Gourmet Traveller

EATING WITH Matt Okine

What did you enjoy eating when you were growing up in Brisbane?

My dad’s chichingas. They’re like a beef skewer with a nutty dry rub over them. My dad ran a food stall at Woodford Folk Festival. He made Ghanaian food like black-eyed bean stew, peanut soup, jollof rice and chichingas. I was bored out of my brain at a folk festival so they got me through the day.

I still get that advice! I’d be getting ready to go to a party and dad would say, “Now if you

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