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KFC – Korean Fried Chicken – and French Korean Links

15-Jul-08

KFC – Korean Fried Chicken – and French Korean Links

Jennifer Barclay reports from the Korean Food Festival, held in the garden of the Fountain Pub, New Malden, Saturday 12 July 2008 By 10.30 on Saturday morning, I’d already done my best to introduce millions of BBC Radio Four listeners to the delights of kimchi. I’d been invited onto the travel show Excess Baggage to talk about the experiences described in my new book Meeting Mr Kim: Or How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi. What an appropriate thing to do on the day of the Korean Food Festival in New Malden – to have Sandi Toksvig, one of the beeb’s top presenters, eating kimchi on air and know the garlicky whiff of it was pervading the whole of ...
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Food Festival in New Malden

11-Jul-08

Food Festival in New Malden

The Korean Food Festival will be held tomorrow, 12 July, at the Fountain Pub, 120 Malden Rd, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 6DD. [Map] Word of mouth tells me that the format will be pretty much the same as last year – so it will be starting at lunchtime (maybe from about noon) and continuing all afternoon, probably wrapping up by 6pm. But the food will have gone by then, so turn up for lunch. Guitar / Kayageum duo Jeon Sung-min and Jung Ji-eun will be performing at around 1pm, and Jang Sang-min and Chang Hang-jin will be there with their free books about Korean culture. They may even have some publicity flyers for LKL. Visit their own newly revamped site at kscpp.net. At ...
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