Bruce Brown, Tablelands Honey
FOOD TRAIL
Foxwood Farm pies, Running Stream
Net gains: Archvale Trout Farm WORDS STEPHANIE CLIFFORD-SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY JEREMY SIMONS
Taste drive
Mount Victoria General Store & Newsagency, post office and sushi bar
NEW SOUTH WALES
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● Mudgee
The road from the Blue Mountains’ most westerly town, Mount Victoria, to Mudgee in the heart of explorer country, is full of culinary surprises. Trout, sushi, goat’s cheese, herbs, honey and olives all wait to sate travellers in quest of tempting tastes.
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Sydney ✪ Kadisha Herb Farm, Capertree
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HINK ABOUT FOOD IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS and what springs to mind? Warming soups. Toasted chestnuts. Devonshire teas. Sushi? Probably not. Burmese-born Ronnie Kong offers sushi handmade daily in Mount Victoria. He learned his technique and a reverence for quality ingredients from Japanese chefs in America, where he ran a small chain of sushi bars. Kong buys his fish from Sydney, carefully freezes his supplies – which have been dry-filleted – and prepares a range of salmon, tuna and vegetarian pieces for sale from a spot in the chilled counter. Kong is keen to explain the correct way of eating sushi and urges customers to mix their wasabi with soy before applying it. His boxes also include a neat pile of sweet pickled ginger.
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MOUNT VICTORIA GENERAL STORE & NEWSAGENCY 109 Great Western Highway, Mount Victoria. (02) 4787 1231. Mon-Fri 6am-6pm; Sat-Sun and public holidays 6am-5pm.
The Olive Nest, Mudgee
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