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Alaska State Fair Food Guide: Seafood, Yup’ik Fry Bread & Fried Peaches
A flexible food guide to the Alaska State Fair in Palmer, not a reconstruction of a fixed daily itinerary. Check current fair dates, vendor availability and the grounds map before visiting; individual stalls may move. T…
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A flexible food guide to the Alaska State Fair in Palmer, not a reconstruction of a fixed daily itinerary. Check current fair dates, vendor availability and the grounds map before visiting; individual stalls may move. The listed prices are the amounts shown during the visit, not current menu guarantees.
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**Oysters:** Fresh Alaskan Oysters, also introduced as the Oyster Hut, serves oysters from a farm near Whittier. Try them raw with lemon, red wine mignonette or hot sauce; the raw serving was $16. The cooked version, topped with serrano sour cream sauce and pepper, was $29. The vendor said the fair sells about 40,000 oysters. **Fish and crab:** Fish On! Camp Grill charcoal-grills salmon from the Kenai area. The $90 grilled salmon plate came with rice and fried halibut; fried salmon was also off…
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Alaska State FairAlaska State Fairgrounds, 2075 Glenn Hwy, Palmer, Alaska
**Alaska Crab Shack:** Try the crab cakes made with Alaska snow, bairdi and brown crab, panko, seasonings and pimiento; a bucket of 15 was $25. Five deep-fried bacon-wrapped scallops, made with scallops from Prince William Sound, were $17 and came with homemade dill tartar sauce. This pin marks the fairgrounds; use the current grounds map to locate the stall.