How To Do Food At An Event
If I’d wanted I could have pre-ordered a Gordon Ramsey-styled picnic box, but as I’m a coeliac, it didn’t say if they were gluten-free or not, so I opted to buy at the event. This is the chicken kebab I had, which was certified by the chef who was cooking it as gluten-free.
Gluten-Free Chicken Kebab at Zoo Lates
It was delicious and the salad was fresh and not of the limp variety you tend to get in many places. They also gave me a discount because I didn’t want the pitta bread.
But it was only one of many varieties of fast food and drink, including Aspall Cyder on offer. There was for example this Korean stall.
Korean Fast Food at Zoo Lates
And even this splendidly politically incorrect one.
Buffalo and Ostrich at Zoo Lates
Sadly, there was no Cambodian for me. This is the only completely gluten-free cuisine in the world.
The food on offer did show how fast food should be done. You would have had to be very picky not to have found something you could have eaten.
Let’s hope the Olympics follow the lead set at the Zoo. But I bet they’ll produce the sort of stuff I can’t eat, like they do at Wembley Stadium.
The Anonymous Widower 
No deep fried spiders then?
Comment by liz | July 30, 2011 |
That and Cambodian was about all that was missing.
Comment by AnonW | July 30, 2011 |
They are apparently a Cambodian delicacy; I was doing an “All Age Interactive Activity” part of which took the form of “true/false” questions, one of which was “deep fried spiders taste like nuts”. I was surprised how many put their hand up for “true”! But apparently they taste like chicken. Here is part of a follow up article I wrote for the magazine because so many people seemed interested in the idea!
“Fried spiders are apparently a delicacy in parts of Cambodia, notably around the town of Skuon. It appears that during the war there people had to scavenge for food, and found that a particular type of spider was readily available and okay to eat when cooked. When I was looking for items for the true/false activity, I had been thinking we were talking about the sort of smallish spiders we have here in UK. However in Cambodia, they are talking about spiders the size of an adult palm. Although the war is now long over, the area has become renowned for the dish, and spiders are specially bred for the table. They are apparently a species of tarantula. The information I found all suggests they taste like chicken rather than nuts.”
Comment by liz | July 30, 2011 |