World Food Market
Smells, Colours & Spice
The Belfast Mela will bring you on a literal food journey around the world. From India to China, from Thailand to Poland, from Spain to Mexico, our world food market has a little something for everyone resulting in a cultural culinary experience you will never forget.
Taste the World
‘Taste the World’ is the Belfast Mela’s Global Cookery Theatre featuring cultural cookery demostrations from local chefs and restaurants. Developed in partnership with Zen Restaurant, Lolita Indian Restaurant and Windrush Cuisine this exciting area will feature masterclasses in Indian, Japanese and Caribbean cookery using fresh local Northern Ireland produce.
Manju Malhi to Spice Up Mela 2011!
Manju split her childhood between North West London and India, and in her cooking has explored the flavours of the two nations with everything from ‘Baked Beans Balti’ to ‘Chutney Cucumber Sandwiches’. In 1999, she won the BCC Food and Drink competition and a chance to cook with Antony Worrall Thompson on TV. In 2001, Manju filmed her own TV series, ‘Simply Indian’ and followed this with her first book ‘Brit Spice’ in 2002. In 2004, she published ‘India with Passion’ and more recently in 2010 ‘Easy Indian’. Her foray into the world of gogglebox has taken her to India for a forty part series entitled ‘Cooking Isn’t Rocket Science’ for one of India’s leading broadcasters NDTV. She was preparing British cuisine for India – a reverse of what is generally know for in the United Kingdom!