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Other Goodies I've Tried And Liked

  • Australia
    • Kangaroo - in all its various forms: kangaroo burgers, smoked kangaroo, and even kangaroo lasagne.
    • Smoked emu.
    • Meat pies - in all their various forms.
    • Loganberry pie - with loganberry sauce, whipped cream, and ice-cream - at the Taste of Tasmania Festival.
    • Grub worms - and no, I didn't eat whole, live grub worms - it was a grub worm paté and was so good I went back for seconds.
    • Krispy Kreme doughnuts!
  • Austria
    • Sausage (with spicy mustard) and Kaiser rolls - with ice-cold beer, of course.
    • The pork medley on a Kaiser (that I don't know the actual name of) - also with cold beer.
    • Fresh-off-the-tree apricots and all the varied apricot desserts at the Apricot Festival in Krems.
    • Mozart chocolate.
    • Smoked ham, with some wonderful cheeses.
  • Belgium
    • Chocolate!
    • Belgian waffles dipped in, what else?... chocolate!
  • Cambodia
    • Prawn curry in coconut - not just in coconut milk - it's actually served in the coconut.
    • Glass noodle chicken soup.
  • China
    • Various dumplings and noodles - including the spiciest noodles I've ever had - it was a four-tissue meal.
    • Beijing Duck. (view story)
    • Pork sandwich (on pita-like bread).
    • Sweet bean soup.
    • Sweet potatoes in caramel.
    • Every fruit you can imagine dipped in caramel.
  • Egypt
    • Om Ali - quite indescribable, but I'll try... cooked pieces of puff pastry combined with nuts, raisins and coconut, covered in hot sweetened milk and cream.  Yummy!
  • France
    • Cheese!
    • All those yummy pastries and desserts.
  • Germany
    • Sausage (with spicy mustard) - even better than in Austria.
    • Beer! - with over 1300 breweries and more than 5000 different beers, Germany is a beer tasters paradise.  And everywhere I went, I sampled very local brews.  My favorite:


      Old Franken Dark (Nuremberg)

  • Greece
    • Gyros and Souvlaki - meat of choice (usually pork but I also liked chicken when I could get it) and other goodies wrapped in pita bread.
    • Cheese pie - for breakfast.
    • Saganaki (fried) cheese.
    • Chocolate croissants (also for breakfast).
    • Naxos sausage.
    • Baklava dipped in chocolate.
    • Many other sweets that I don't know the names of.
  • India
    • Vegetable samosa - battered and deep fried, served with a spicy sauce.
    • Puri bhaji (for breakfast) - potato chunks served in a thick, rich, spicy sauce - doesn't really sound that great for breakfast, does it?
    • Various sweets at the Chokhu Moku Joshi Sweet shop in Bikaner, India - the names of which I can't recall and ingredients I couldn't begin to identify.
  • Italy
    • Gelato - everyday - especially in Sicily, where I had a "gelato burger" - an ice-cream filled bread roll...

    • All the various focaccia breads in Cinque Terre.
    • Pesto pizza.
  • Japan
    • Okonomiyaki - indescribable, but delicious.
    • The freshest sushi I've had anywhere in the world.
    • Just about anything from the many pastry shops (they're everywhere).
    • Kumiko's curry rice.
    • MOS Burger - completely different from McDonald's.
  • Korea
    • Bibimbap - various vegetables (and a raw egg!) on a bed of rice served in a hot stone pot (which, thankfully, cooks the egg).
    • Kimchi - pickled cabbage in a spicy sauce - I know it doesn't sound all that great, and most foreigners don't care for it, but I quite liked it.
    • Hotteok - a doughnut-without-the-hole, filled with a mixture of cinnamon and honey - yum!
    • Several other traditional Korean dishes (and desserts!), the names of which I can't recall, that were served at the Chusok (Korean Thanksgiving) party I was fortunate enough to be invited to.
  • Laos
    • The VERY spicy tham mak hung (papaya salad) that set my mouth on fire.
    • Ok, are you ready for this?... Crickets!
      ...and they weren't all that bad.
  • Malaysia
    • Coconut milk straight from the coconut - scraping the soft white flesh from the insides.
    • The freshest, sweetest pineapple I've ever tasted - from a street vendor in Penang.
  • Norway
    • Heidi's grilled salmon - so fresh.
    • Reindeer - very tender.
  • Spain
    • In a word: Tapas - small (almost bite-sized) appetizers of every imaginable variety.  As the locals do, I simply had a sampling of tapas for my meal.  My favorite place specialized in seafood tapas.
  • Sweden
    • Helen's chocolate cake.  Yum!
    • Curt's mushroom sandwiches (with mushrooms we picked ourselves).
    • Helen's chicken and veggie pie.
    • Curt's oriental pasta.
  • Switzerland
    • Chocolate!
    • Cheese fondue (with bread).
    • Chocolate fondue (with fruits and sweet breads).
  • Taiwan
    • Ishi nabe(sp?) - meat, seafood, and veggies cooked at the table.
  • Thailand
    • Banana shakes at the Koh Tao Tropicana Restaurant.
    • Noname - a fried snack with a spicy dipping sauce at the Koh Tao Tropicana Restaurant.
    • Fresh, chilled mango on the beach in Koh Samui.
    • Phat Thai noodles all over Thailand.
    • Tuna pizza on the small island just north of Koh Tao.
    • Mango/banana/coconut smoothies at the Hill Tribe Hemp Cafe in Chaing Mai.
    • Chicken and lemon grass in coconut milk at the Riverside Restaurant in Chaing Mai.
  • Turkey
    • Turkish Delight (of course) - so sweet and yummy!
    • Baklava - I actually liked this better than Turkish Delight; locals call it "Turkish Viagra" - hehe.
    • The Turkish breakfast I had at a restaurant on the river in Eskesehir - complete with hand-whipped butter and local honey to go on the fresh bread.
    • Borek - like an over-sized cinamon roll filled with cheese or potatoes; a great traveling snack for all those long bus rides.
    • Peach Cappy... a canned fruit drink; I was addicted from the very first one. ;-)