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If you’ve never had an Australian meat pie, then you’ve effectively never been to ‘Straya. While the area around my hotel is kind of dead, there’s a ray of hope in the form of Adamstown Hot Bread Shop, which bakes up fabulously fresh pies, pastries, sausage rolls and loaves of bread on the daily.
Their traditional Aussie meat pie (A$2.40) might be on the salty side, but there’s no disputing its heartiness. A thick, salty gravy is burdened down with an avalanche of minced meat and thinly sliced onions, and it’s all somehow contained within a beautifully brown and flaky pastry casing.
It’s so awesomely Australian that once the meat pie is fully consumed, you will get an insatiable urge to pounce upon the nearest croc while yelling “Crikey!”
