A Taste of Edmonton

Last night Carla and I (and two of Carla's friends from work) went downtown to get some yummy food at the "A Taste of Edmonton" festival. This is sort the equivalent of the "Folk Fest" held in Victoria each summer. Instead of having stands with various international foods however, they have stands from 40 different restaurants in Edmonton. Each one offers a "savory" dish and a "sweet" dish. Admission is free (unlike the Folk Fest in the past couple of years), and all you have to do is buy some tickets which you trade in for food!

The festival grounds were packed, pretty much shoulder to shoulder in

Ginger beef, Cappucino Chocolate Shooter, Green Onion Cakes...

the main strip. A number of stages were set up with musicians playing various cover tunes (I think one guy was a Johnny Cash impersonator). Carla and I made a bee-line for the stand selling Ginger Beef -- our favourite Americanized asian dish ever. We quickly followed that up with a Cappucino Chocolate Shooter (some sort of giant truffle). Wandering around we cooled off, dipping our feet in the fountain and sat around listening to the second-rate folk music acts (what can I say? I'm a music snob...).

At the Folk Fest in Vic, the most popular item is the Hungarian Langos. Here, however, the longest line is for the Green Onion Cakes from some random chinese place. So we had to line up for those. They were amazing -- much better than you would think. Served with sour cream and super hot sauce.... mmmmmmmm...

Our last dish was a Tropical Gelati from some Italian restaurant. It was cold, but nothing special as far as Gelati goes. We'll be heading back for more food later in the week, because we still have a bunch of tickets left!!