Choccywoccydoodah Say It With Cake

Choccywoccydoodah are back exclusively on the Good Food channel, weeknights at 9pm from Monday 2nd July for a new series of chocolate mischief and mayhem with even more glitz, glamour, celebrities and of course spectacular cake designs.
The Choccywoccydoodah team has recorded a single called ‘Say it with Cake’ featuring the Brighton and Hove gay male choir as well as the odd celebrity including David Hasslehoff, Brian May, Tara Palmer Tomkinson, and the cast of the West End musical, Wicked!

Please have a look at its video!

This third series of the hugely popular observational documentary sees business booming as the orders for Choccywoccydoodah’s inspiring and outlandish cakes continue to roll in. The pressure is on as the team has to create a stag’s head inspired cake to be auctioned at a showbiz charity fundraiser, attended by A-listers including Ronnie Wood and Manolo Blahnik. The cameras will also be rolling to showcase the team’s unconventional lives as they attend a whirl of society events and glamorous parties, and meet the great and the good, from royal dignitaries to celebrities, delivering cakes and chocolate treats along the way.

Choccywoccydoodah is new and exclusive to Good Food weeknights at 9pm from Monday 2nd July (Sky / HD 247, Virgin 260)

MEATmarket

If you want a quick fix on your weekly or monthly burger cravings, then you should definitely drop by MEATmarket (MM) in Covent Garden.
Being the sister of MEATliquor, you can expect quality of the burgers at MM. Only MM is faster (order, sit and eat) and with a smaller menu, you don't actually need to spare 10 minutes deciding.
MM is located above The Jubilee Market in the heart of Covent Garden (designated entrance on Tavistock Street), overlooking many installs occupied by tourists. Inside, you will find long benches with stools, with an open kitchen.
The menu is small but it is enough for a pseudo fast food joint. It offers variation of beef patties burgers, dogs, sides and shakes.

 

We ordered a Dead Hippie (2 beef patties, lettuce, cheese, pickles, minced white onion and dead hippie sauce) // Philly Cheesesteak (shaved rump steak, cheese, peppers and onions) // Poppaz (Jalapenos and cheese with ranch dressing) and bottomless soda.

 The Dead Hippie is similar to a Big Mac, but with their special Dead Hippie sauce, it makes sure that the burger stays juicy while you indulge it. The beef patties have been marinated well and deserve to be the stars of the burgers. The Philly Cheesesteak is very filling, though it seems to be in normal size; once you bite into it, your mouth is filled with cheese, steak and peppers all well balanced together.

I actually wanted to order the Corn Puppies (mini corn dogs), but they have been too popular that MM has actually ran out of them! However, the crispy Poppaz were not disappointing either. Even though personally I am not a big fan of cheese, but the flavour of the Jalapenos managed to come through the cheese.

All in all, MM is the place to go to for burgers. However, it does come as a little bit more expensive than other burger joints (Byron, McDonalds etc).

Food rating: 8.5/10

Budget rating: 7/10

MEATmarket

The Deck

Jubilee Market Hall

(entrance on Tavistock Street)

WC2E 8BE

Asadal

Over the weekend, we had a craving for Korean cuisine. Our usual "go-to" restaurants would be Koba, Arang or Arirang, but all of those would be full without reservation on a Saturday evening. After a long walk (working our appetites), we went to Asadal, located next to Holborn tube station.

I had heard good reviews from my native Korean friends and they said that it is really good and authentic.

The restaurant is located at the basement, and once you are downstairs, you will see a spacious dining area with partitions dividing in between various tables.

The menu is quite comprehensive with a few odd Japanese-Korean fusion food options as well.
We ordered our favourite Yuk Hwae - Raw beef slices with pears and egg yolk; Fried sliced fish cakes and rice cakes in a spicy sauce; Spicy tofu and seafood and egg casserole and Sashimi salad with rice.

 All in all, the food was average, our favourite was the Tofu casserole - very hearty and spicy, packed with flavours. Asadal has not won us over from our favourite Korean restaurants in London, but it was a new pleasant try.

Budget rating: 7/10
Food rating: 7/10

Asadal
227 High Holborn
WC1V 7DA 

Food Festival of the World @ Southbank Centre

Despite the traffic due to the Jubilee pageant, I managed to visit the Street Food Festival at Southbank Centre over the long weekend. I didn't stay for long, because of the weather (non stop rain) which completely took the fun away of this festival.

There were many stalls selling and promoting their own various products and range of food, however, maybe due to the weather (stalls were outdoors), there were less stalls than I had anticipated. I really do hope it is down to the weather. It would have been a good food festival offering a wide range of food.