Saskabush

Greetings!

I ventured out to Saskatoon for Folkfest this last weekend. Great weather, awesome relatives and really fun times. Here's a recap:

"The Pavilions"

Thursday night
1. Caribbean - steel drums and neat merchandise along with some cool dancers. We tried the Jamacian Jerk Chicken, Beef roti and coconut tart.


2. Philippines - no performances while we were there. Had homemade mango ice cream from Homestead ice cream. So good it had chunks of mango in it

3. Scottish - awesome highland dancers, really good homemade shortbread

4. Ukraine - didn't have any of the food there because we can make it all at home! Really authentic merch and lots of people

5. Greek - they had coins from each emperor dated 300 bc and earlier which was really cool. Had the best honey donut things. Probably my favorite food I had

6. German - their pavilion burnt down last year so they were outside. Had a cool pole with the decorative strings and nice stage. The brass band played edelwiess and the costumes were very authentic as well. I loved the calf warmer things. LOL. We had apple strudel which was okay but wanted some schnitzel but we were way to full.


7. Irish - good dancers - more of a tap dancing style. We tried the potato soup which was okay, but not great.

8. Norway - probably my favorite one overall. Got an airbrush tattoo with Norway flag colors - red/blue/red, had krumbkake which was sosososo good (glorified waffle cone). They had lots of variety of food including tons of dessert waffle like things. It had a real homey feeling to it and we wished that we could have seen some dancers, but we were there too late.

9. Australia/New Zealand - there was little decoration, food sold out and lack of entertainment at this pavilion

10. India - honestly I didn't like it at all because I felt like I was back in BC

Friday

11. Hispanic - little did I know that Hispanic by definition meant all spanish speaking countries so it included mexico, latin america, south america and spain. They had a great program of songs and dance for each country. I bought a purse from ecuador. We ate ice cream, empanadas and tamales.

12. Peru - they made an even better tamale here as well as some dish with potatoes and creamed chicken sauce and INCA cola. It tasted like cream soda and was so good.

13. Indian/Metis - we had both fried and baked bannoc with fresh homemade strawberry and saskatoon berry preserves. The wild rice and smoked salmon was also very good. They did that ring dance and some other festive dancing.

14. Hungary - the menu was quite vast and they had elephant ears however the building was way too small and busy so we left right away.

15. Asia Pacific - once again I felt like I was back in BC and so we didn't stay long

16. Brazil - I bought some coconut almond tea as well as some coffee candy which tasted amazing. The atmosphere was quite cool and the dancers were pretty good too.

17. Sudan - this pavilion was super awesome and probably the more that I think about it was my favorite! I love Africa and all the things that they had made and were selling were so cool and creative. I tried this baglawa dish which was basically baklava and they had other food which looked good. Then Grandma's friend Saba was making coffee which she roasted from green pods to black coffee beans. She then melted them with water on a pot and then poured it, filtered by what looked like straw into our little shot like cups. It was amazingly good!!!!!!!!!!!!!


18. Riderville - the saskatchewan roughrider based pavilion was all green and very festive. I had a taco in a bag which I had never heard of before but was doritos crushed up and all the ingredients of tacos right in the bag you ate out of. It was sosososo good. The music was country and the atmosphere was really great. I loved it!

Well that's a long recap but thought I would share what each pavilion was about!

Later days!