Food purchasing behaviour research - Indian participants

Indian people invited to participate in research about food purchasing behaviour. We are looking for participants of Indian ancestry to attend 90 minutes or 2-hour discussion groups. After completing the discussion, participants will be paid $90 or $120 to thank them for their time. Detail at below:-   

Topic: Food purchase behaviour

For participants from Sydney - Location: Parramatta, face-to-face, $120

G3- Female group (with children) - 9 Aug 2022, TUE, 6:30-8:30pm

For participants from Melbourne - Online, $90

G6- Female group (without children) - 10 Aug 2022, WED, 6-7:30pm

G4- Male group (with children) - 9 Aug 2022, TUE, 6-7:30 pm;

Participants from any state - Online, $90

G5 - Male group (with children, newly settled in Australia)10 Aug 2022, WED, 6-7:30pm

If you are interested, please email your contact detail, age, gender and postcode to admin(at)multiculture.com.au

Thank you, Italian readers!

Our book, Chopsticks culture: Your Photo Guide to exploring Chinese cuisine, has just become the No.3 best selling English travel ebook and No.4 best selling English educational ebook on Amazon Italy. It is also a smartphone app.

- Bestseller in Viaggi

- Bestseller in Educazione


Thank you! Grazie!

Best-selling Chinese Travel Books

Woohoot! Our book, Chopsticks Culture: Your Photo Guide to Exploring Chinese Cuisine (Kindle version), has climbed up to No. 28 best-seller in multicultural education and No. 38 best-seller in Chinese travel last week. Thank you again, American readers.

Thank you, Germany and USA!

Our smartphone app, Chopsticks Culture: Your Photo Guide to Exploring Chinese Cuisine, is available on Amazon as well.

The handy photo guide to exploring Chinese cuisine became the No.4 best-selling China travel book on Amazon Germany last week, right behind Lonely Planet's Hong Kong and Macau Guide.

On Amazon USA, it reached No.62 best-selling multicultural education book and No.74 best-selling China travel book.

Thank you, Germany and USA!

Chopsticks Culture available in Kindle

Our iPhone, iPad and iTouch app "Chopsticks Culture: Your Photo Guide to Exploring Chinese Cuisine" is also available in Kindle. Below is the description:

Chopsticks Culture: Your Photo Guide to Exploring Chinese Cuisine, is a complementary guide to the smartphone app of the same name. It can be used alone.

The app is a cool, flashy and boisterous program that will remind you of a trip to Chinatown. What is its primary use? Challenge your friends in a game and see who can match a mouth-watering Chinese dish with its name in English, Chinese and phonetics.

If that’s too simple for your taste or your liking, try the app’s main use: master the way of ordering Chinese dishes in Cantonese or Mandarin with the help of our adorable Madam Chu and cool Master Zhao.

Or you can simply abandon the educational aspect and let the app show the waiter what you want to order.

In this maiden creation by our multi-award-winning cultural team, we promise you authentic Chinese food only. The app will help you stay away from coffee and hot dogs, for they are not listed!

In developer's lingo the app has around 100 photos of Chinese food, corresponding English simplified and traditional Chinese names in phonetic spelling, and sound files. The game includes three levels and a top scoreboard.

In this Kindle version, the sound and game modules are not available. But it’s still a great handy photo guide for learning to order Chinese food, or showing the waiters what you want to eat.

The book is arranged in this order:
1. Photo of dish
2. English name
3. Name of the dish in traditional Chinese and Cantonese phonetic spelling
4. Name of the dish in simplified Chinese and Mandarin phonetic spelling

For the smartphone app, go to the iTunes store.

To buy the Kindle version, go to the Amazon website.

Happy learning and eating!

Lamb Kofta

Learning about other cultures doesn't need translation if you can eat the "lesson." Here's a tasty recipe for you for Lamb Kofta, which is eaten in numerous countries.

Lamb Kofta

Ingredients
500 g minced lamb
1 finely chopped onion
1 egg
1 cup toasted bread crumbs

Seasoning
1 / 4 cup pork butter
2 tbs chopped parsley
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp chili powder
2 tsp turmeric
1 tsp ground allspice

Method
1. Blend the minced lamb, onion, egg, bread crumbs and seasoning well.
2. Shape the minced lamb into sausage shape along a skewer.
3. Broil in the oven, or cook over a grill.

Tofu San Choy Bow (lettuce wraps)

Now a delicious dish from one of the largest ethnic communities in Australia...

San Choy Bow

Ingredients
3 finely chopped onions
2 tsp grated ginger
200 g firm bean curd (tofu)
1/3 cup chopped water chestnuts
2 tbsp chopped bamboo shoots
1/2 stick of finely chopped celery
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1/2 tbsp oyster sauce
18 lettuce leaves

Method
1. Fry onion and ginger in pan, and cook over low heat until they are soft.
2. Add water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, and celery, and cook for two minutes.
3. Gently fold through chopped bean curd.
4. Stir in sauces, and cook until the mixture has reduced.
5. Spoon the filling into leaves to serve.

Seafood Paella

Seafood Paella

Ingredients
800 g of long grain Valencia rice
2 handfuls of clams
2 handfuls of mussels
8 whole squid
2 handfuls of large cleaned prawn
1 diced green capsicum
1 diced red capsicum
1 onion
1 tbsp saffron

Method
1. Bring a large stock pot of water to boil. Add salt, clams and mussels, and boil for 5 minutes.

2. Cut the squid into rings and add to the stock pot. Add the prawn.

3. Simmer for another 10 minutes or until the mussels and clams have opened. Strain into a bowl and set aside.

4. Add the saffron to the stock and stir until it changes colour.

5. Sautee the capsicums and onion in a large fry pan with some olive oil. Season with salt.

6. Turn the heat up to medium-high and put in the stock until 1/2 way up the side of the pan.

7. Then add the rice, little by little, until just barely covered with stock.

8. Turn the heat down to a medium-low, for 20 minutes or until the rice is cooked.

9. Put cooked seafood in at the end.

Spicy Beef and Pork Noodles

Spicy Beef and Pork Noodles

Ingredients
450 g Vietnamese ham
6 stalks of crushed and sliced lemongrass
100 g boneless sirloin
100 g boneless pork loin
450 g Vietnamese rice noodles>

Seasoning
2 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp chili paste
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp sea salt
2 tsp shrimp paste
1 tsp black pepper

Method
1. Add ham and lemongrass to boiling water.

2. Reduce heat and simmer for 1.5 hours.

3. Skim off any fat and strain the broth.

4. Stir the shrimp paste in 1/4 cup of cold water and set aside.

5. Add the shrimp paste solution and seasoning to the sirloin and pork loin.

6. Simmer the broth with the meat for 10-15 minutes or until the meat is cooked.

7. Slice the meat into small pieces to serve with cooked noodles. Add bean sprouts, herbs, chili or lime juice if desired.

Panna cotta with raspberry sauce

Australia's multicultural communities have added a lot of spice to our food scenes. Here is a recipe from one of our oldest ethnic communities, the Italian Australians.

Panna cotta with raspberry sauce

Ingredients
For the panna cotta
3 gelatin leaves
250 ml milk
250 ml double cream
1 vanilla pod
25 g sugar

For the sauce
175 g sugar
175 ml water

Cherry liqueur
350 g raspberries

Method
To make the panna cotta:
1. Soak the gelatin in cold water until soft.
2. Simmer the milk, cream, sugar, vanilla pod and seeds. Then remove the vanilla pod.
3. Add the gelatin (with water squeezed out) to the pan. Take off the heat and stir until the gelatin has dissolved.
4. Pour the mixture into four cups and leave to cool. Put into the refrigerator for at least an hour or until set.

To make the sauce:
5. Bring the sugar, water and cherry liqueur to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until the sugar has dissolved.
6. Take the pot off the heat and add half the raspberries. Then blend the sauce until smooth.
7. Pass the sauce through a sieve and stir in the remaining raspberries.
8. Turn the panna cotta out to serve. Spoon over the sauce and garnish if required.