Milton Sunday Market

Our neighbour actually told us about Milton Market two years ago, and we finally went this year! (Yup, it took us that long lol)

Continuing from my previous post Gold Coast Train Trip — 50c Fares for the Win — petrol prices are still ridiculously high, so we took advantage of the 50c fares again. Gotta milk it for all it’s worth before they change their minds and cancel it. Though thinking about it, we’re really just milking our own money as taxpayers ourselves.

The Milton Market is open every Sunday from 7am to 1pm. Address: Corner of Cribb Street and Little Cribb St, Milton QLD 4064 (it’s a car park on weekdays). It’s super easy to get to — take the train to Milton Station, then walk about 400m along Milton Road after hopping off, and you’re there (just follow the crowd)!

The market has a ton of stalls (maybe 100+?), about half of them food stalls and food trucks, spanning a bunch of cultures — Greek, Malaysian, Chinese, Japanese, Nepali, German, Turkish, Taiwanese, Filipino desserts, Korean desserts — so many choices.

We bought a Filipino-style purple yam cookie for $8 (yikes, is that how much cookies cost nowadays?). It was soft and tasty, but crazy sweet — perfect for my Filipino wife, who has a sweet tooth (she’s basically an ant).

About a quarter of the market is food — bread, seafood, jerky, honey, desserts, meat, coffee, drinks, etc. And there was even a Taiwanese scallion pancake stall?!?! My wife immediately decided on getting one with Taiwanese sausage inside ($14), which was delicious! We’ll definitely buy it again next time.

Eating Taiwanese scallion pancakes at a market overseas is honestly a pretty funny experience. Australia really is a multicultural place, and we’re so lucky to live here.

The coffee at Honey Badger was great — the barista with the big beard was fun to talk to, and he even fist-bumped me after cracking a joke lol.

Our friends happened to be coming over for morning tea on Tuesday, so we also bought Korean ‘sandos,’ which are flavoured biscuits. There were so many flavours! We ended up going with peanut, blueberry, matcha, pistachio, chocolate, matcha strawberry, lemon, and lotus biscoff. Our friend said every flavour was good. Personally, my favourite was the peanut one — but I like anything with peanuts in it, so maybe I’m just a tad biased.

We also tried the Coconut Banana Cake from a stall called Banana Bread King — pretty good! A little sweet, but nowhere near as sweet as that purple yam cookie haha. Goes great with tea or coffee. Another one we’ll repurchase next time for sure.

The remaining quarter of the market is made up of handmade goods stalls and vegetable stalls.

I think the veggie stalls honestly aren’t much cheaper than the supermarket? Unless you wait until closing time, when they do a big discount sale. But I guess the difference is it comes straight from the farm, and the money goes straight to the farmers (probably?).

We waited until closing time and picked up some cheap $2 mushrooms, plus guavas that my wife loves, then ended our adventure there.

Would we go back to Milton Market? Absolutely, there are still heaps of food stalls that we haven’t tried.
I was going to recommend bringing cash so you can avoid the additional card fees, but given that RBA is banning card surcharges from October 1, maybe cash won’t be as necessary? Most of the stalls we bought stuff from all had eftpos facilities from memory.

Side note: my friend recommended an organic market up in the north side — we’ll go explore that with my wife next time. But given our procrastination nation skills, it’ll probably happen next year.