Jam Donut @ Rainbow Cakes, Strathfield

I’ll be brutally frank – Strathfield is a shithole.

It’s grubby, run down, has very ordinary cafes and food outlets, and the road system is dreadful.

It was once a suburb your aspired to live in, thanks to the old-world charm of the housing, leafy streets and the good schools in the area. It still has the old houses, leafy streets and good schools, but the retail precinct is a shambles.

I only go there because it has a train interchange.

Sydney's best doughnuts — Rainbow Cakes, Strathfield

I still managed to find a decent doughnut when I had a recent visit to Strathfield.

I went to Rainbow Cakes, which is just opposite the train station. They had a few doughnuts and fritters in the window, but a homemade jam-filled one caught my eye.

It was coated in sugar. It had loads of jam in it, which wasn’t overly sweet. The dough was quite heavy and oily – you could tell by the way it had hardly risen. After a bite or two it was quite flat.