Sean Choolburra on the best foods in the world.

What are the foods of your childhood?

My childhood food is turtle and rice.

What are your favourites now?

My favourite food is my wife’s cooking. I used to be a plain and simple eater. My wife

introduced me to new foods, and good quality food. She awakened my taste buds!

What are best fruits and vegetables?

The best fruits and veggies are pineapple, mango, blueberries, goji berries, chilli, and kale.

Are they any foods you just don't like?

I dislike coriander and celery because the flavour is too overpowering and I don’t like the

texture of tofu.

What's your favourite dessert?

My favourite desert is a fruit platter.

What do you normally eat for breakfast? What about your ideal brekky?

My typical brekky is toasted coconut, goji berries and half a banana. My ideal brekky would

be a croissant with butter and jam.

What is your favourite holiday? What do you eat for it?

My favourite holiday would be Christmas. I celebrate with family around a feast that my

wife has cooked up all by herself. We have our immediate and extended family over....large

numbers. Sometimes it's roast veggies and salads, and sometimes it’s a seafood Christmas.

She likes to mix it up. There are normally over eight different dishes and two deserts. She makes

the best trifle. Last year she made a ten litre trifle!

Where did you grow up? What is the food like there?

I grew up in Townsville [Australia]. Typical I ate and was surrounded by bush foods which include

Dugong, burdikin plums and chonki apples, mangoes, tamarons, bush lemons, turtle and

fish. I come from a family of twelve kids, so we appreciated our bush foods.

I have also lived in Sydney and Gold Coast. I currently live in Sydney, which I love because

there is a lot of variety of the worlds foods. I love trying other peoples traditional foods.

It's late at night, and you're only just getting home. What do you eat?

From a late night, my snack would be chili crackers and cheese.

What can one typically find inside your fridge?

In my fridge there is currently... fruits, veggies, cheese, yoghurt, cordial, chocolate biscuits, left overs from last night (coconut lamb curry and rice), juice, jelly, custard and cold meat (ham etc),

onion and shallot pancakes and marinated beef for tonights dinner.

Do you cook? What do you like to make?

My wife is the cook, however I like to make crumbed lamb chops or fish and rice.

What are the best summer foods?

The best summer fruits are mango, pineapple, and coconut.

Winter?

My favourite winter food is laksa, pumpkin soup or my wife's chicken and veg soup.

Best sandwich?

My ultimate sandwich is Devon, hot chips and tomato sauce AKA Mungindi Hamburger!

Beverage of choice?

My choice of drink is a cup of tea with slice of ginger and soy milk.

What do you like on pizza?

The best pizza topping is ham and pineapple.

What is something interesting you've tried on your travels?

The most interesting food I have had while traveling would be bison/buffalo in an Aboriginal

reservation in the middle of Canada.

What is the best thing you can remember eating?

Nothing beats home cooking, eating with the family, and comfort food.

What do you put on toast?

Strawberry jam is my choice of spread for toast.

What would you serve at a dinner party?

If I was throwing a party the menu would include a few fish dishes accompanies by salad

and rice.

When you hear the word "family", what food comes to mind?

When I think of family I think of kinship and cultural connections. It also takes me back to my

comedy, because all my comedy is based on my family and close friends. Most of my jokes

are exaggerated real life stories about my brothers, wife, mother and kids.

If you could recommend any restaurant, cafe, or bar in the world, which one would it be?

I would highly recommend everyone to visit the Lilong (the Taste of Shanghai) restaurant in

Hurstville, NSW.

If it's just you for dinner, what do you make?

If I am by myself, I would normally make noodles with chilli.

Please share a food-related memory with us!

I recently travelled to China and visited the traditional people in Dimen Village. We were

treated like royalty and provided their traditional foods which they harvest themselves.

Everything was fresh, as they live of the land. The village is surrounded by veggie paddocks

and rice fields. Their main meat is pork. I loved their food, as it was spicy. We both shared

our cultural dances and songs, and it is a memory I will treasure forever.

To see see some of Sean's comedy, check out the video below:

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Want to cook some of Sean's favourite foods at home? Check out our recipes for laksa-spiced pumpkin soup and spicy cold noodles!

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