Banh Mi at Boulangerie de Saigon

Boulangerie de Saigon, a Vietnamese Coffe shop, recently opened on Freckingham Street in Sneinton Avenues. It is being run by two sisters Aivi and Milly Nguyen inspired apparently by their grandmas street food stall in Vietnam. I do like the tastes of Vietnam so when I heard I was really keen to check them out…

Zaap Thai Market – Grab and Go Menu

Zaap Thai Market on Upper Parliment Street in Nottingham opened back in the Summer selling a good range of Asian Food products alongside Zaap Thai ready meals from the Zaap Thai Restaurant just around the corner. In the past I have restricted my purchases from this place to my not so secret guilty pleasure of…

Noodles and Dumplings at Kofuku House

Kofuku House down the bottom of Hockley is the latest Asian cafe to hit the streets of Nottingham. Run by owners Yammie Ng and Adrian Ning who plan to specialize in the traditional foods from Hong Kong keeping it as authentic as possible. I read that they ‘strongly recommend the beef brisket noodles’ which was…

WonderPho in Nottingham

WonderPho is the latest Vietnamese restaurant to open in Nottingham taking over the space formerly occupied by Oscar and Rosies on Thurland street. Owner Jade Nguyen and husband Jinhai Chen are the driving force behind the place and say that they would be offering ‘traditional foods such as Banh mi, Pho, slow cooked beef and…

Umai Oriental Street Food – Takeout

Umai Oriental Street Food Cafe in the Oriental Mart is a great place to pick up a bit of Asian Street Food. I have been here a lot and have blogged about them a couple of times already (read more here and here) If you collect and eat inside it is great value, but if…

Tasnack: Soup noodles and Tawainese Chicken

Tasnack is an Asian restaurant on Friar Lane specializing mainly in hot pots and rice noodles with a few side dishes such as Taiwanese fried chicken. It has recently re-opened or re-branded formerly being called ‘Your world’. I last visited this location back in Oct 2019 and had some hot pot noodles and then once…

Grounded Kitchen in West Bridgford

Grounded Kitchen selling ‘Korean inspired nutrient rich nourish bowls’ has just opened at Tudor Square in West Bridgford. Early reports were that the food was really tasty so I figured that I really should make an effort and check it out Before we get down to eat I am just going to say that I…

Hello Vietnam: Crispy Belly Pork and a Banh Mi

“Hello! Vietnam” is an Oriental Food Market and Vietnam Street Food Deli located at the top of Derby Road in Nottingham. I first stumbled across this place back at the end of 2019 where I bought some ‘harder to find’ ingredients to rustle up some Vietnamese inspired meals. While there I learned that they were…

Umai Oriental Street Food Cafe at Oriental Mart

  Umai Oriental Street Food Cafe has recently opened up at the back of the newly opened Oriental Mart on Goldsmith Street inside the Hydrogen building.  On their Facebook page they say that they will be serving ‘Bubble Tea & Oriental Street Food’ including ‘Some of the most well known & popular street food snacks…