Food bloggers have been asking me to take them for a tour of my home town, Cabramatta. Well finally it’s going to happen. I’ve put together a unique tour just for foodies. The Cabra Crawl food tour for Sydney food bloggers includes:
- shopping: buy some of the freshest produce in Sydney
- Cabramatta landmarks: see some of Sydney’s most famous landmarks
- food: a progressive eating tour that takes in 5 different food places in Cabramatta, showcasing the best in Vietnamese food. Some food will be familiar, others will be new…
Plus, you’ll get a behind the scene tour of Cabramatta and meet some of the people responsible for the best Vietnamese food in Sydney.
About Cabramatta
A suburb that is south west of Sydney, Cabramatta. Here, almost one in three were born in Vietnam, the largest concentration of Vietnamese born residents in Australia. Once with a troubled past, Cabramatta and the community have transformed the suburb into one of Sydney’s top food capitals.
Last month, the Sydney Morning Herald’s Everyday Eats 2012 crowned John Street, Cabramatta as Sydney’s Favourite Eat Street.
Cabra Crawl for Sydney food Bloggers
Saturday, 31 March 1pm – 4pm
It’s free
With thanks to noodlies and Fairfield City Council, the entire Cabra Crawl program is free, including the food I’ve personally selected to showcase the best of Vietnamese food.
Limited places
To keep it intimate, there will only be a limited number of places.
So you want to come?
Any food blogger can register, the only condition is that you must have a food related blog or micro-blog and the most recent post should be no more than 30 days old.
Register by sharing with us why you would like to go on the Cabra Crawl (no more than 50 words please). Please make sure you enter your name, email and blog address in the fields provided. I’ll make one of my usual subjective decisions and select the attendees.
Registrations close Sunday 25 March, 8pm. I will contact successful applicants via email by Monday 26th, noon.
Good luck and I look forward to sharing a wonderful food excursion with you. Thang 🙂
Noodlies Cabra Crawl is supported by:
- Fairfield City Council (principal sponsor)
- Feast Magazine
- Royal Umbrella Rice
- Lenovo
CONGRATULATIONS to the food bloggers going on the Cabra Crawl!
Due to the overwhelming number of responses to the Cabra Crawl tour for Sydney Food Bloggers, I’ve had to do a random draw.
I’m only selecting 6 bloggers to join me and a couple of mystery guests (one is a media personality and the other is the blogger that gave me the idea). The six lucky bloggers are:
- Daniel, Nanika Nomimashoo
- Anna, Adobo Down Under
- Melinda, The Pickled Cumquat
- Rafael, Ramen Raff
- Oni, Fork It
- Veronica, From across the kitchen table
Thanks everyone for entering and congratulations to the lucky six!
PS: if you haven’t already, please nominate your favourite Vietnamese pork roll shop in Sydney, I’m doing a search for the best roll in town, nominate.
Please note: photos are used to give you a feel for the food on the day, we may or may not be having those specific dishes.
I’m been fascinated with Cabramatta since I first visted the area during a moon festival. The tour sounds like a fantastic way to get better acquainted with their food & culture, something that I’d really love to be a part of.
Am I the first one?
This is how excited I am about this food tour. After I had a suggestion of what to come in my first trip out to Cabramatta a couple of weeks ago, I can’t get enough of it. I want to get back for more desserts and take away from Ngoc Duc. I want more Banh mi thit! I want PHO! Actually, can I take Cabramatta back to Surry Hills with me? Thanks! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoooo!!
p.s Close to my birthday as well.. birthday pressie??
actually yes, you were the first registration Penny, by a whisker!
Ooops no, actually I think Simon might have just beaten you to it!
I would love to experience this amazing opportunity. I am of Maltese background and married into a Vietnamese family and they are always making amazing dishes & teaching me. I would like to learn more about the food side and impress my mother and father in law!
Adam has more room for more food than most, and needs to scope out his competition’s Pappa Roti eating skills 🙂
Remind me to tell you later Adam, looks like I’m MC’ing an eating competition in Cabra for one of their big festivals.. will let you know!
Thang! I love Vietnamese food and a food tour of Cabramatta shall be the highlight of my love for the culture and food! Pretty please include me! I’ll be your assistant for the day! 😀
I’ve been wanting to explore Cabramatta’s food culture since discovering vietnamese cusinie. Cabra’s fresh and vibrant food scene has really captured my attension and have since viewed this suburb as a real foodie heaven. I can’t wait to experience and learn something I’ve never known about a local suburb! 😀
Hi Thang
Now you’re talking – you know how much I will enjoy this! Sign me up. We were just talking about #VietTUB2 and inviting YOU – how wonderful. Your readers might enjoy my photo highlights from our tweetup which can you believe is almost a year ago now. http://hollingsworth.posterous.com/cabramatta-tweetup-brunch-at-pho-minh-viettub
Best to you my friend,
Tony
Yes, that was a hoot, heh? I remember it well mate.
I’ve been to Cabramatta but I feel I haven’t even touched the surface of what it truly has to offer. This includes its food, history, culture and people. I’m new to the blogging game and to swap ideas with fellow bloggers, whilst tasting some fantastic dishes would be incredible.
The idea of a food Cabbra tour is smart. The suburb is filled with great food but I never know which places are the best to try because there are just so many! Would love to really see n try the food that Cabbra has to show off!
Thanks for DMing me 🙂
Would love to come along because my knowledge of Vietnamese food is near zilch (I know pho, pork rolls and summer rolls) and the only time I’ve ever been to Cabra is dinner at Iron Chef! Ashamedly I’ve always thought of Cabra as a scary place but thankfully after watching Once upon a time in Cabramatta it has really opened my eyes to the change it has undergone. Would be good to be out of my comfort zone and experience a place that’s culturally enriching.
Pick me xx ^^
The John Street food strip has always been one of my favourite places in Sydney. It was love at first taste of Vietnamese cuisine for me and I would love to explore it’s awesomeness further. I’m an expert “food crawler”.
Having grown up in the cabramatta area my whole life, there’s still too much out there I’ve yet to see. Me, being a local, would just be like any other out there who adores Cabramatta for what the place offers – diversity, fashion, culture and particularly for the food. I can also try and suggest some of the places people should go and try. With a vietnamese background there seems to be no other city that can produce food like cabramatta does (apart from home ;P).
Thang, any foodie knows Cabra is THE place to find the best Pho in the country. I miss Cabra. Bun Bo huay serves a mean spicy Pho. Miss it so much. Nothing compares to it. Would love to be part of your foodie tour. Pick me pick!! ( both hands in the air) =)
With Pho Master Thang as foodie guide that’s a definite yes please from me if I’m lucky enough to be selected because I know it’ll be a fantastic experience to learn more about Cabramatta and Vietnamese cuisine from an expert.
What an exciting idea having the food tour of Cabramatta. I have always wanted to experience & learn more about the food culture there. What a fantastic opportunity. Hoping to be selected for the Food Tour Day. Keep up the great work with Noodlies.
I would love to experience this amazing opportunity. I am of Maltese background and married into a Vietnamese family and they are always making amazing dishes & teaching me. I would like to learn more about the food side and impress my mother and father in law! (I resubmitted as my website was incorrect, typo on my end!)
Sure, no worries Melinda 🙂
I would *love* to come on this tour because I’ve only been to Cabra a few times and I love (what I know of) Vitenamese food and culture.
This is the kind of food I’m interested in eating and knowing more about – the kind that’s based on home cooking and street food. I am fascinated by the way a cuisine is adapted and changed depending on its context, and how many variations there can be in the way you can prepare one dish. Sitting down to a meal is a universal experience and it’s why I love to blog about food.
I hope your ‘usual subjective decisions’ include me in your tour!
Cheers,
Lau
Really sorry Thang I only just read the bit about the 50 word limit! Mine was more like 100, I got a tad too excited. I can rewrite if you like.
ha, ha.. no it’s fine darling.
I would like to go on this tour to get a better idea on what makes Cabramatta the culinary city it is today such as checking out the hidden secrets and local favourites. And I am sure there are more restaurants in Cabramatta that I haven’t heard of yet!
Thanks & congrats on such a great initiative! I’d love to come along because I’ve never been to Cabramatta. I’ve been dying to do so coz I’ve heard so much great things about the food there, as well as being intrigued after watching bits of the SBS program ‘Once upon a time’ last december. I know Vietnamese cuisine is definitely more than just pho and bahn mi, which is exactly why I’d like to find out more on this unique tour. PLEASE CHOOSE ME!
Ever since I saw you speak at the Surry Hills library last year (late night library series) I’ve wanted to get to Cabramatta to try the Vietnamese food you spoke so passionately about. I promise to enjoy the hell out of the day, take loads of photos and spread the good word about Cabramatta afterwards. Fingers crossed!
Even thought I’m not of Vietnamese decent, Vietnamese food and culture has always been fascinating! The sights, sounds, tastes, colours – absolutely amazing! The food is just marvelous, I would love to experience more of Cabramatta and in essence, more of Vietnam!
The Once Upon A Time show about Cabra was really moving and eye opening. I’ve been to Cabra once before, but I’d love to come back having watched the show to see it through new eyes. And hopefully to taste something new as well!
Great to meet you last night
I would adore to be included in this Thang. Adore Vietnamese food and dabble, but no expert by far. I have been to Cabra a few times but I want and need to know more. Loving how Cabramatta/Fairfield Council is opening it’s arms for foodies to explore and learn.
I would LOOOVE to go on this tour…. I’m a food fan, but I’m not a blogger!! Maybe next time, you could do one for folks like me!!??
It’ll be a great afternoon.
Cabramatta’s a place that I have been to but have always felt that I haven’t really discovered. I want to FEEL its people, SEE its sights, EXPLORE and LEARN about its culture, EXPERIENCE its vibe, TASTE its food and happily SHARE all these in my young blog with your help.