London Chinese Cuisine Festival
8-10 September 2017
Friday-Saturday 11:00 – 22:00
Sunday 11:00 – 18:00
Potters Fields Park (by London City Hall)
London Chinese Food Festival is one of the unique cultural festivals in the UK aimed at promoting Chinese food culture and also to enhance its influence in the entire UK. The event takes place every summer in London where every restaurant and beverage companies from China and Britain participate. In this festival, food culture plays a critical role in this cultural exchange since Chines cuisine has gained popularity in the UK
This is a kind of festival that provides a three-day foodie wonderland of all Chinese food and drinks. More than 20 Chinese restaurants and stalls serve the finest beverages and dishes for the final alfresco feast. According to this festival, quality is emphasized regarding authenticity and taste where integrity is extended to both environment and social responsibility.
This year’s Chinese food fair will be done at Potter Fields Park this coming weekend. More than 20 food stalls will be serving dishes from dumplings and noodles to bubble wrap waffles. Chefs will do their best to display the unique Chinese cooking skills such as how to cook various dim sum and Chinese hot pot. Clubs will also be serving dim sum feasts and Shanghai cuisine comprising of such dishes as stir-fried crystal shrimp and drunken chicken. Chinese traditional performances such as Chinese classical dancing will grace the occasion
The main aim of the festival is to offer a nutritional and a healthy twist on Chinese classical street food that is packaged in a single tightly passion filled box. The festival will create a selection of balanced bento boxes with low processed fats that have no artificial addictive and provide the energy all day.
At the same time, UK Han Culture Association is a non-governmental organisation which mainly consists of Chinese overseas students and workers aiming at reviving the traditional Han Chinese Clothing British han wind was founded in 2009, In the students, the main activity place set up in London, since the size of the regular activities remain at around 20 people. British han wind activities are non-profit, mainly including the Chinese nationality traditional festival party (such as the Spring Festival, The largest of the annual gathering, the innovation of the modern British cultural life and blend in hanfu experience (such as the hanfu English year tea ).
Hanfu, the traditional costume of the Chinese han nationality, was the general name of a series of costumes of the han nationality from the period of emperor wudi to the end of the Ming dynasty. It was abolished in the qing dynasty (1645). Then, han’s national costume has been lost in sight. China also called “hua xia”, The Huaxia nationality, since ancient times, is the state of clothing and the state of etiquette. Since 2003 the hanfu run was a held by live spontaneously, by the intellectuals and youth groups as the main body, take hanfu regression as a starting point, to Revive the Chinese culture as the goal of a cultural Renaissance movement.
There are many specialties food and brand here. BOXU is a young and vibrant catering brand, committed to the innovation and revolution of catering, adhering to the pure Chinese descent, snare pan-asian cuisine, full of modern style of cooking ingredients to return to the flavor, rather than emphasis on traditional Chinese cooking techniques.
Since the launch of the brand, they have been searching for folk food. Scattered traditional folk, folk cooking gourmet gathered, draw lessons from the combination of methods of western-style food and spices, it makes Chinese classic traditional food new shapes.
Eggs waffles originated in Hong Kong in the 1950s. Is said to be a grocery store at the time the boss in order not to waste the broken egg, then try the egg in the flour and butter milk mix into a paste, then pour slurry mould baking, and bake in the development process of mold design into small egg shape, very popular. For decades, egg waffles has spread across the streets of Hong Kong, one of the most iconic Hong Kong snacks.
The freshly baked egg waffles is crispy and golden. The bite is split into two layers, the upper layer is hollow and the lower layer is soft. Egg is delicious and milk flavour, both blend, making egg waffles on the street far can smell the fragrance, followed the seductive fragrance can find egg waffles.
Bubblewrap is always looking for ways to improve food quality and innovative recipes. Dedicated to the most sweet and unbeatable experience of the tongue. Here customers can enjoy custom-made eggs. From the base flavors, fill the small food, to the toppings. By participating in simple three-step combinations, customers get a unique and tasty egg. With each mouthful of Bubblewrap, you will not only be able to chew the authentic old Hong Kong flavor, but also experience the new creative formula that combines the infinite possibilities. Integrate food and culture. Bubblewrap has done so, giving the traditional Hong Kong cuisine a youthful vigour in this new age.
The Chinese food festival is a great experience that you can’t miss.
The date is:8-10 September 2017
Friday-Saturday 11:00 – 22:00
Sunday 11:00 – 18:00
References
Colson, M., 2013. Chinese Culture. Raintree.
Ng, K.C., 2006. The Chinese in London. Oxford University Press.
Potters Fields Park (by London City Hall)