A rebranded stall at the Alice Springs Markets, Chilean and Vietnamese Fusion is one of the culinary higlights of Alice Springs, quickly developing a reputation for great, healthy food at moderate prices - the key recipe for foodie succcess.
Before it was known as Chilean and Vietnamese Fusion, Gloria's Chilean stall created the Alice Springs market highlight, the vegetarian empanada. Often ordering four or five at a time, these deep fried delights are perfect on a freezing desert Sunday morning. The mock meats in the empanada are delicious and also a great source of knowledge to one-up an unknowing friend.
The stall also served Chilean cakes which offer various amounts of dulce de leche with biscuit on the side.
The gang at Chilean and Vietnamese Fusion only cook vegetarian food Buddhist style, that is, without:
1. Garlic
2. Onion
3. Lag Kiow
4. Chinese Chive
5. Leek
Internet debate rages as to the virtues of this, but there ought to be no complaints when the cooking is this good.
Chilean and Vietnamese Fusion serves these old favourites but has added phở and chai to the menu. The phở is vegetarian, so there is are beef bones, flank steaks or ox tails. Instead there is soy bean paste and a devilish combination of herbs.
The chai is excellent.
So visit the Alice Springs Market on a Sunday morning for chai, empanadas, phở and then Chilean cakes.
By the way, the Vietnamese word "phở" is properly pronounced with a falling-rising tone, as if asking a question. Its final vowel is not a long "o," but instead rhymes (in English) with the "u" in the English word "but". The "ph" is pronounced as an "f."
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