Cheong Liew

Baby Emu: Beggar’s Style

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cheong Liew: Inside My Food
Cheong Liew

By David Sly and Cheong Liew

Published 2025

  • About

I have taken Asian culinary inspiration and introduced it to an Australian environment in so many different ways during my cooking career, but cooking whole baby emu in the Grampians is one of the more outlandish examples.

Method

Cheong cooked this with the celebrated Philip Searle for the Australian Food Symposium in Victoria’s Grampians National Park. They called their dish baby emu: beggar’s style, because the bird cavity was stuffed with belly pork, taro braised with fermented red beancurd and