Queen Victoria Market

A beautiful Sunday to visit the iconic Queen Victoria Market, more so for the food then the shopping. It's been a while since I've stepped foot here, and OMG its popularity and food varieties have grown dramatically, I loved it!!! You may not know but I've had 4 wisdoms removed a week ago, so my cravings were satisfied today :)

this guy is making the Devil's Chicken - sweet, sour, spicy, crunchy with beautiful veggies

Roti and Beef Curry, my friends loved this

 The best Sri - Lankan/ Indian Chicken Curry I've had - it's called the Devils Chicken $12

Meanwhile at the Great Australian BBQ - Taste of Australia

Sorry to say this, but everyone on my table who tried this Kangaroo Meat Burger did not enjoy it one bit, it was bland, flavourless, sauce was too and the bun itself was soft and powdery. 

This Chicken wing salad unfortunately was not so good, chicken was bland and the salad was too sour.

Awesomely tasting chilled Cannoli - the cream was fortunately just right, I've always disliked the overly sweet ones. Thumbs up from me and my friends

Chooh La La (the original French praline) - these warmly toasted caramelised macadamias were delicious, the medium packet was $15 and smaller was $10, the guys who served us were very friendly and just wanted us to try everything, it was like all you can try before you buy. hehehehhe

 You could hear these guys from a mile away, it was soothing music so my ears were in a happy place.

Can you guess what this line is for? the ATM! it was ridiculously long, all ATMs on both corners were packed with people. My recommendation before coming to Victoria Market would be have some cash in your pocket as some stalls and shops only accepts CASH.

As for thirst, we had freshly squeezed lemonade (this was good) and the usual soft drinks.

Prahran Maket

Didn't realise Prahran Market has been around for 150 yrs, I only stumbled upon it while looking for a joint to brunch. It's very similar to Vic Market and South Melbourne Market. It's just more high end, with their extra special organic variety and price, poultry, fish and pre made meals. 
They offer a variety of food and drinks here, this is what we tried:

Anatolia Gozleme Kitchen is a place to find some authentic Turkish hand made bread known as "Gozleme". We tried their "lamb and spinach borek" ($5) and thought the bread was pretty good but the filling wasn't so special. Overall this was just bland and boring, I thought some sauce would go down well with this but the lady didn't recommend any. Again maybe I'm not use to eating Turkish food, so this is just my personal thoughts on this dish, maybe their other variety would have tasted much better. 

Mr Bratwurst makes the best hot dogs!!! I really loved it, we had the spicy hungarian beef sausage with extra grilled onion and cheese. It was $7.50, but with the extras we paid $8.50, it was worth it. 

You see that orange drink is from the stall next to this place, it was carrot, ginger and orange, made for detoxing, tasted weird but drinkable ($6, I don't recommend if you hate ginger).

 

The mussel pot has got some awesome reviews, but on the day we had these spicy mussels with bread ($10! yep great price for some hot mussels) the sauce that it was cooked in was very salty, maybe my palate isn't into salty food, but seriously they were very salty that day, hopefully when we try them next time it'll be better. 

 This guy has won some awards for selling mushrooms, his variety is vast, so if you are a mushroom fan, give him a visit, I'm sure you'll find something you like