Indulkana lies four hours south of Alice Springs 45 kilometres north-west of Marla, the easternmost Aboriginal community in the Pitjantjatjara Lands. The community has about 300 residents with a school, a clinic, council buidling, TAFE and of course a community store.
The store is not particularly well layed out. A couple of aisles of ingredients. There are plenty of biscuits, a large amount of chocolate, some poor fruit and vegetable offerings and a series of essentials for bush living. But the Indulkana Store does offer a couple of highlights and these are the two varieties of pie.
The beef pie and the kangaroo pie are both delicious. Based on the Lovey's model of meat pie the Indulkana Store offers some flaky pastry, a large amount of beef stock and a few largish, soft chunks of meat. They are not in Melbourne's Best Pies, but a decent morning breakfast.
Other hot food is available. The chicken wings are fatty and decent, there are also chikos, dim sims and spring rolls. But avoid these and stick with the pies (and a chicken wing if you are desperate).
But remember, like everything else in the Pitjantjatjara Lands (and the desert as a whole mind you), these pies are reliant on the current proprietors remaining in the community. If they move, the pies disappear, and the Indulkana Store becomes another bush store to to drive straight past.
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