About Me


Hello!
   

I am Yelly. I'm 30. I live in South London. I LOVE cooking, eating and reading about
FOOD.

My biggest passion is discovering new food on my travels and recreating them back at home.

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The other Tooting Chicken Shop

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Anyone who has recently moved outside of Zone 2 will know that there are certain areas estate agents push (and push) and whether you choose to believe their spiel about it being "an up and coming area" or "the next Shoreditch" is up to you. My past experience with a certain group of Coca-Cola supplying rahs, is that most of the time they are telling a load of rubbish and will almost certainl y drive you to an area you didn't ask for, for a price you didn't agree.     So it took me by surprise to find that actually, Tooting is pretty up and coming. I'd been to the Tram and Social before, but anyone who's walked the short walk between there and the station, knows that the choice of shops are really limited to Wilkos and a take-away chicken shop. But dig a little deeper and just around the corner you will find several trendy bars and a chicken shop of a different kind.  With a continuous stream of hungry customers forming an orderly queue ...
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Bibimbap Soho - my first taste of Korean food.

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Roasted cod and chorizo

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