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Two Aussie kids, Ava and Kalani, give us their perspectives on life down under. Eight-year-old Ava, and Kalani, a nine-year-old boy, live in different Australian cities and have never met. Find out what Aussie kids do for fun and what school is like in the land of koalas and kangaroos.

Thursday, December 24, 2009
Kalani

Food--mmm!

Melbourne is a great place for food. It has millions of great places to eat, but it really narrows down to one person. My mum. She is the best cook.

If you want you can go out and get, good pizza, Thai food, Indian, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, African, French food, alright.You get the picture.

We have lots of good food because we have lots of people living here from lots of different countries. Recently I ate with our family friends from Bangladesh. I ate lots of curry it was very yum!

Photo: Kalani and Bangali friends
Photo: Two women



On TV there was a show called Masterchef which was a cooking competition. We loved that show so my family and friends made our own. We called it Masterchef Oxford Street.

Most nights we did a thing called mystery box where a box with ingredients were given to someone to see what they could cook up.

They didn't know what was going to be in it so they had to think on the spot and they only had a limited amount of time to cook it.

Whoever didn't cook was a judge at the time. At the end we ate the food and scored it.


I cooked a dessert.



And didn't go so well. My friend Deb rated me 4 out of 10 because she found a bug in her dessert.
Photo: Bowl of ice cream
A really popular food in Australia is Vegemite which is a salty spread like jam.  It's black. Everyone likes to eat it differently. Mum likes it on a cold piece of toast with butter.

My Uncle Kiron likes to mix it with honey while I don't like it at all (except for on Salada crackers) and as for Freddy he thinks Vegemite is a ninja chicken in disguise so he won't eat it...




2 Comments

a ninja chicken lol sorry thats so funny.....
lol,
chelly from canada B.C

mmmmmmmmmmmm

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