Food and Food and Foodie Festival!!

Heya!!!!

Looks like this weekend going to be sunny all over the south England!! So pleased!!!!!
I am off to Bristol for the important Harbour Festival!  
It starts Friday evening and will last all weekend! Feeling in the mood for sunshine, music, dance, circus and food? Then please come to Bristol this weekend!! You still have tomorrow!!

Last weekend I went back to Bristol for the Foodies Festival as well! 

After Bristol there are still 3 more foodies festivals going in Edinburgh, London and Oxford. They are hosted by Lakeland so there are really a lot of things going on and the local and national food providers all try to show their best as well! 

We've got herbs, fruit, patisserie, wine, apple juice, cheese, ice cream, cocktail etc.

             

There are so many flavours of vinegar, I personally prefer the raspberry that I tried on Sunday! Yum! 

 The apple juice was so delicious! I bought 2 bottles and I used it as my champagne during the Harbour Festival today! 

A lot of things happened there, I queued for this Jamaican jerk chicken for half hour! But it was really popular and worth the wait! 

 There was also a sand pit for kids! 

 Also sales!!!!!! From pan to mixer, well, Lakeland you know! 

 OK, I am going to introduce something really serious now!!!! 

 The Cupp Bubble Tea!!! 

Believe me, it is a real Taiwanese bubble tea! (In case you didn't realize, I am Taiwanese)

I've tried different bubble teas in London and Bristol, but this is the only one that I feel they really use real ingredients and real tea. Even the famous one in London, Bubbleology isn't up to the standards of real good quality Taiwanese Bubble Tea.

But this one, I promise, so good, so cool, so tasty! 

They currently only sell from their lovely van and so I think it is also a bit of fun chasing them around! Actually, I had one today as well!! 

 Besides all this food and drink at the foodies festival there were also chefs cooking lessons and wine and gin masterclasses!

It was a really good event if you are also interested in food and care about the food you get and where it comes from.

The recent news that the supermarkets in the UK are actually paying less to farmers than the cost to produce milk is really shocking to me. If all of the food production is controlled by a few big companies, then the diversity of  food in the UK will shrink eventually. And it is really worrying for the future. 

Hopefully the milk issue will be solved and it will also improve the situation of farmers in the UK. And go to the festival in London, Oxford or Edinburgh if you have time! 

Fang XX

London ZOO Late for party Animals!

The  posts from the last month went on tour with the lost goats...

Okay, first of all I want to say sorry to whoever had visited this blog and thought it might be an interesting and regularly updated blog. I was so very lazy in June but I've just hooked up myself again to keep this place happy. 

Time is passing so fast, I've just finished the Intermediate Patisserie term at Le Cordon Bleu and I am now in my first week in the Superior term. ( I will catch up with all the missing record of my study in the intermediate term and keep updating about the superior term! I PROMISE!! ) 

Before I talk about all the serious techniques, I'd really like to share my beautiful weekend with everyone.


The British summer seems as late or lazy as usual, we've had the wettest June but hopefully not the wettest July. Fingers crossed for the people who are fighting with floods at the moment.


Anyway, it was reasonably good weather in London last Friday. So before the Editor and I went to the evening zoo adventure we popped into the Euston Cider Tap for a fizzy cooling down. 

Cider is really popular in the south west of England but not as much in London so I was really excited to try this pub as I had became a cider lover when I was in Bristol!!