ShakeAway Melbourne
Dec. 7th, 2008 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmeliaMelbourne has a ShakeAway.
Readers from UK cities such as Southampton and Bournemouth, who are in need of their milkshake fix when in Australia will be relieved to know that ShakeAway Melbourne has now been confirmed by me as existing.
It is located in Highpoint shopping centre, Maribyrnong, and opened in May 2008. I took the 57 tram to get there, which passed a wall with Rage Against the Machine lyrics on it, Crisp Pizza, and a tree with purple blossom.
The ShakeAway stall is on the 1st floor of the shopping centre, and is painted in familiar blue and yellow stripes. The flavours are slightly different to those available in the UK: UK menu and Australia menu. The UK has cucumber, where as Australia has avocado. The UK has weetabix, where as Australia has weetbix. The most popular flavour at ShakeAway Melbourne is predictably tim tams. Other flavours not available in the UK include: freckles, polly waffle, violet crumble, hedgehog slice, iced vo vo, kingstons, golden rough, fruit tingles, and party mix.
There are other flavours that would be more familiar to UK ShakeAway visitors though, such as Cadbury's creme egg, coco pops, custard creams, curly wurly, and liquorice allsorts.
Similarly to in the UK, Melbourne ShakeAway also sell vegan shakes, and I've seen ShakeAway mentioned on a few vegan food blogs in Melbourne, such as This is Vegan Melbourne.
A regular milkshake costs $5.95 in Melbourne, and £2.70 in the UK, so not much difference there, but a large milkshake is cheaper in Melbourne - $7.10 as opposed to £3.70 in the UK.
After much contemplation, I chose to drink a tim tam and rhubarb milkshake. It was satisfyingly chocolatey and rhubarby, although many lumps of rhubarb had to be scooped out of the cup, as they were too large to be sucked up the straw.
Readers from UK cities such as Southampton and Bournemouth, who are in need of their milkshake fix when in Australia will be relieved to know that ShakeAway Melbourne has now been confirmed by me as existing.
It is located in Highpoint shopping centre, Maribyrnong, and opened in May 2008. I took the 57 tram to get there, which passed a wall with Rage Against the Machine lyrics on it, Crisp Pizza, and a tree with purple blossom.
The ShakeAway stall is on the 1st floor of the shopping centre, and is painted in familiar blue and yellow stripes. The flavours are slightly different to those available in the UK: UK menu and Australia menu. The UK has cucumber, where as Australia has avocado. The UK has weetabix, where as Australia has weetbix. The most popular flavour at ShakeAway Melbourne is predictably tim tams. Other flavours not available in the UK include: freckles, polly waffle, violet crumble, hedgehog slice, iced vo vo, kingstons, golden rough, fruit tingles, and party mix.
There are other flavours that would be more familiar to UK ShakeAway visitors though, such as Cadbury's creme egg, coco pops, custard creams, curly wurly, and liquorice allsorts.
Similarly to in the UK, Melbourne ShakeAway also sell vegan shakes, and I've seen ShakeAway mentioned on a few vegan food blogs in Melbourne, such as This is Vegan Melbourne.
A regular milkshake costs $5.95 in Melbourne, and £2.70 in the UK, so not much difference there, but a large milkshake is cheaper in Melbourne - $7.10 as opposed to £3.70 in the UK.
After much contemplation, I chose to drink a tim tam and rhubarb milkshake. It was satisfyingly chocolatey and rhubarby, although many lumps of rhubarb had to be scooped out of the cup, as they were too large to be sucked up the straw.