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While ‘New Gold Mountain’ is a fictional drama, its characters and situations are rooted in a past and a people who are very real.

Guest host Clint Stanaway on Nine's Vic travel show visits Abbotsford Convent, a local patisserie and beer garden.

The former charcoal chicken shop is now a sophisticated European-style wine bar.

It’s set in the Victorian goldfields of the 1850s, but SBS’s first historical drama is not the tale you may think you already know.

It’s set in the Victorian goldfields of the 1850s, but SBS’s first historical drama is not the tale you may think you already know.

In this series, our writers explore how food shaped Australian history – and who we are today. The first whiffs of Chinese cooking in mid-19th century Australia would have emanated from tiny huts owned by Chinese workers in the goldfields. There, they faced racial hostility from the European miners, culminating in the Lambing Flat riots in New South Wales in 1860-61, where Chinese residents of the fields were physically assaulted and had their camps set on fire. Chinese cooks were also employ...