Weekend market regulars might already have spotted the queues forming around Chubby Dumpling, a father-and-daughter-run food truck serving Hong Kong-style dumplings across South East and East London.
Founded by Joe and Chantel Yeung, the business has grown from a family kitchen ritual into one of the more talked-about stalls on the market circuit. The name comes from Chantel's childhood nickname (apparently earned after enthusiastically working her way through dumplings at her dad's restaurant), and the concept is simple – proper, family-recipe dumplings.
You'll find them at Brockley Market on Saturdays and Victoria Park Market on Sundays, operating out of a fire truck that's hard to miss. They'll be serving their menu of classic pork and onion dumplings, alongside chicken with shiitake mushrooms, and prawns with bamboo shoots. For plant-based people, the butternut squash with cashew and the mushroom with chestnut dumplings have developed something of a following, often selling out before the markets wrap up.
Everything is made using Joe's recipes, which draw on his upbringing in Hong Kong, while Chantel brings the street food vibes. They've also recently expanded into supper clubs and pop-ups, but the markets are still where the heart of it is.