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Australian tourists to Thailand in need of an Australian meat pie fix need now look no further than the freezer section of their local Big C or Makro Cash & Carry supermarkets (and some Irish Bars), with Bangkok meat supplier Asia West Foods introducing a range of 250gm (about 0.5lb) pies, including an ?Aussie meat pie?. Also available is a chicken and mushroom and a steak and mushroom variant for those seeking something more exotic.

The ?Aussie meat pie? from Asia West Foods is supplied vacuum packed, with the pie itself sitting inside a second, inner plastic bag, with some obscure juice droplets also present.

After heating, the Asia West ?Aussie meat pie? took on a darker, more yellow tinge, and despite standing for five minutes, the fats in the pastry refused to dry out sufficiently to a allow the pastry to firm up ? indicative of the high fat and lard ratio used to make the shortcrust pastry case and which might provide a better result if heated in a convection oven.

Though the pastry was slightly disappointing, the aroma emanating from the pierced holes in the ?Aussie meat pie? crown were never the less quite alluring and cutting into the ?Aussie meat pie? brought about no level of disappointment.

So how good are these "Aussie meat pies"?

[AsEyeSeeIt]

AsEyeSeeIt, on 10 April 2011 - 09:17 PM, said:

Australian tourists to Thailand in need of an Australian meat pie fix need now look no further than the freezer section of their local Big C or Makro Cash & Carry supermarkets (and some Irish Bars), with Bangkok meat supplier Asia West Foods introducing a range of 250gm (about 0.5lb) pies, including an ?Aussie meat pie?. Also available is a chicken and mushroom and a steak and mushroom variant for those seeking something more exotic.

The ?Aussie meat pie? from Asia West Foods is supplied vacuum packed, with the pie itself sitting inside a second, inner plastic bag, with some obscure juice droplets also present.

After heating, the Asia West ?Aussie meat pie? took on a darker, more yellow tinge, and despite standing for five minutes, the fats in the pastry refused to dry out sufficiently to a allow the pastry to firm up ? indicative of the high fat and lard ratio used to make the shortcrust pastry case and which might provide a better result if heated in a convection oven.

Though the pastry was slightly disappointing, the aroma emanating from the pierced holes in the ?Aussie meat pie? crown were never the less quite alluring and cutting into the ?Aussie meat pie? brought about no level of disappointment.

So how good are these "Aussie meat pies"?

Tried one of the chicken and mushroom pies yesterday. The story above doesn't talk about that one. Pretty nice. Some big pieces of chicken and diced carrot in a white sauce. A bit limp after getting zapped but tasty.