Welcome to Egg World: The fairylit shipping container serving eggs 20+ ways

Minced, curried, mashed, sliced and scrambled, or even reduced to cheese-like strings – whichever way you like your eggs, this food truck in an unexpected location is bound to serve a riff on it.

Love eggs? Allow me to introduce you to Egg World: a converted shipping container in Schofields serving more than 20 specialty egg dishes, from garlicky scrambled curds to hard-boiled slices, fiery with chilli.

Egg World channels India’s egg capital, Surat, to offer more riffs on its namesake ingredient than anywhere I’ve visited in Sydney. The city, located in the western state of Gujarat, is known as a stronghold of “eggetarianism” (an Indian vegetarian diet that includes eggs). Restaurants such as the Chandan Omelette Centre prepare eggs in more than a hundred different ways, and the city streets are filled with cooks working large, circular grills known as tawa, the hot surfaces bubbling with yolks, flavoured with swirls of ginger, chilli, green garlic, onions or tomatoes.

For a scaled-down taste of this cuisine, make the journey roughly 50 kilometres north-west of the CBD to a near-empty field beneath a transmission tower. Turn off the M7 and slowly, unexpectedly, your destination will come into view: a collection of two or three Indian food trucks, illuminated by fairy lights, serving everything from goat biryani to mango lassi.

For a first-timer like me, it’s captivating. I didn’t realise this was here, but I’m glad I do now.

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Some diners compare the pop-up food hub to the dhabas (roadside eateries) of India. It has a work-in-progress charm to it, with plastic outdoor seating, fluorescent signage and patchwork flooring made of astroturf and wood planks. You can hear spices sizzling against the tawa, along with a lively playlist (with tracks like JoT Musix’s Drippy Desi Remake). It certainly has more character than a snack stop at any multinational highway service station.

Egg World opened in April last year, in the space between Manraj Tandoori Junction and a stall selling Indian sweet treats such as rajbhog (almond) ice-cream and falooda (chilled, dessert-like drinks, often milk-based and filled with fruit, jelly or nuts). The site has hosted live screenings of India v Australia cricket games, with match-day discounts to draw crowds, but on the cold night I visit, the food is the headline act.

I highly recommend Egg World’s cheese masala appetiser, where strips of hard-boiled eggs are presented with a tangle of stringy cheese, finely chopped coriander and the zing of chilli an