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Chinese pancakes from Piccadilly Gardens are Manchester's best kept street food secret
26.02.2022 - 11:47 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
It’s never going to fit in there, you think. Surely not. But every time, the giant stuffed Chinese answer to a crepe somehow manages to fold its way into the bag, before a plastic fork is jabbed unceremoniously into its innards.
I’ve been going to Gerry’s on Piccadilly Gardens for a few years now, generally alternating between the belly pork bahn mi at Viet Shack in the Arndale Centre’s market hall, and the scorching jianbing from Gerry’s when I’m seeking ‘walking food’.
But every time it still astounds me - considering how much is going on - that a pancake which must measure at least 15 inches across gets into the seemingly tiny bag, like culinary origami.
Gerry’s was originally an ice cream van, but was taken over by the noodle and jianbing makers quite some years ago now. They appear not to have got round to changing the livery yet. Red lanterns hang from the awning, so that's a bit of a giveaway, I suppose.
Let’s put it this way, they haven’t been serving jianbing and noodles to the populace of Manchester since 1898, as mentioned on the sign. More’s the pity, really.
Time was, ‘street food’ wasn’t a term of endearment, least of all an enduring hospitality industry trend. Rather it was something you'd find abandoned beside an overflowing bin.
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And while the chaat carts of South India and night markets of Bangkok put the British culture of street food quite rightly in the shade - such is the quality of the latter that some apartments in the city are sold without a kitchen - there are still echoes of the old days of that original ‘street food’ on Market Street.
There’s Scappaticci’s ice cream truck, which was
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