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Homemade kimchi, fried chicken and more at Korean chef’s new eatery
A chef is using her knowledge about nutritional food to create traditional Korean dishes from her new deli and takeaway spot in Bristol.
Neatly stacked on shelves on both sides of the room inside Tiger Mum on Merton Road were jars of a range of food, fermenting – to be used later by chef Wizzy Chung for her many preparations.
For Wizzy, Tiger Mum is an ode to the cooking she grew up on, which was tasty, affordable, backed by “genuine information” and not limited only to momentary well-being.
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Shelves with jars of fermenting food were placed on both sides of the room
Wizzy’s first restaurant, Sky Kong Kong on Haymarket Walk, was an organic cafe specialising in dishes created from fresh, local and seasonal ingredients. After the restaurant closed, Wizzy moved to running pop-ups, with her most recent one being at Gallimaufry, not far away from her new restaurant.
For independent businesses like that of Wizzy’s, being part of Bristol’s street food scene sometimes proves expensive.
“I’ve been interested in the street food in all of Bristol. However, the organisers of these markets sometimes charge too much,” Wizzy said.
“We end up paying £50-200 just for a couple of hours. Which is why street food in Bristol is not cheap, because of the rental costs and the other charges involved.”
A table and a few chairs were set up outside the eatery ahead of its opening weekend
Now Wizzy hopes to change that with future plans to invite neighbouring independent businesses for a small street food market near her new restaurant on Merton Road.
She added: “There’s Laura’s Pizzas, there’s a burger and pizza place next door, there are vegan bakeries, and there’s FED around the corner as well.
“The idea is we invited them for a day, a nd sold a variety of food that is not expensive, then it’s going to be great.”
Wizzy points out that the difference between this market and other established markets – Temple Quay Market, Harbourside Market, Tobacco Factory Market and Finzels Reach Market – would be that their version would be independently organised without any formal organisers.
Tiger Mum is positioned opposite Laura’s Pizzas and adjacent to West Country Choppers’ biker cafe, only a short walk from Ashley Down railway station.
While plans were set to open the new site in the last week of July, Wizzy is now opening the deli and takeaway on Friday, sharing the limelight with the Balloon Fiesta.
Through the weekend, patrons can expect Wizzy’s homemade kimchi, which will be one of the many dishes served as part of ‘mum’s bapsang’ – the traditional name for a meal setting in Korea.
Tiger Mum will open for the first time on Friday and Saturday from 11.30am to 9pm, before opening regularly from Monday
All photos: Karen Johnson
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