Hung Vuong, Cabramatta

I had a friend in high school who used to mortify me with her favourite indulgence. Avocado shakes. Yes. That's one sentence.

Avocado.
And sugar.
Condensed milk.
Cow's milk.
And lots of ice.

I was horrified.

But I'm older now. More mature. And I'm a foodblogger. It could only mean one thing…



We headed out to Cabramatta for some snacking action at sentimental dessert house favourite Hung Vuong.



There's an entire catalogue of fruit drinks for the thirsty sweet tooth. Iced brewed teas and iced milk teas are only $3 with flavours ranging from lychee, kumquat lemon and paw paw, to taro, red bean and kiwifruit.

If you like your drinks a bit thicker, fruit shakes, smoothies and frappes are $3.50 and include the usual flavours plus exotic jack fruit, custard apple, durian, carrot, green tea and pennywort.



And then there are the layered tropical icy drinks, a pick-n-mix of Asian sweet stuffs topped with shaved ice, a ladle of evaporated milk (sometimes coconut milk) and a squirt of bright red strawberry syrup. In Malaysia it is known as ice kacang, the Filipinos call it halo halo, the Vietnamese know it as che [number] mau, the number indicating how many varieties of sweets are contained within.


Che 7 Mau $3.00
7 choices drink


Sinh To Bo $3.50
Avocado shake

I only had eyes for the avocado shake, and surprisingly, it was quite good. The avocado flavour is intense, like a thick liquid avocado ice cream. It's incredibly rich though, and about halfway I start to feel a little queasy. It's tasty though, and I plough on, sucking desperately towards the bottom searching for more.


Pandan waffle with sticky rice $2.50

There's a huge selection of boxed meals and desserts out the front, so we snack on sticky coconut rice as well as pandan waffle stuffed with rice as well. Glutinous rice is steamed with coconut milk and coconut shreds then tinted with food colouring in intense shades of orange and green.


Sticky rice $2.50

There's an order for a pork chop with fried rice


Com Duong Chau Suon $8.50
Combination fried rice with pork chop

and a plate of cha gio for Snacking: Round Two.


Cha gio spring rolls $6.00

The spring rolls take an eon to emerge from the kitchen (about twenty long painful minutes when the pork chop only took ten) but they are golden in colour and fresh from the fryer.

They arrived accompanied by traditional Vietnamese partners of lettuce, mint, grated carrot and nuoc cham.


Lettuce and mint


Nuoc cham dipping sauce
Fish sauce, water, lemon juice, garlic, sugar and chilli

Take spring roll, wrap in lettuce and mint, dip in nuoc cham and eat.

Delicious!




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Hung Vuong
65 John Street, Cabramatta, Sydney
Tel: +61 (02) 9723 7270

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