Here's an idea that came via TNGreatAunt, and since I'm reminiscing about our stint in Ireland, now that we've been back in the US a year, I thought I'd use it.
If you've ever lived in or visited another country (or currently live in one in which you didn't grow up), what food and/or drink do you miss?
It's Time
1 year ago
6 comments:
I miss the huge variety of hard cider in the UK and Ireland. I miss sitting in a pub, listening to the locals and their wonderful accents and eating fish and chips where I don't have to ask for the malt vinegar. And I miss the theatre district in London. Sigh.
I miss dalk-bok-ie that Wog would bring me from a street vendor, good nak-ji bokum or oh-jing-ah bokum, and a really good hae-mul pajeon! Of course, all of this should be had with soju to drink and some good friends to share it with!
Of course, the Amok in Cambodia was also really great.....there's just too much good food in Korea and Cambodia. (A lot of Cambodian food is like Thai - but better.)
I miss steak frites, but I miss the place I ate it more. I miss good fish & chips too, especially the vinegar. I miss being able to get a baguette with cheese just about anywhere, and cheap good wine in the grocery store.
I third the good fish and chips thing. I really miss the beer gardens in Germany, and being able to drink "in public". Walking into any little corner shop and getting really good bread/cheese/salami-type stuff. The peaches in Greece (oh hell, pretty much everything I ate in Greece). And that whole-lime daquiri from Mexico.
There is a very specific cookie I miss from England. I miss Nando's on Earl's Court Road and the sandwich shop on Gloucester Road. I miss true pub food, the ploughman's lunch, and apples, wine, and cheese in the fells above Ambleside.
I miss the Irish bacon, Clonakilty black pudding, (the rather bready) sausages, toasted specials (grilled cheese sandwich with onion, tomato and ham on it, too), the salads with corn, chopped bell peppers, and onion that would come on the side, the way the chicken at the store was labeled with the farm it was from, the whole "Irish breakfast" deal with broiled tomatoes, the not-too-sweet cookies, Moro candy bars, the tasty variety of curry sauces that came in jars like spaghetti sauce....
Something tells me I should try to find the local World Market pretty soon, and also make some toasted specials with salad!
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