ALTHOUGH Samata Talukder has only been in Australia for six months, she’s already in love with the country and wants to share some of her Bangladeshi culture with the Tamworth community.
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Ms Talukder will be cooking two traditional dishes from her home country for the Fiesta La Peel, a multicultural street festival which will have food, craft and entertainment from 20 different countries.
Ms Talukder will make hochpoch, a “very famous” Bangladeshi meal, along with a sweet curry which is eaten as a desert in Bangladesh.
“Hochpoch is very simple curry. It has rice, salt, oil, green chili, chili powder and a little bit of sugar,” Ms Talukder said.
“The sweet curry is milk, rice and sugar.”
Ms Talukder’s husband, Amit Das, said living in Australia has always been the couple’s dream.
“From my country’s view, Australia is the top country,” Mr Das said.
“The people are really nice and very helpful – when I first came here, I spoke English a little bit slowly and I couldn’t understand everything, but everyone always helped me.”
Peel Street will be closed of between White and Fitzroy streets on Saturday for the festival, which will run from 3pm to 8pm.
Everyone is encouraged to dress culturally for the event, which will have free tasting plates, street and stage entertainment and children’s activities.
