Food and drink you discovered on holiday

[polly]

It's really lovely. Way nicer than I expected it to be. I guess it's just normal tea, steeped with some fresh sage and taken with lots of sugar.

I was going to ask what's in it! So black tea and sage you reckon? Sounds so nice.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

No me either. I suspect part of it is ingredients - difficult to obtain, especially fresh and/or expensive. No one is going to spend £30 on a dish you can buy in any hole in the wall place. Same as anywhere I suppose - the fruit and veg you get here, like tomatoes, are a pale imitation of the stuff you can get in Spain or Italy or Greece.

I've given up on Thai food in the UK. I'm sure it's fantastic in Thailand, but it's only ever felt average at best when I've had it here. In fact, the stuff I make at home with the Mae Ploy pastes is as good as stuff I've paid for in restaurants.

 

[shifting gears]

Ooh yeah good call, though I usually had the Fanta Limon with vodka in it!

Gave me an Ibiza flashback that, a week of E’s washed down with vodka limons until being struck down with diabolical acid reflux, good times

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I was going to ask what's in it! So black tea and sage you reckon? Sounds so nice.

I think so. That's what it tasted like anyway.

 

[shakespearegirl]

Vietnamese food is some of the best I've had on holiday. Have never found it as good outside of Vietnam.

There was plenty of Vietnamese food in the early 90s in Oz, I wasn’t a massive fan. Maybe wrong ingredients or cheap ingredients. Wasn’t particularly fussed about going to Vietnam but was blown away by the food.

 

[Epona]

Interesting! I have so much sage in my garden I've been wondering what to do with it. There are lots of different types of sage though!

I went through a few bouts of tonsillitis a couple of decades ago, and used to make a red sage tea with honey, very soothing for a sore throat.

 

[Mattym]

German bread generally. All the different kinds. Why can't we have nice things like that?

Also Danish bread- Lagkagehuset Rye bread is my absolute fave.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

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Ocado

Cheers. That's made my day!

 

[Winot]

No me either. I suspect part of it is ingredients - difficult to obtain, especially fresh and/or expensive. No one is going to spend £30 on a dish you can buy in any hole in the wall place. Same as anywhere I suppose - the fruit and veg you get here, like tomatoes, are a pale imitation of the stuff you can get in Spain or Italy or Greece.

Yes - particularly the amazing mint.

 

[Cloo]

Spain has the best tomatoes I've ever tasted. Seldom found as good here.

 

[A380]

Sandwiches in Japanese convenience stores. With this hugely artificial white sliced bread. Got addicted to them.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Spain has the best tomatoes I've ever tasted. Seldom found as good here.

You can get good tomatoes here if you grow them, but thats only for a month or two of the year, or if you buy Organic from a small grocer which costs a fucking mint.

 

[porp]

A simple thing from Pakistan.

Buying oranges from a stall, the vendor would cut them in half and offer a tiny packet of powdered salt to sprinkle on. So refreshing.

 

[Epona]

A simple thing from Pakistan.

Buying oranges from a stall, the vendor would cut them in half and offer a tiny packet of powdered salt to sprinkle on. So refreshing.

Easy electrolyte drink

 

[oryx]

Kasteel Rouge (in Lille) and Chouffe (in Antwerp).

Supermarket sushi, before it was a thing here (in Seattle, not in Japan, which I've always wanted to visit but haven't!).

 

[Humberto]

Alioli

 

[Mrs Miggins]

A simple thing from Pakistan.

Buying oranges from a stall, the vendor would cut them in half and offer a tiny packet of powdered salt to sprinkle on. So refreshing.

Similarly....in Cambodia....vendors selling sliced pineapple with a little bag of salt and chilli powder to dip it into. A taste revelation!

 

[shakespearegirl]

Similarly....in Cambodia....vendors selling sliced pineapple with a little bag of salt and chilli powder to dip it into. A taste revelation!

I love this!

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

Currywurst. My first time in Berlin and oh my days. I have a favourite imbiss to get it from now, Curry 36 next to Bahnhof Zoo. I've tried imitations here but they're not the same

I've been to Berlin twice, currywurst and doner kebabs from open counters with a few tables to stand up at was all i ever ate when there. I fondly used to Curry 36 the first time i was there, lovely stuff. I tried to recreate Currywurst with Aldi Bratwurst with ketchup and curry powder poured over it and i really shouldn't have bothered, it was rank.

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

These things were quite popular in the 7/11's in Thailand. A 50p toastie made by the staff in a lovely cold air conditioned convenience store.

 

[Orang Utan]

These things were quite popular in the 7/11's in Thailand. A 50p toastie made by the staff in a lovely cold air conditioned convenience store.


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Do you mean ‘heated up’ instead of ‘made’?

 

[what]

Andouillette sausages in France
Absolutely disgusting

 

[what]

Chilled fried grasshoppers in Mexico
Surprisingly good

 

[what]

Pinxtos in the basque country
Fantastic

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

Do you mean ‘heated up’ instead of ‘made’?

The shop person would make it hot by heating it up.

 

[pinkmonkey]

I've given up on Thai food in the UK. I'm sure it's fantastic .

A girl in my year at school worked in Japan and met and married a Thai man, they have two grown up girls, now. They have an on-off relationship and he's in the UK sporadically, when he's here he does the food at the local pub and it's some of the best Thai I've had here, he also makes a better roast and Yorkshires than most people I know!

 

[pinkmonkey]

My favourite German food has to be Bratkartoffeln - basically a sausage and fried potatoes, you can get the spuds in Lidl. (Look for Sauteed Potatoes) But they never taste quite the same as when they're cooked by a middle aged German woman in a pinny, in a giant cast iron pan on a stall.

 

[baldrick]

Your potato dish reminds me pinkmonkey of tartiflette that I once had in the alps. Potatoes, cheese and lardons. Heaven.

I didn't understand why the food portions were so massive everywhere in Chamonix - to my shame I thought it was because of the influx of Americans

And then I spent a very long day in the mountains.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’ve never had tartiflette in France/the Alps. Have only made it or bought it from a posh farmer’s market. It is one of my favourite things to eat. I can only imagine how amazing it must taste, especially after day out in the snowy Alps.

 

[Lotte]

Cacio e pepe in Rome. Simple, yet effective.

On the subject of German food, one of the things I loved about Munich was the ubiquity of pretzels. As in the bread ones, not the crunchy little snacks.