Campsie Food Festival, 2008

Korean noodles

The annual Campsie Food Festival was the usual celebration of all things multicultural and delicious.

Beamish Street was closed down to traffic as locals crammed the festival sampling dishes from Fiji, Thailand, Hungary, Turkey, Japan, China, Indonesia and more.

Despite ominous weather forecasts, the sun shone on ensuring a tasty day out for one and all.


Fruit carvings






Indonesian cassava singkong goreng (cassava with garlic)


Bracelets


Chicken with yakisoba


Takoyaki balls


Boquitas $8.00
Freshly made guacomol, frijoles volteados (black bean pesto)
and salsa with salad on stone-ground corn chips
from Mayan Coffee and Xocolat

We snacked on boquitas, a tasty combination of super crisp corn chips doused with salsa, black bean pesto and gaucamole. The frijoles volteados was particularly good, a dense mash of black beans that worked particularly well with the salty corn chips.


Lamb curry and roast pork with cassava and roti $10.00
from Fiji Island Food

For lunch I couldn't resist the choose-your-own combo from the Fiji Island Food stall. The lamb curry was tender and melt-in-the-mouth, the sauce thick and creamy. The roast pork was even better, wonderfully juicy even after sitting in the bain-marie.

Cassava is a heavy starchy root vegetable, somewhat fibrous in texture and extremely filling. The plain steamed cassava paired well with the richness of the curry. A round of delicate roti rounded out a generous lunch.



Maeve O'Mara was hosting food demonstrations on one stage, but we were more distracted by the lion dancing performance, a breath-taking display of acrobatics and teamwork as two agile young men leapt their way along a series of raised metal platforms.













This year's Campsie Food Festival was held on Saturday 17 May 2008.

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Campsie Food Festival 2006
Campsie Food Festival 2005
Campsie Food Festival 2004