• XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Look I hate Australia like the best of us, but the thing is the food here is actually good.

    It’s arguably the best quality white person food in the anglosphere (low bar I know), because we just copied what worked from Italian, Greek, Vietnamese, Chinese and many more communities.

    Australian food is just copying another countries food and tweaking it and serving it in every café, restaurant or takeway.

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      -Flat White and Long Black (copy Italian coffee traditions).

      -Chicken Parma (copy Italian Parmigiana)

      -Dim Sims (copy Chinese dumplings, steal the name from Dim Sum)

      -Chick Katsu Sushi rolls (copy Japanese sushi rolls but put avocado and snitzel in it)

      -Burger with the lot (copy USA burger but add egg, beetroot and pineapple)

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        Short soup and long soup are awesome too (wonton and noodle Cantonese fusion soups respectively)

        Aussie cafe food is sick, loads of awesome fusion stuff. Just near me (halfway to bumfuck nowhere) I have caradmom spiced oat porridge, crispy eggplant burger with Korean sesame inspired ssuce and shit.

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        Banh mi on tiger bread (rather than baguette) and a snot block holleeeeee

        Smashed avo with feta and balsam drizzle hollleeeeeeeee

        Potato borek dipped in chilli sauce HOLLLEEEEEE

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        Dim Sims (copy Chinese dumplings, steal the name from Dim Sum)

        dim sim with an i?

        looking it up they’re like halfway between a shaomai and a jianbao? which i guess can be dim sum items, so it’s dim sum with an aus/nz accent. dim səm

        do they have vegan ones

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          No, specifically dim sim, rhymes with Jim. Dim sum I’d wager some people would think you’re mispronouncing dim sim, and others would understand it to be dim sum (which we generalise as ‘what you eat at yum cha’).

          Yes there are vegan ones but they wouldn’t be commonly sold at fast food stores. Dim sim are commonly found at fish and chip shops and are an accompaniment to that meal, or standalone snack. If you wanted vegan ones your best bet is finding frozen ones at the supermarket.