Hitting up the Food Festival

 

Every year the “International Food Festival” hits up our campus. You know the type, food stalls filled with fatty, grilled and sweet food, a few games and some terrible rock music blaring non-stop. Every year we go, buy some overpriced crappy food and swear we’ll never go again. Until the next year comes.
As it is an “international food festival” they have treats from all over the world, especially Asia. Now that I actually have asian friends, I could get the scoop over what was real, and what was not. Turns out the Korean nian gao (a fried glutinous rice cake thing) does not taste like real Korean nian gao. The same went for the Korean tofu. But, my Korean friends said the Japanese meat sticks were delicious. So I asked my Japanese friend about it. His answer? “Never had it.” Oh well, I guess I’ll never know…
There wasn’t any western food, just one booth had something called a “Spanish pancake,” and while I’ve never been to Spain, I highly doubt the authenticity. But there was no pizza, no “american hot dogs,” or even friend dough. But, these stupid things are still fun, and even the crappy overpriced food is better than the really crappy, cheap cafeteria food. So I found myself at the food fair for a couple of my meals and ended up with a bunch of pictures. Hope you enjoy them.