Hot spicy food - by way of a fourth Ramen Asian street food restaurant - is set to ok up next to an Iceland store, in East Cork’s Midleton Distillery Lane’s €30m development.

If the €650,000 asking price on 25 Limeworth is out of many family-buying budgets, agents Sherry FitzGerald have another three-storey local offer for exactly half the price - a four-bed mid-terraced home at 35 Leslies Arch, guiding €325,000.

IF an army marches on its stomach, and an economy on its retail and restaurant expansion, then things are clearly picking up in Cork - with knives, forks and chopsticks at the ready in the ‘Asian Street Feud’ moves.

It’s fast food in more ways than one — Cork Asian street food company Ramen has opened its second Cork outlet at Dennehy’s Cross, doing a key restaurant unit deal with UK-based Comer brothers.

Friends, family and work colleagues of two Cork-based Malaysian chefs feared the men had died in Thursday’s doomed MH17 flight — only to get confirmation almost 24 hours later that the two men had actually travelled home to Kuala Lumpur on a different carrier.

It has emerged that two Cork-based chefs switched their flight from the downed Malaysia Airways flight MH17 to save €400, inadvertently saving their lives.

TWO new exciting eateries have opened in Cork in recent months; both are off the beaten track.