{"id":24166,"date":"2014-11-18T13:06:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T13:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=24166"},"modified":"2014-11-18T13:06:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T13:06:32","slug":"continental-christmas-food-wows-cardiff-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/11\/18\/continental-christmas-food-wows-cardiff-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas deli wows Cardiff customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Cardiff delicatessen has seen customers go crazy for continental Christmas food, over 70 years after the store\u2019s founders fled Nazi Europe. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24171\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Wallys-480x312-wk8-food.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24171\" alt=\"Wally's 480x312 wk8 food\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Wallys-480x312-wk8-food.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Wallys-480x312-wk8-food.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Wallys-480x312-wk8-food-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24171\" alt=\"Wally's 480x312 wk8 food\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Wallys-480x312-wk8-food.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Wallys-480x312-wk8-food.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Wallys-480x312-wk8-food-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Wally&#8217;s Delicatessen is always a delight for children to visit, as the shelves are stacked high with brightly coloured Christmas boxes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wally\u2019s Delicatessen, Royal Arcade, has seen a huge demand for their Christmas produce, selling everything from Italian panettone to German stollen.<\/p>\n<p>The Salamon family abandoned their Austrian delicatessen when war broke out, re-opening their business in Cardiff in 1947.<\/p>\n<p>A far cry from war-torn Europe, the store is a popular meeting place for ethnic minorities, while the team hopes their Christmas products will secure customer loyalty all year.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Steven Salamon said, \u201cWally\u2019s Delicatessen provides great gifts because, instead of locally sourced food, we import authentic products that are unavailable in supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elderly people who visited when they were young now bring their own grandchildren Christmas shopping.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24172\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Austrian-shop-wk-8-food.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24172\" alt=\"Austrian shop wk 8 food\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Austrian-shop-wk-8-food.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Austrian-shop-wk-8-food.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Austrian-shop-wk-8-food-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24172\" alt=\"Austrian shop wk 8 food\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Austrian-shop-wk-8-food.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Austrian-shop-wk-8-food.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/11\/Austrian-shop-wk-8-food-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Wally and his two brothers are sitting on the steps of the Austrian family store with their mother. 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