The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #173928 Message #4218906
Posted By: Helen
12-Mar-25 - 01:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: Your worst restaurant experience
Subject: RE: BS: Your worst restaurant experience
This is an Australianised version of Texas food. It might be TexMex but they don't call it that. The sauces are mostly dark coloured and the meat looks black. They say they slow cook it for a lot of hours.
The problem for me, from an Oz perspective, is that a good steak cooked using the pan-fry method and not overcooked has a lovely flavour and texture, but slow-cooked beef has a mushier texture and they use some out-there seasonings which overpowers the real flavour.
It's not to my taste.
I ordered a steak sandwich from another food counter right next to it which is part of the same organisation. I expected a proper Aussie steak and was given an overcooked, mushy, overly flavoured Texas version. I never ordered it again. There should have been a warning notice on the menu that they didn't mean "real Aussie steak". LOL