Skip to content

Category Archives: Food Festival 2007

Tripe, black pudding and a communal sing-song…

17-Jul-07
...but this is no East-End boozer. Jennifer Barclay reports from Saturday's Korean Food Festival The softly spoken Mr Kim tells me he thinks Korean food is the most highly developed in the world, while standing over the searing hot barbecue cooking galbi, beef marinated in 17 different ingredients. His white t-shirt somehow manages to remain immaculate, although he is slinging steaks onto the grill all day. 'French food is seen as the best in the world. The French, they have 170 different cuts of the cow, of beef. Koreans, we have more than 200. Close to 300.' An impressive fact, although I wonder privately if it is a good thing to eat that many parts of a cow. The thinly sliced meat tastes ...

Stuff your face in New Malden

07-Jul-07
Bastille day will give you the opportunity to sample Korean food washed down with British beer. Maybe there will be some soju available as well. Saturday 14 July sees the Korean Food Festival come to the Fountain Pub (left) in New Malden. Details as follows: 12:00~7:00 pm (Opening Ceremony 12:15 pm) at 120 Malden Road New Malden Surrey KT3 6DD (Fountain Pub) Organised by KORSA (the Korean Restaurants & Supermarkets Association) Hope the weather's a bit better than the festival in Kingston last week. Links: Samuel Cho's site for a full-sized photo of the dumplings