#Xdream toongabbie full

Stock up on ingredients at Surya Supermarket and Spice Mini Mart. Here you'll find XDream, but also Mathura (, try the Jaffna-style dosai), Muthu (excellent rice-and-curry sets), and Chef Ceylon (, great lamprais). To experience the culture and the cuisine of Sri Lanka, head directly to Toongabbie, where Aurelia Street meets Portico Parade.

And what better way to do it than through food, through the restaurants we haven't been able to access.īy submitting your email you are agreeing to Nine Publishing's A city that now more than ever deserves to be explored and enjoyed. You're in Sydney, a city that can give you the whole world, if you know where to look for it. You couldn't be anywhere else.Īnd yet of course you are somewhere else. This is the sound and the smell of Sri Lanka. The 'ting, ting, ting' is the sound of cooks making kottu roti, a signature Sri Lankan dish of chopped flatbread, meat and sauce all fried up together on a hot grill.

#Xdream toongabbie full

The bain-marie here is full of traditional 'short eats', or fried snacks. XDream is little Sri Lanka, one of a bustling pocket of restaurants and supermarkets in this little corner of western Sydney. La Paula Chilean bakery and restarant in Fairfield. You see the tables packed with the Sri Lankan diaspora enjoying the food and the atmosphere of their old home. You see the big bain-marie up the front stuffed with fried treats: fish cutlets, egg rolls, ulundu vadais and more.