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Best Cuisines and Cocktails of Gold Coast Australia

Coconut Prawns

Coconut prawns with the mayonnaise curry sauce are one of the most attractive cuisines you find on the Gold Coast. You can find it in almost all the restaurants here. The chefs deep fry the prawns before garnishing them with fresh and tasty coconut. Lime, cucumber, and green pepper chillies are the best add-ons for the garnishing. Taste it with sauce and you can experience heaven on earth.  

Caramel Doughnuts

Gold Coast is famous for the caramel doughnuts that are big, beautiful, tasty and yummy in delight. Your family will love the soft and crispy feelings. You will relish the juices as you bite through the layers. It is the best experience for your taste buds if you happen to be a lover of sweets. Gold Coast is filled with hundreds of doughnut varieties which are often injected with caramel, chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and the other flavours.

Aboriginal Cuisine

Smoked Kangaroo:  it is a special cuisine of the Gold Coast. The other key ingredients are bush tomato, lemon myrtle, orange zest, spices, salt, and rosemary. You may also add puree and garnish the smoked and sliced kangaroo meat with chips. The restaurants on the Gold Coast can also prepare the cuisine in plenty of different ways.

Tomato Scones: It is a veggie made of bush tomato, milk, butter, flour, and baking powder. It is the most favoured dish for the morning breakfast with bread.

Smoked-Fish:  Sea and river fish are the best foods you can get on the Gold Coast beaches and the city zone. Modern restaurants use ovens and electric grills for smoking the fish. Then they add spices and veggies to add as garnishing elements. You can also find them dipped in sauces and puree with deep frying after smoking.

When you enter the villages around the Springbrook national park, you will get to taste the original taste of the Aboriginal cuisine. Smoking on the traditional charcoal grills adds taste and aroma to the fish.

Finger-Lime: The recipe is a combination of finger lime, oyster, spices, and veggies. The best time to taste them is with the cocktails.

Gold Coast Cocktails  

TIKI Punch is one of the most cherished cocktails on the Gold Coast. Though it is originally from Mexico, the local bars have added their own mixing techniques to make it an Australian product of the Gold Coast. You can find apple martini, colada, roulette and the other types of the Gold Coast zone.

The combination of rum, liqueur, beer, and vodka, along with gin makes the most exciting cocktail on the Gold Coast. The bars within the Surfers’ paradise and the Gold Coast City are famous for plenty of other cocktail combinations.