Bak Chor Mee: (Pork and Mushroom Noodles)

Inspired by the awesome Malaysian noodle dishes I ate recently at GB Oriental Cafe in Nottingham (read more here) I felt the need attempt to rustle up some thing similar at home I reached out to the bookshelf and found myself perusing the rather excellent cookbook LEMONGRASS AND GINGER by Lemei Tan The dish I attempted was…

Asian Street food from Clapping Seoul and Catsu in Doncaster

This weekend we were in Doncaster on another one of our Wild in Art trails looking for Elmers on the ELMER’S CHRISTMAS ART PARADE DONCASTER hosted by @mydoncaster We certainly needed some food to sustain us on our hunt and so we checked out some of the Street food offerings at the Woolmarket where we…

Banzai Street Food in Lincoln

Banzai Street food are just one of many street food vendors located in the newly refurbished Cornhill Market at Lincoln. The food from Chef May is described as ‘Freshly cooked Asian fusion street food… curries, burgers, loaded fries as more inspired by the Far East‘. If the name sounds familiar then you may have encounterd…

Jian Bing House in Cambridge

Jianbing House in the Guildhall Cambridge Market Square was an excellent find on our recent trip to Cambridge. I had spotted it before we arrived on one of my usual Google map hunts when I was looking for street food in the town. The name translates as Pancake House or Chinese Crepes as they most…

Mantis Japanese food at Spark in York

Mantis are serving up some quite excellent Japanese Food from their unit at Spark in York. They had everything that I was craving on the menu, Gyoza, Ramen, and Bao Buns so we ordered some of each. Why not we were hungry (well I was anyway) 😎 CHICKEN GYOZA Our first tasty bit was a…

Smash burgers and Katsu Chicken at Rock Bottom in Teignmouth

Rock Bottom in Teignmouth, a rock music bar, serving up Smash burgers and Japanese styled dishes, is a bit of a curiosity and unexpected find here in this small seaside town. It almost feels out of place as it is more the sort of spot that I see pop up in the big cities where…

Wings and Things in Exeter

Wings and Things in Exeter are one of the Traders you can find at the Guildhall Foodmarket specialising in Filipino street food The name gives away part of their food offerings as yes they do serve wings, they also were selling noodles (hence my interest), dumplings and Rice bowls SPECIALS BOARD The specials board was…

Mei Mei at Borough Market: Traditional Singaporean cooking & Hainanese chicken rice

Mei Mei in Borough Market specialize in traditional Singaporean cooking & Hainanese chicken rice. The place is ‘apparently’ famous run by Michelin starred Elizabeth Haigh, ex head chef at east London’s Pidgin and is described as ‘a kopotiam for everyone’ on their instagram page. All I knew before visiting is that they sold Hainanese chicken rice, a…