Or, as we say in English, “Kangaroo red curry stir-fry is very yummy!” And it is. Kangaroo goes so well with curry you’d almost think they were Thai beasts to begin with.
The Marrickville Organic Food Market provided both the kangaroo rump and most of the vegetables this morning — snow peas, capsicum, Swiss brown mushrooms and green pepper.
The Chinese greengrocer told us that kangaroo meat smells too strongly. She feeds it to her dogs. She has no idea what she’s missing. Still, her fresh vegetables are one of the bonuses of the Markets, as are the fresh steamed dumplings from Chinese Dim Sum King. The King will do your catering, too: chinese_dim_sum@hotmail.com or 0411 456 750.
Now I’m wondering whether I should get ’Pong to write up the recipe. Maybe it should stay our secret.
The Chinese greengrocer told us that kangaroo meat smells too strongly. She feeds it to her dogs.
Oh that might explain the gamey tasting “sweet and sour pork” at the Marrickville Chinese takeaway…
@Snarky Platypus: Oh dear, that’s like my line on the weekend, when we saw that bloke with his two dogs waiting for someone outside a Chinese takeaway: “Don’t stand around there with your dogs too long, mate. You never know what’ll happen to them.” Ho ho.
It seems the Marrickville market has become the village well for my community — I wasn’t there this week though — see you there next week maybe, for your chance to meet up with various old friends! And the hot tip: if the lines for coffee are too long — the newsagent around the corner does good coffee too.
I could be wrong , but isn’t it only in the last few years that kangaroo meat for human consumption was available outside SA?
(I remember seeing an episode of “Floyd In Oz” where he was beamoaning said circumstances)
Kangaroo for human consumption has been available for at least a decade outside of SA. I’m not sure if it’s longer as 10 years is the duration I’ve not been in SA for!
@Quatrefoil: I can live without the coffee there. It seems strange to go to such a rural-feeling market to drink barrista-made coffee from a branded disposable cup. I’m meant to be giving up coffee anyway. Instead, we had the West African ginger beer — more like a cold ginger tea, very spicy!
@Snif and @Benn Glazier: In my early visits to Sydney I remember lamenting the lake of roo meat.
A Google search for the sophisticated search terms “when did kangaroo mean become available for human consumption in new south wales” reveals an awful lot of sites by people wanting to ban the kangaroo industry, some with detailed histories. However flipping the page we discover that the magic year was 1992, with the passing of the Meat Industry (Game Meat) Amendment Bill.
I also found the website of the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia, with yummy-looking recipes. ผัดพริà¸à¹à¸à¸‡à¸ˆà¸´à¸‡à¹‚จ้à¸à¸£à¹ˆà¸à¸¢à¸¡à¸²à¸à¹†!
Kangaroo also goes well with Indian flavours: ‘roo masala is prety good eatin’.
Aha, Wikipedia reveals Floyd On Oz was made in 1991 – perhaps someone with influence saw it.
In the late 80s or early 90s there was a restaurant in Adelaide called “Thai Me Kangaroo Down”
It was in Gilles St in the old Glo-Bos
Despite the name it was fantastic!
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bout the only meat that we buy at Coles these days is roo…
come on – u gotta share the recipe now! Not necessarily with everybody on the interweb, but surely u can email it to me???
Or is there a facebook recipe sharing app??