Sprawling Sydney is home to many diverse suburban pockets where specific cultural communities thrive. Food plays a big part in these hubs – a stroll through the grocers, butchers, bakeries and family run restaurants in each area reflect the residents that live nearby, and evokes the sights, smells and sounds of Korea, Vietnam, Turkey, Greece, China, Italy and more. Here’s where to go to find traditional food from a variety of cultures.
Vietnamese – Cabramatta
Cabramatta in south-western Sydney acts as a centre for Sydney’s Vietnamese population, many of which relocated here in the 1980s. John Street – the main thoroughfare – is lined with bakeries selling banh mi (hot white rolls stuffed with roast pork and pickles), colourful grocers stocked with durian, green banana branches and coconut sweets and fluorescent red butchers strung with burnished ducks and whole pork bellies.
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