Food & Wine Festival 2015: Australia

Austrailia was our 3rd stop on Monday afternoon and our 8th stop of the trip.

For most of our stops on Monday, we got our food, found a shaded place on the sidewalk, sat down to eat, and stayed for a minute or two for a bit of people-watching. People-watching in Disney World is like another attraction. You never know what kind of wonders you will see. Monday was a surprisingly tame day. Nobody was drunk by 5pm, nobody was yelling curse words at the top of their lungs, nobody was stumbling around like crazy... Apparently the decent people decided to finally show up.

In Australia we decided to try the grilled sweet and spicy bush berry shrimp with pineapple, pepper, onion, and snap peas. That decision really was a no-brainer because the other options were grilled lamb chop with mint pesto and potato crunchies (neither of us eat lamb) and lamington, which is yellow cake dipped in chocolate and shredded coconut (we didn't want anything sweet).

Our sweet and spicy bush berry shrimp was incredible. I kept saying "shrimp on the barbie" in a terrible Australian accent while eating it (and maybe for the remainder of the trip...).  I couldn't help it- the deliciousness of the shrimp just put me into a crazy state of mind! Just kidding. I'm just naturally crazy like that. But it was very good. And very spicy. It came with three pieces of shrimp which is lame if you're trying to split the dish. It's a hot mess trying to slice a piece of shrimp in half. But we successfully did it. I loved the sweet and spicy flavor combination. I also really loved that flavor combination on the pineapple pieces. It was surprisingly amazing.

If we had been drinking around the world, we could have tried some delicious Australian drinks. They had Coopers Brewer extra strong vintage ale, Chateau Tanunda Grand Barossa dry Riesling, Bulletin Place Unoaked Chardonnay, and Yangarra Estate Vineyard Shiraz. I don't really drink much wine or beer, but maybe one of these would have been worth the try!

Maybe some of these booths need to offer a nonalcoholic specialty drink! That would be a really awesome addition to the festival!