Sure Travel Journey Vol 3.4 Spring 2017 | Page 41

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Clockwise from left: A bird’s eye-view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The Rocks market pops up under the bridge every weekend and features
a vast array of excellent food stalls. If you can’t get a table at the exclusive
Quay restaurant, the view at the Opera Bar will do. Streetfood delight.
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had changed numerous times. While I
marvelled at my setting, my gourmand
friends (on the other side of the phone
screen) piled on questions about the
famed snow egg. The answer? It’s an
ethereal dessert that vanishes in a
few bites.
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55-step snow egg. A custard-apple “yolk”
is cloaked in a pillow of meringue, which
is encrusted in the thinnest biscuit shell,
blowtorched to melt over the exterior
of the “egg” and finally nestled on a light
granita with a guava fool underneath.
When I finally land a table, the flavours
The Rocks, under the Sydney Harbour
Bridge, is a pricey but convenient area for
the first-time visitor – it’s minutes from
the Opera House and the ferries that dart
across to Manly, Darling Harbour and the
Taronga Zoo in Mosman (go for the views
from the cable car and not the animals in
captivity). This is also an ideal point from
which to enjoy the bridge known to locals
as the “coat hanger”, by picnicking under
it on the grass or booking a 3.5-hour
adventure climb across the arch. Over
weekends, the streets of The Rocks close
to traffic and vendors set out stalls laden
with beautiful trinkets and freshly made
food that reflects the city’s multicultural
heritage.
Hidden under the shadow of the bridge
– if you know where to look – there’s
evidence of the Firs t Nations, the coastal
Aboriginals known as the Eora people, who
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