Getting food from South Melbourne Market

Last year, it was Dandenong Market. This year, it's the South Melbourne Market (Coventry St & Cecil Street, South Melbourne VIC 3205).

One of the things we were arrested by right at the start was the scent of oranges at the fruit stall.

Bought a litre bottle for $6. Lovely orange juice.

The stalls with seafood looked good. We hit this one for a start.

That was a lobster and potato salad with oranges. Not bad.

Followed by a unagi sushi, some scallops and kingfish sashimi.

And moved on to the fresh seafood stall for more stuff.

Like these really awesome St. Helen's oysters that were sweet, creamy and packed with that briny flavour.

Next stop was South Melbourne Seafoods.

Where we went through a tray of sashimi, some Smoky Bay oysters and a sea urchin.  Speaking of which, the sea urchin was unlike what I've had before. The floral element of the flavour was very strong. For some reasons, the whole of its flavours reminded me of lavender and pee. Yes, it was very strange. I'm not sure how I felt about it.

Followed up with some gozleme. These weren't as good as the ones that we had at Dough Works at Dandenong. 

We had thought that the pies from the market were warm but the display shelvings were actually the refrigeration type. That, we had only found out after buying the pies.

So we brought them cold pies back and put them into the oven.

Loved the pork pie. Was hearty and delicious. I detected a light rosemary in it. That was all I was able to identify from the flavouring.

Curry lamb pie was also pretty good.