Adelaide Eats 2

We went to a Korean food festival where I seized these sweet potato noodles. They were delicious: mildly flavoured with strips of veggies, kombu and shiitake mushrooms. If I could get this near me I'd eat it all the time - it was brilliant:

I made kimchi pancakes but forgot to get a pic of the finished product so here's the batter. It's super simple: kimchi, spring onion, salt, flour, water (or kimchi juice if you like spice). Chop the first two up fine and mix until you get this consistency, then fry. Tasty stuff.

Ended up horribly, horribly sick with a stomach bug on the second day so my dad made Dad Soup: a hearty veggie-packed thing that's so thick you can almost stand a spoon up in it. Crusty bread with garlic, chives and parsley from the garden and some good olive oil - if you don't have vegan butter to make garlic bread this is a pretty good substitute:

My favourite news headline from the trip: if this doesn't personify the Aussie spirit I don't know what does!

We went for a wander up the Barossa Valley - it's beautiful, but mostly a place to go if you like a) Maggie Beer or b) wine.

But I stumbled into a cafe somewhere along the way and ended up with the best vegan brownie of my life, you guys. Dense, biscuity brownie with generous chunks of hazelnut and dark chocolate throughout it. IT WAS AMAZING:

Went to Pure Vegetarian for the sweet and sour gluten. It's so weirdly addictive. The noodles are just okay but I wish I knew what the gluten was / how they prep it - it's delicious:

Stopped by Bliss Organic and came out with raw Ferrero Rocher and Bounty balls. They were fairly nice - the Bounty had a bit too much cashew in it, which was a bit like eating a cheesecake ball (which is not a bad thing, but a bit suss when you're expecting coconut).

And last... THIS PLACE. Holy shit, you guys. These below treats came from Al Mina Mediterranean Patisserie and they were incredible. Middle Eastern sweets (including the best baklava I've ever tasted) and raw lemon pistachio and peanut crunch cake (I'm assuming raw anyway - lemon definitely was). 

These were seriously some of the best cheesecakes I've had in five years of veganism. The lemon and pistachio worked perfectly and the peanut crunch blew my mind; peanutty without being pasty, and the crust was almost a toffee crunch. I have no idea what it was but it was incredible. Apparently they normally have an entire cooler of vegan things, but they were down one so my only options were pastries or cheesecake (as if that's a bad thing). 

These were so good I went back the next day and grabbed the two same, plus a berry-choc cake and a salted caramel one to take home with me. (They were equally amazing.) The man behind the counter was incredibly nice about explaining the vegan options and seemed pretty tickled that I came back twice; I wish they were in Melbourne - the prices are great and the food was amazing! Raw cakes are $4.50 for the below size and $2.50 for the smalls. So jealous of Adelaide folks for having this place. So very jealous.