
LSF On Tour: ordering a hot pot in 8 seconds at Singapore’s People’s Park Food Complex
8.45pm and a woman is talking at me, urging me to decide what I want to order for my hot pot. Things happen fast around here. “Lady, do you want meat? Fish? Vegetables? Which ones? Tell me quick!” Sensing the urgency, yet not speaking the language, I pick at random. Greens feature highly, as do pieces […]

LSF On Tour: Trang street food market, Southern Thailand
Once you’ve been to a Southern Thai food market with Saiphin Moore and her son Richard, you never forget it. On the day we – another food journalist Mike, a photographer and some of Saiphin’s staff (she’s the co-founder of London’s growing Thai restaurant chain, Rosa’s Thai Cafe) – visited Talad Sod Thetsabin market in […]
Tags: fish, pork, sausages, snack, street food market, Thai, vegetables
London Street Foodie On Tour: Malaysian street food in Edinburgh
“How are you?” “I’m fine.” That response doesn’t really mean anything, does it? It can be a quick way out of having to go into detail about how everyone is doing your head in at the moment or how things are going swimmingly; it can be a defense mechanism to cover up melancholy or anger. […]
Tags: curry, Malaysian, Markets, rice, spice, stew, Vans
London Street Foodie On Tour: the best festival food highlights at Wilderness Festival
It’s a tricky thing blending fine dining with street food, art, dance, comedy, partying, philosophy, crafts, parents, kids games, and more. But I’d say that at Wilderness they got it bang on last weekend. I went for the first time this year, thinking it was just going to be a load of people having banquets […]
Tags: BBQ, burgers, cheese, chips, cured meat, Festivals, fried chicken, Mac n cheese, meat, pudding, rice, tacos, tagine, veggie
London Street Foodie on Tour: festival street food
Glasto what Glasto? Bog off with your oh-so-uhmazing stories of getting lost in a field with glitter on your face… we’re onto other festivals now. Well. Hear me out. Anyone who reads this blog will know that I have an aversion to music festival planners who don’t seem to pay any attention to the food […]
Tags: British Street Food Awards, burritos, Festivals, fish, meat, pulled pork, salad, Vans, vegan, vegetarian
LSF on tour: finding Turkish street food down a back alley in Istanbul
Last week my incredibly talented artist cousin/close friend/ultimate dance partner Daisy Perkins – who having just left Pakistan is currently sketching her way round Istanbul – sent me a message. It said: “I just had the best fresh fish street food wrap that I think exists! It’s made with a lorra love (and a lorra time!) by this […]
Tags: fish, sandwich, Stalls, wraps
Round the world through London street food: memories of 2015
‘When we eat, we travel,’ wrote fellow food writer and friend Mina Holland in her book The Edible Atlas. I’ve thought about that a lot since then, and especially in relation to this blog, because in London we are so lucky to be able to eat food from countries as close by as France or Spain, […]
Tags: barbecue, beef, fried chicken, Indian, meat, noodles, Pop Brixton, Street Feast, Vietnamese
Young British Foodie Awards: London street food heats part II
So on Sunday I told you all about the first four of the eight nominated street food traders, who were judged outside the Tate Britain a few weeks ago. Today, I give you the final four. Tonight will be a big celebration for those who will be crowned as this year’s Young British Foodies, and […]
Tags: dumplings, fish, meat, offal, pie, pork, sandwich
Young British Foodies: London street food heats part 1
Last month I was invited, with my street food hat on, to observe the judging day for those nominated in the street food category for the Young British Foodie Awards, the results of which will be broadcasted from the @YBFs twitter feed during their awards ceremony on Tuesday 15th September 2015. Here is what happened… […]
Tags: Award, brownies, burgers, fish, ice cream, meat, pie, ribs, sausages, Stalls, Vans, Young British Foodies
London Street Foodie on tour: visiting Peugeot’s new food truck in Paris
It is early April and I am in Paris, standing inside Carreau de Temple, a colossal mid-nineteenth century steel and glass structure that used to be one of the city’s largest traditional covered markets and what is now used to host cultural events. In front […]
Tags: burgers, Paris street food, salad