Street food for thought

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.

Yesterday, Cork’s Ballincollig commuter town saw the opening of a new, very large McDonald’s Drive-Thru restaurant, while just 200 yards away at the very heart of the new/redeveloped Ballincollig Town Centre, fast-growing Ramen Asian Street Food opened its third Irish/Cork outlet, seemingly on a way to world domination, and at a time when Asian-inspired eateries are proliferating across Cork city and suburbs.

Other Asian Street Food-oriented openings by other proprietors/chefs include Careys Lane, Douglas Street, South Main Street next to Wagamamas, Ballincollig (2) and Oliver Plunkett Street – now likely to be dubbed Oliver Phuket Street by the same wags who came up with ‘Ramencollig.’