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( Tuesday, August 4, 2009 The Courier-Mail )
Ekka food is not about a quick-fix feast of favourites. Manufacturers and caterers also use the show to promote their wares. Samples make a meal of themselves, with goodies on offer including cheese, oils, nuts, tea, wine and a virtual shopping list of condiments. And while it may seem a bit of a contradiction, the catering arm of fine-dining restaurant Bretts Wharf – which is famous for its seafood – will open a restaurant in the AgForce MEATing Centre.
“It is ‘proper’ dining at the MEATing Centre – restaurant food served to the tables and ‘real food’, nothing processed,” a spokeswoman says.
She says it’s a chance for the restaurant to show off its prowess in preparing meat.
Dishes will include Goondiwindi lamb salad with green beans, organic yoghurt and tomato and chilli jam ($14.9); peppered, 200g eye fillet with Colcannon potatoes and Shiraz jus ($34.50), and; Eaton mess – Queensland strawberries, Chantilly cream, Strawberry coulis and meringue ($13.50). A takeaway menu is also available.
Stuff your face for great prizes
STUFFING your face could score you an LCD TV. Who says gluttony doesn’t pay? International Food Village organiser Tony Hee says at this year’s Ekka, eating competitions will be held twice daily from Friday, August 7 in the village. Prizes include the TV, a $3000 DiBella coffee machine, tickets to Brisbane’s Octoberfest 2009, and dinner vouchers for local restaurants. Hee says some people take the contest very seriously.
“Some of them don’t have anything to eat for breakfast or lunch, and they wait to compete in the final hours of the competition,” he says. During the eat-off, contestants sit along tables packed with a mishmash of international foods, such as sushi, burgers, poffertjes, nachos, and German sausages. The winner is the person who eats the most within the time limit, culminating in a finals round on August 15 at 3pm.
“The finalists are given free entry tickets and have to come back to the Ekka with a partner on the Saturday. Why? Because their partners have to put a blindfold across their eyes, stand behind the contestant and feed them. It is very funny as some of the food goes into their noses and ears. They have to be quick or they lose.
“Oh, by the way, chilli is a major problem here. But we only mention that when hungry mouths are onstage, ready to be fed.”
Cuisine of Many Nations
Eight nations will be represented in a new multicultural cuisine area at this year’s Ekka.
It is now eight weeks until the start of the 2004 Royal Queensland Show, which will run from August 5-14. RNA chief executive Jonathan Tunny said the main food houses at the Ekka International Village would be Sate House (Indonesian), Spaghetti Junction (Italian), Sultans’ Kitchen (Indian), La Paella (Spanish), Corn on the Cob (USA), Mexican Canteen (Mexican), Langos (Hungarian) and Danny’s Baked Potato (English). He said there also would be tai chi and Brazilian dancing demonstrations, a spaghetti slurping competition, a corn-on-the-cob eating competition and a chill-eating competition. A Chinese Lion and martial artist demonstrations will feature in the Village’s official opening on August 7 at 11am.
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