Leaves of cresses can be cooked as cabbage, the buds and flowers steamed as broccoli and the seeds ground as mustard. Animal Foods Kangaroos, possums, lizards, fish and shellfish were staple foods for the Aborigines. Small animals such as dragon lizards, grasshoppers and even hairy caterpillars were also eaten. Delicacies included whale and seal meat. On this trip you meet and talk to Aborigines from five different tribes.
Dinner is local fish cooked the Aboriginal way on coals.
The restaurant is a one hour drive from Sydney or a short helicopter ride. It is in the country overlooking a river. Many of the dishes are seasoned with produce from the Australian bush. Wattle Seed Deli, corner of Ultimo Road and Quay Street, Haymarket. Here you can buy a wide selection of indigenous foods including rainforest fruits, roasted wattle seeds, various nuts and berries, frozen rosella flowers and smoked kangaroo meat.