Sydney Royal Easter Show 2015: Ten essential food and drink experiences

From two-foot hot dogs to kids-only cooking classes. Here are some of the best food and drink experiences you can have at this year's show.

Scones at the Country Women's Association Tea Room, $5, Arts and Crafts Pavilion

"Always spread jam on first, then cream," says CWA Tea Room chairperson Barbara Reichert. "Always." The CWA bakes over 3000 fresh, piping-hot scones a day and eating one feels like a hug from your favourite great-aunt. The Tea Room is less of a room and more of a roped-off area near a knife salesman, and you'll struggle to find a seat at morning or afternoon tea, but a visit is still the show's biggest must-do.

Dagwood Dog, about $6, pretty much anywhere

Let's be honest: the sausage meat in one of these bad boys is often far from the quality of the pure-breed Berkshires competing for best swine in show. This doesn't make a Dagwood Dog (or, if you will, a Pluto Pup) any less of an essential food-on-stick experience. If you can still see batter through a curtain of tomato sauce, you obviously don't have enough sauce.

Cake on a stick from the Carousel Cafe, $5, President's Plaza

You could actually write a "10 things on sticks at the show" list and not even scratch the surface of what's on offer. Other sticky classics include cheese, corn, fairy floss, chips, and this take on the American funnel cake which involves, like all good things, frying sweet batter in hot oil. With a lug of maple syrup and dusting of icing sugar, it's truly delicious stuff.

The O.M.G D.O.G from Wally's Gourmet Hot Dogs, $26, Riverina Avenue and Spotless Stadium

A 68cm frankfurt topped with Wally's signature beef chilli, bacon, coleslaw and a "mixed cheese bonanza" is not the kind of thing you want to attempt before a whirl on the Space Roller. Two serves of chips are included in the price tag if you're sharing the dog or feeling peckish.

Cheese board, $18.50, Sydney Royal Beer and Wine Garden

If you prefer your fromage sans stick, the Sydney Royal cheese board has award-winning slices from Maffra Cheese Co, Berrys Creek Gourmet Cheese and the soft and delicate King Island Furneaux Double Cream (named after James Cook's Tasmanian sailing mate, Captain Tobias Furneaux). It would be churlish not order a charcuterie plate that includes Alto Ligurian olives, Kaczanowski and Co pastrami and La Macelleria salami at the same time.

Pies by Mick's Bakehouse, $5.20-$5.90, Woodchop Stadium, Woolworths Fresh Food Dome and Spotless Stadium

Frequent winner of the Sydney Royal 'Champion Gourmet Pie' and many other awards, Michael Di Salvatore is a leading figure in Australian baking. The chicken, cranberry and camembert number won Mick a Sydney Royal gold medal in 2015, but it's almost impossible to go past a plain beef.

The Food Farm

To enter the Farmyard Nursery and feed alpacas, you need to enter via the Food Farm. Hosted by the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW, children can learn where the fruit, veg, meat, bread, and dairy products come from via a bunch of hands-on displays. There's also five daily cooking classes for kids over six-years old, and when you leave the building there are baby goats to pat.

Medal-winning NSW wine, $15.90-$40 bottle, Sydney Royal Beer and Wine Garden

Far from the house-white-or-red choice usually found at events of this scale, Sydney Royal is showcasing some of the top gong-earners of this year's Wine Show. What's better, they're being sold at special show prices. A $35 bottle of 2014 Cherry Tree Hill Riesling is a beaut way to wind down after an hour in the Showbag Hall.

Oysters at the De Costi Seafoods and Tyrell's Wine Bar, Woolworths Fresh Food Dome

Frank Theodore from De Costi wants to show you that oysters are just like wine in that different growing conditions dramatically affect the taste of each bivalve beauty.Many different oysters will be available throughout the show for tasting, but the permanent stars are Sydney rocks from Pambula, certified-organic pacifics from Smoky Bay, and the champion of 2015's Sydney Royal aquaculture competition, the almighty Tathra Sydney rock.

Theatre Kitchen, Woolworths Fresh Food Dome

Jamie Oliver made an appearance on day one, but there's no shortage of other cooking demonstrations happening in the 280-seater Theatre Kitchen for the rest of the show. Rock by between 11am-5pm daily for cooking demos, recipe ideas, and tasting from some of the country's leading chefs.