Mi is practically everywhere in Melbourne, and has been around for a long time. I seemed one out last week when I had to go into town. We have many Thai restaurants, the usual Chinese, and Vietnamese.

[@7thlittleleopard7]

Australia doesn't tend to have much of our own dishes. Instead, because we're a very multicultural country, we, uh, "BORROW" other country's food and give it our own twist. Or just take it wholemeal. We don't care as long as it tastes good, tbh. What's yours is ours~ That said, meat pies are always a banger. Also, aussie burger (has beetroot and pineapple added).

[@GregDunne-zf2ep]

Our typical old Aussie diet was a sandwich for lunch and dinner was 3 or 4 vegetables with a piece of meat in the 60s 70s now with imagination we have so many different foods all the different foreigners that have moved over the last 60 years has changed our diets

[@AnneMorley-up1qv]

A traditional Australian food that is not so common these days unless you are a farm worker in the outback or maybe it’s a fun thing to cook on a camping trip, is ‘damper’. It’s a very thick kind of bread that is made from flour and salt and water and maybe butter too, if available. Cooked over a campfire and served with lashings of butter and/or Golden Syrup.

[@michaelwebster8389]

I think you're right about Turkey - but it's really middle eastern, and the Lebanese often have similar styles. The Italians too have similar bready toasted flat bread foods. The Ottoman empire obviously covered a lot of area, so the Turkish food may have spread far, and they absorbed a lot of foods from the empire.

[@Tigers2099]

She’s seems Australian to me.. as we are close to Asian countries a lot of our population have Australian ancestors Also alot of our foods are influenced by our closeness to Asian countries

[@raymondhardy8468]

Vietnam crepes not chinese. Vietnam was a french colony for a few hundred years, so french cruisine is heavy in their culture. French withdrew from vietnam , story short why vietnam war erupted

[@tesssnow9381]

Also those kebabs u talk of MUST try Charlie they are dam good like a shaved rotisserie meat of choice with salad and sauce of your choice often a garlic yoghurt and then they press the Turkish pita wrap in a jaffle iron to melt it yummmmm

[@ericafarrow667]

I am going to have prawns on a fresh bread roll with plenty of butter while watching the rugby league Grand Final. A few beers to wash it down with 👍

[@Reefsider-fq4sk]

She's an Aussie mate..

[@tesssnow9381]

Melbourne is like the hipster , art and food area they have food from every country and on every corner so not typical traditional australian food more like sold in Australia often made by people who come from the country it's from. Australian food ... cheese and Vegemite scrolls like a swirled bread roll with cheese and Vegemite cooked through it, kangaroo which not everyone eats but can be brought in grocery shops, sussages etc but we eat so many foods from other places ❤

[@Wandafulofit]

It was interesting to hear you say "I wonder if she's from Thailand", because I'm pretty sure she's from Australia (and Melbourne).... Maybe a better way of asking is "I wonder what her heritage is?" And then saying China and Thailand are pretty much the same? Yeah, Nah...... That's a very naive thing to say Not "having a go" at you mate... At least you are trying to learn about other cultures

[@kerrydwyer1879]

An arcade...Queen Victoria Building. Afghan kebabs are really yummy..Iranian too.. Lots near where I am now living. Also beautiful Thai food...Salads...

[@michaelharrison4102]

She clearly has Asian heritage but that accent is very Australian. Very typical of Australia now days. Particularly Melbourne

[@CeasefireNow2024]

Some traditional Aussie food from the very olden days would be roast beef, pork or chicken dinners. Beef, steak and mushroom, chicken and veggie pies. Fish and chips or seafood basket or seafood platter. Family barbecues lamb chops mashed potatoes peas and gravy. Theres a lot of food and recipes that are uniquely Aussie but I won't list them all. Heavy british influence becuase most aussie families that arent native were all british families who sailed to Australia.

[@stevenbalekic5683]

Adelaide's history grew with the Greek version "Yiros", there are not many places where it's called kebab and the sliced minced meat version is uncommon (which I'm thankful for because I don't really like it). Our yiros is usually filled with marinated vertical rotisserie lamb, chicken and occasionally pork or skewered and cooked over coals version that js usually bigger chunked and more juicy. Tomato, raw onion and tabouleh with garlic tzatziki and souvlaki sauce is my fave combination but sometimes tabouleh isn't available so I have no choice but to use lettuce.

[@Platypus333]

You're not gonna struggle adapting to Australia with food and accommodation if you visit.

[@melissasmith1144]

This is 100% Australian food. Melbourne is the most multicultural city in the world and we have the longest continually run Chinatown.

[@lyndaperussich5691]

Pate' is chicken or duck liver spread lol

[@Aaron_Cross]

She is definitely Aussie, you can tell by her accent and mannerisms.

[@ghas2429]

Hahahaha .. Your Drooling Charlie

[@bradmacoz]

Australians dont really have an Australian dish, we would be closer to english type foods, roast lamb, beef, meat pies, fish and chips etc. Australian adopt the best from were ever... We LOVE asian foods here, particularly in Melbourne! Lots of indian curries, Thai noddles, Chinese's and Vietnamese foods

[@kelly6491]

Pâté is a French terrine of meat and spices that’s been cooked and chilled to set into a rich, smooth spread or a rustic more textured spread. Best way to describe the taste is… imagine if meat were a butter. Usually made from chicken livers. Tho you’d never know it to taste. Sometimes duck or salmon but personally I think the traditional chicken one is the best. People tend to be turned off when they find out what it is but it’s one of those things you definitely have to give a shot because it’s awesome and not at all what you’re expecting. Fresh warm toast generously buttered then spread with pâté is magic comfort food at its best. Hope you come across it one day and get to give it a shot 😁 or maybe make it yourself, it’s pretty easy.

[@kitkat8265]

The place at two minutes fifty two with the glass roof are what we call in England and most likely Auz an arcade

[@davidfaorlin7620]

Pate is a French duck liver spread. Delicious!

[@bluejhaygrl]

British, Italian, Greek, Asian and somewhat German are what I would say make up the bulk of our cuisine today.

[@laurawallis7093]

I have been to France and assumed crepes were a sweet treat. Found out you can get savoury ones also. I had a ham and cheese one and it was really yummy. My favourite though is still just a crepe with lemon juice and sugar. Simple and soooo good.

[@Jeni10]

He was born here, his accent is 100% Aussie. Hers is very close, but she doesn’t give enough Asian accent for me to pick a country, not even close.

[@Some1inFNQ]

he sounds melbourne, she sounds sydney. to me, anyway.

[@benralphsmith6091]

I’m betting that other cuisines in Australia are accurate to the original food. Just from my experience of trying other cuisines. Not to mention we do have people from all around the world coming to and living in Australia cooking personally or professionally

[@sandyphipps9725]

You need to come to Australia Charlie, you would love it. xxx

[@AussieDaveok]

Thailand and China are like chalk and cheese

[@littleguysbigbusiness6109]

She is an aussie, maybe she came here when she was very young or is born here. She looks either vietnamese or philopino origin but shes an aussie!!!!

[@nicolecrichton9654]

Those donuts are next level yum!

[@garthwaters5756]

They both aussies lol 😂

[@alanbyrne2297]

She is Australian, from Australia.

[@adrianross8383]

It makes me realise how strong the Asian influences are on what Australians eat.

[@paulahort2315]

So many wonderful turkish immigrants in Australia and germany

[@ericafarrow667]

Pate’ is chicken liver. A meat pie with tomato sauce is the best Aussie street food.

[@unsub0007]

We don't really have distinctly "Australian" foods we have a mix of everything from the cultures that have settled here. A lot of it is heavily influenced by Asian and Mediterranean cuisine.

[@lyndaperussich5691]

I think she is obviously doing a video on Asian food you can buy in Melbourne

[@bline5891]

She sounds Aussie to me

[@arconeagain]

Here in Melbourne, we're one of the food capitals of the world... if you know where to go. Too many taking the piss these days, inflation without quality at the same time.

[@MarkJessop-hq2uo]

nothing better than a pork roll

[@blackie75]

There's really no need to drop the last R in the word Melbourne. We only do that because of our accent, so at least speaking for myself, I don't expect Americans or Irish people etc to pronounce the word the same way. That would be like us Aussies going to the United States and pronouncing the cities in an American accent, which would just be weird.

[@xxillicitxx]

Americans can say Mel-burn, so long as they don't say Mel-born

[@blackie75]

@@xxillicitxx Precisely

[@JenMaram63]

There is heaps of other takeaway to buy and enjoy that does not have an Asian influence. The old meat pie is not just your old footy pie anymore. Meat pies have nation wide competitions. Shame she did not feature more traditional foods that are widely eaten and sought out by Australians.

[@CarolGration]

I agree every country cooks their national food so much better than other countries Chinese etc.

[@mary-annedoon8317]

Australia is very close to asia thats why we have authentic asian foods from all over asia

[@charleemcara4639]

We all love kebabs 😂 thats your traditional drinking or hangover food.

[@larissahorne9991]

We tend to either eat authentic food from different cultures or something we're taken from another country adapted. I think the only truly Australian food would have to be our first nations' people's bush tucker. They'd probably cook a witchetty grub for you as a beginner than expect to eat a live one like they would. I think both you wish, Pate was just ordinary meat that's been ground up. It's liver with some spices added to it. I hate offal, it makes me feel sick just to look at it.

[@michaelwebster8389]

Taiwan is a largely Chinese country, Thailand not Chinese.

[@lyndaperussich5691]

You still get dinky dy Aussie Food too

[@JennyMurray-t4d]

Hi Charlie. Enjoy your reaction vlogs but why do you keep asking where she is from? She may have Asian heritage but it is obvious that she is very much Australian mate.

[@RickyisSwan]

You should already have learned that Aussies don't play by the rules. We screw with everything including food. If we see two different foods, we are likely to come up with a combination of some sort. 🦘

[@1964Rennie]

Thailand is nothing like China. All asian countries are unique.

[@Fingabang]

Brother, There are thousands of Doner Kabab joints in Australia. Most of them are trash.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

China and Thailand 2 separate countries separated by mynmar and laos, political systems, monarchy, currency, language and culture

[@Mezza-ld3bq]

Chicken souvalaki made at home ❤❤❤

[@lyndaperussich5691]

The glory of street food here is typically asian

[@sherrymackay3926]

Crepes! Delicious

[@bramba1953]

Bahn Mi is heaven. We eat food from all our migrant culture.

[@jacquimott386]

She’s Australian. Could be any sort of ethnic mix

[@julesmarwell8023]

Turkish food is up there with the best.....

[@Reefsider-fq4sk]

You can't beat a doner kabab at 3 a.m. on the way home! Surprised you aren't very familiar with the gazillion food choices available. Australia is very multi cultural society with most of the world's foods available, and being close to Asia we love authentic regional dishes too. Aussies are very into food, and coffee of course, the planet's best coffee culture. Come on down Charlie you need a little Aussie culture education.

[@tacitdionysus3220]

Great food clip. Re: some comments below. You need to know that other Australians have to tolerate constantly being told how "wonderful" and 'cultural' Melbourne people think they are. The rest of us just humour them and nod politely. They'll talk about somewhere with half a boulevard being the "The Paris end of Melbourne" - Funny how you never hear anyone talk about "the Melbourne end of Paris" - Just saying.

[@shaneedwards6704]

Korean food has a lot of American influences because of the Korean war

[@davidfaorlin7620]

I think youre referring to Taiwan & China. Not Tailand & China.

[@lyndaperussich5691]

Arabic.. Lebanese.. Turkish even Greek food all not much different

[@JoelGarcia-ml9jx]

HSP, just saying

[@PryceMortensen]

How u going Australian food is probably meat pies sausage rolls roast dinner hamburgers with beetroot and pineapple kangaroos emu crocodile seafood but all other foods where bought from settlers over the years from over the world with Aussie twist look up Aussie sushi is not like you have over there so we have multicultural food that been bought over them last couple off hundreds year and they’ve infused there food with owes so real-own food is from al around the world

[@lizmunro6881]

The American education system seems to ignore the rest of the world. I was born in png and have lived in all the Aussie east coast but I know so much more about the world than this guy

[@dougeek83]

Us Aussies don’t like Victorians

[@vtbn53]

Exactly, that's why we call them Mexicans

[@griff420blazer4]

Jealous much...

[@jenniferharrison8915]

True, rabble rousers with huge debts! 😩

[@MsTtilly]

Seriously? Jelly much? 😂😂😂

[@griff420blazer4]

@@MsTtilly must be from outer sydney..

[@GregDunne-zf2ep]

None of these dishes are true Australian foods