We visited South Melbourne Market at least twice during our stay in Melbourne. Best of all, it has a food hall where there's table and chairs for diners to enjoy their food and drinks bought from the various food shops. We also did our grocery shopping for meats like lamb cutlets and beef steak.
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| fresh seafood |
We became quite fond of Aptus Seafood. Kept going back for their lobsters and sashimi. Here's a look of what we ate from Aptus.
The scallops were kind of a gamble though. We bought two and one was sweet and the other was just bland. I had forgotten which type of oysters we had gotten but it was of a mid-range price. Plump and briny, and tasted best with a squeeze of lemon. The sea urchin was huge! Hahaa, it wasn't as funky as I'd thought it would be. Pretty nice but watch out for the some of those spiny stuffs that might break off.
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| scallops |
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| yummy oysters |
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| sea urchin |
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| sashimi grade tuna, salmon and king fish |
The sashimi of 3 types of fish was at about AUD60+. Averaging at about AUD2.50 per piece. Loved the sashimi. Fresh and naturally tasty even without soy sauce and wasabi.
I was shocked when we had lobsters on our first visit to this market. Lobsters for brunch? OK! I think it was about AUD47 per piece.
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| Mornay Bay Rock Lobster |
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| cheesy |
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| have a bite! |
We tried the grilled lobster with cheese and another time, we had one which was more like a lobster salad. If you're very fond of cheese, then the grilled cheese lobster had plenty. If you're a fan of potato salad, then the lobster salad would be the right choice. Both have plenty of meat but you could taste more of the lobster flavour in the salad version. The potato salad was very good too! Both ways, we enjoyed every bite.
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| Lobster salad |
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| food hall |
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| let's walk walk |
I loved walking at the outer market area to see the vegetables and fruits.
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| peppers and root vegetables |
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| i yam what i yam |
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| potatoes galore! |
The coffee from
Padre was pretty much to my liking. We got our magic from there. Thanks Hence for queuing for it!
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| magic |
But what is this mysterious magic coffee that exists in Melbourne? Magic coffee is made when steamed milk is added to a double ristretto, made from espresso. Normally served in a 5oz cup (160ml). In comparison, piccolo is 3 to 4oz (85 to 114ml).
At the moment, I don't think there's any cafe/coffee shops that serves magic in Singapore. If you know of any, do let me know. Thanks in advance!
Definitely felt more alive after having coffee.
Oh, there's a nice
Pie Shop here to satisfy our pie cravings.
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| Pie Shop |
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| Guinness Beef Pie |
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| yummy beef pie |
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| Chicken Pie |
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| inner view of chicken pie |
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| K is for... |
Hence asked me to guess what does the 'K' imprinted on the pie stands for. I didn't go with them to buy so could only taste some to guess.
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| hmmm |
Wow, this tasted even funkier than the sea urchin! Hahahaa. K stands for Kidney pie. Wookay, I wouldn't want to eat this again. Give me Guinness Beef Pie, anytime! The chicken pie was nice too but not my preference. The pie is about AUD10 for a one pax portion. There's family sized pies too.
Ivan said we must get the cannoli from Cannoleria. It was unforgettable for him.
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| Cannoleria |
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| one of each please |
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| pretty box of cannoli |
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| Sicilian |
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| Chocolate |
One thing to note is not to leave out the cannoli for too long. Enjoyed the crisp shell and the various fillings. Loved that it wasn't too sweet.
We were intrigued by a shop that sells dim sim. So, we had to get some to try to verify if all fried dim sim taste the same.
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| let's queue for some dim sim |
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| looks good |
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| sesame prawn toast @AUD4.20 |
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| tasty prawn toast |
The prawn toast was kind of pricey but it was surely tasty. Happy to report that the fried dim sim here was so much better than the other one that I had tried. Keke. Steamed one I didn't enjoy that much probably because it was already cold when I ate it.
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| pork dim sim (steamed) |
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| pork dim sim (fried) |
There are recycle bins around the market for us to dispose the empty containers etc. There's even special ones to dispose of coffee cups.
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| recycle bin |
South Melbourne Market
Address: 322-326 Coventry St, South Melbourne VIC 3205, Australia
Business Hours:
Closed on Mon, Tues, Thurs.
Sat, Sun, Wed: 8am–4pm
Fri: 8am–5pm
Aptus Seafood
Pie Shop
Padre Coffee
Cannoleria
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