Pre-Appetizers: The Food of the International Food Festival 2013

A worker dishes out chicken and andouille sausage gumbo (left), while a customer poses with frog legs and fries basket from the eighth-year vendor Rampagin' Cajun of Hurley, Wis.

K's Oriental Food has multiple chicken and rice dishes, as well as egg rolls and soup.

Irontown Pasties' minis. From left: chicken pot pie, traditional beef and apple cinnamon.

A customer gets a slice of BBQ chicken variety of their signature lavosh from the Butchie Boys/Toarmina's tent.

The International Food Fest kicked off another year at Lower Harbor park on Wednesday, July 3. MQT Social Scene went and munched around at each tent, owned by local  businesses or organizations.
Tokens are needed to buy items from the vendors and are available from the center tent.
The festival will continue until July 5.
Photos by Brice Burge

Above: MQT-based Eclectico, a string orchestra that plays versions of classic and modern rock and pop songs performs for a crowd on the stage at the West end of the park. Right: A shot of Lower Harbor from the Peninsula Bank parking garage shows the set up of the festival.

Left: The Thai House offers a vegetarian golden noodle, Asian doughnut, chicken, egg roll and pad thai. Right: Stucko's Pub and Grill brought their food truck and prepared a Chicago Style hot dog and chili cheese fries.