The corner I never get tired of
There’s a particular energy to the Central Market end of the Adelaide CBD that I fell for straight away. The Adelaide Central Market spilling over with produce and cheese. Chinatown right beside it. Gouger and Grote Streets packed with restaurants. People shouldering shopping bags, kids dragging parents along by the hand. We set up Chewberry at the Central Market Plaza because I wanted to be in the middle of all that, not tucked down some quiet laneway.
It means you can do your weekly shop, drift past the Asian grocers, and walk out with a box of mochi donuts and a bubble tea. That, to me, is a perfect Saturday.
Why this spot, of all spots
I looked at a lot of locations. This one made sense the moment I stood on the footpath. The Central Market Plaza puts a Taiwanese dessert shop right where Adelaide already comes to eat and graze. Our bubble tea sits comfortably next to Chinatown. Our mochi donuts catch people mid-stroll who had no plans to stop.
Most of our first-timers tell me the same thing: they weren’t looking for us. They just smelled the donuts.
If you’re coming in for us, fold us into a bigger outing. The Adelaide Central Market and Chinatown are on our doorstep.
Gouger and Grote Streets are wall-to-wall food. Victoria Square (Tarntanyangga) is a short stroll, and the free city tram runs down to Rundle Mall and back toward the Adelaide Railway Station and the river.
So whether you’re early for a show at Her Majesty’s Theatre or winding down after market shopping, we’re an easy detour. We like being the happy accident in someone’s afternoon.
A confession about gratitude
I don’t say this to be sentimental, but I genuinely have to pinch myself some mornings. I grew up in Taiwan around tea and night-market snacks. I trained as a designer. And somehow I now get to stand in one of Adelaide’s best food spots, making the things I love, for people who keep coming back.
That’s the dream. Not a figure of speech — the actual dream I used to talk about and half-believe would happen.
The little things I notice
It shows up in the details. The flavours we rotate so there’s always a reason to return. The care that goes into the tea. The face a kid makes when they spot the Taiwan Bear on the box. None of that is on a spreadsheet, but it’s the reason I do this.
Some afternoons I’ll catch the line out front and have to take a breath. Adelaide took a chance on a Taichung girl’s idea. I don’t take that lightly.
Drop in and say hi
We’re open, and feeding you would honestly make my day. Come find Chewberry at the Central Market Plaza in Adelaide — bring your market haul, grab a bubble tea, and try a mochi donut while you’re here. Tell me it’s your first time and I’ll point you to the good ones.
