knife & fork in the road » Adelaide Festival Centre http://knifeandforkintheroad.com The nom de blog of Jane Paech Tue, 10 Jul 2018 02:20:38 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 On the Moon Lantern Festival http://knifeandforkintheroad.com/2013/09/19/on-the-moon-lantern-festival/ http://knifeandforkintheroad.com/2013/09/19/on-the-moon-lantern-festival/#comments Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:43:01 +0000 http://knifeandforkintheroad.wordpress.com/?p=883 Tonight, I was going to write about OzAsia’s Moon Lantern Festival 2013. Under the light of a full moon, it promised to be a very special event at Elder Park on the River Torrens with food stalls, performances, fireworks and a parade of astonishingly beautiful glowing lanterns. Unfortunately, due to rain and 70 km/hr gusts of wind, the Continue Reading

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]]> Tonight, I was going to write about OzAsia’s Moon Lantern Festival 2013. Under the light of a full moon, it promised to be a very special event at Elder Park on the River Torrens with food stalls, performances, fireworks and a parade of astonishingly beautiful glowing lanterns. Unfortunately, due to rain and 70 km/hr gusts of wind, the event (which stems from Asian mid-Autumn harvest festivities) was cancelled in the 11th hour; an incredibly disappointing outcome for the community groups and schools who put so much hard work and effort into the lead up. With marquees nearly taking off across the park and fragile paper lanterns destroyed, it is the first time in the history of the festival that it has been cancelled.

I can only imagine how flat the team who have put their heart and soul into organising this event for the past five months must be feeling. This includes my daughter Georgi who was so looking forward to seeing the evening unfold. Désolé ma chérie.

The gunpowder was let off without the fireworks and only one lantern was lit, the very last, just as it was packed away.

I think it deserves to be seen.

The Rolla Bolla Lantern built for Cirkidz and United Care Wesley. Photo: Georgi Paech

The Rolla Bolla Lantern built for Cirkidz & United Care Wesley. Photo: Georgi Paech

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]]> http://knifeandforkintheroad.com/2013/09/19/on-the-moon-lantern-festival/feed/ 1 On Food Trucks & Fork on the Road http://knifeandforkintheroad.com/2013/04/29/on-food-trucks-fork-on-the-road/ http://knifeandforkintheroad.com/2013/04/29/on-food-trucks-fork-on-the-road/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:40:26 +0000 http://knifeandforkintheroad.wordpress.com/?p=265 Food trucks are becoming enormously popular in Adelaide. Parked in temporary locations all over the city, the colourful, quirky fleet provides locals and visitors with an interesting array of high quality food and drink, and adds vibrancy to our streets. These mobile food vendors are part of Splash Adelaide, an initiative of the Adelaide City Continue Reading

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]]> Food trucks are becoming enormously popular in Adelaide. Parked in temporary locations all over the city, the colourful, quirky fleet provides locals and visitors with an interesting array of high quality food and drink, and adds vibrancy to our streets. These mobile food vendors are part of Splash Adelaide, an initiative of the Adelaide City Council that ‘aims to bring our laneways, unused spaces and city streets to life’. The campaign, currently in its second season, is experimenting with a number of exciting urban projects from night markets to pop-up entertainment and performances in public places.

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Every month, a collection of the city’s food trucks, vans, bikes and stalls gather for Fork on the Road, a celebration of Adelaide’s growing food truck culture and street food scene. The event offers a great opportunity to sample different cuisines in a festive atmosphere and there’s a wide variety of tastes and experiences.

IMG_4489Yesterday, the trucks converged outside the Adelaide Festival Centre in the heart of the city, a venue that offers a diverse program of performances and exhibitions throughout the year. It also happened to be the preview of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Centre and I met up with Georgi and Ben for lunch before they went to the show.

The air was swirling with wonderful aromas, giving us an appetite as we wandered around the trucks deciding what to choose. A long queue waited patiently for Coorong Angus beef burgers at Burger Theory, one of the most popular food trucks, while next door Raw Thirst was busy keeping up with the demand for beautiful fresh juices.

IMG_4508We stumbled upon Taiwanese chicken nuggets, gourmet Argentinian food at Chimichurri Grill, homemade lemonade, Mexican tacos and German wieners. The giant, steaming pans of paella at Taste of Spain looked so delicious that I couldn’t resist, with a choice of chicken and chorizo, or seafood.

Ben with his pulled pork sandwich

Ben with his pulled pork sandwich

Georgi opted for a vegetable fritter with lemon myrtle, caramelised onion and salad from Conscious Lifestyles, a stall specialising in wild, native and local food, while Ben tucked into a seriously good pulled pork sandwich from the Little Big Cheese Company. The pork shoulder is smoked over a wood fire for 16 hours and topped with King Island smoked cheddar, house made apple cider slaw and BBQ sauce.

There was also a sprinkling of sweet treats. With the crowd growing, we snapped up a brownie from Four Seeds, a chocolate tart and a berry cupcake along with some coffee from Fair Espresso, and drank up the vibrant scene.

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