Welcome to Food Trotter, a new initiative dedicated to discovering the cultural wealth of the world through food exploration. Our world holds no boundaries and nothing connects us better than the foods that nourish us all. As such, I’d like to engage the online community in promoting cultural diversity one dish at a time. This is our chance to savour and experience the variety of flavours that are representative of our mosaic community and the foods that define global cultures.
Located in Toronto Canada, arguably the most diverse city in the world, we’ll explore global food and bring the relevance back home. We’ll write about food as it relates to culture, focusing on everyday meals accessible to everyone and information that is youthfully informative, entertaining, and humorous.
Food Trotter – Food Has No Boundaries…
Contributors:
Chicken Weng (Jing)
Jing is a food enthusiast with a gluttonous obsession. Spending his early years in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (arguably the best places to eat in the world!), he discovered an appreciation for food that would ultimately lead to his childhood obesity. After years of recovery, he channeled his energy into a Commerce degree at Queen’s University, traveled the globe to “find” himself, became more Chinese by learning Mandarin at Beijing University, and ate on the streets in China and South East Asia (yak meat anyone?). With his food prowess heightened, he worked in commodities risk management, tuning into the infinite wisdom of the market for oil, energy, and (ironically) foodstuff like wheat, sugar and orange juice. Throwing his financial modelling skills away, he quit and became an entrepreneur – thus a green company called Young Urban Farmers was born. Stressed, engaged, and about to wed, Jing is looking to escape reality by creating Food Trotter. With an emotional attachment to food, he hopes to learn more about the dishes he loves to eat, sharing this with the rest of the world. With a passion for travelling, food, multiculturalism, and entrepreneurship, he hopes that Food Trotter will become a growing hobby leading to the eventual goal of restaurant ownership.
MmMmmGood
Hello! My name is MmMmmGood and I’m thrilled to be a part of FoodTrotter! Discussions about food and travel are not a rarity for me, and it was during one of those not-so-uncommon food and travel conversations with Jing that we decided to collaborate on this website. Doesn’t everybody love having tips for where to travel and where to eat? I’m not just talking about “you must have high tea at Claridges if you visit London” or “make sure to eat some macrons when you visit Paris!” I’m talking “you’re travelling to Mexico? Make sure to eat the chorizo tostada at the little hole in the wall on the corner of X and X… it’s authentic, a hidden gem, and it won’t give you stomach problems later!” I’m talking “you’re travelling to Beijing and there are 5 different “famous” places for Peking duck? Well, you should visit this place if you’re looking for XXX and that place if you’re looking for XXX.” You can rest assured that here at FoodTrotter, we will freely share our knowledge and ever-so-valuable insider tips with you, the epicurean traveller. Likewise, we’re happy to have you partake in the foodie conversation and leave your tips for us! Welcome to FoodTrotter, the travelling foodie’s best friend.
Nom Nom
I AM OBSESSED about food. I’m a graduate student studying the geography of food; a food pornographer; a experimental cook; and will eat just about anything. After completing an undergraduate degree in Commerce, all I wanted to do was make some money and eat some food, but I was absolutely not going to work a desk job. So I said fuck you corporate world, and went from being a half-assed day trader, to an entrepreneur-grad student. Reading Pollan, Schlosser, and others, I took a shot in the dark and applied to graduate school to study geography. In my application I wrote three short stories (paragraphs really) about food, and the rest is history. My thesis looks at entrepreneurialism in the Vietnamese restaurant landscape in Toronto.
When I travel I like to seek out good cheap food because I find that the cheap restaurants often have more interesting stories behind them than high-end places. Chefs at these dive restaurants just want to feed people and make a few bucks, and that’s what restaurants should be about. There are so many stories that can be told through food – histories of the people, the cuisine, the places. Food brings people together, food has a life of it’s own, food is my first love.
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