I have to do regular courses in Manchester city centre at weekends for my day job, this normally means catching a quick sandwich from a supermarket. This is as tasty as it sounds, which is not very, so it was very pleasant to be able to go to the MFDF Festival tent this weekend.
So I had some starters and ginger chicken from Chaophraya. The prawn toast was the best that I have ever tasted, it was thin diagonally sliced baguette with prawn and sesame thickly layered on top and all deep fried. The chicken satay was really great both fresh and tasty, the meat just fell off the stick. The Ginger Chicken was excellent although it appeared that there was the same blurring of the lines between chicken and turkey that the wife is very fond of. The chicken was full of fresh ginger and chillies so it had a quite pleasant punch of heat.
It was only a shame that I had to go back to the course because the beer tent next door was full of interesting beers that would have worked excellently with the Thai food. I think that I would have headed for the All Gates California, an excellent straw coloured beer.
Tags: Food Festival, Manchester