The Trip is Over - Food

For anyone into their food, here's a look back through my notes of some of the dishes I ate along the way:

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     Sweden

·         Breaded and double fried herring with mash and lingerberry jam

·         Various wholesome combinations of Swedish meats, veg, salad, and bread.

·         Cracker-type bread, barbecued Swedish sausage, with lavender biscuits and local brown ale

·         Red deer steaks

·    Poland

·         Potato pancakes for starter, Polish dumplings for main and Apple pie and custard for desert

·   Germany

·         Currywurst and chips (curried sausage)

·         Rolled beef and bacon, with red cabbage and potatoes, followed by Apple strudel

·   Jordan

·         Falafel, flatbread, hummus and salad

·     India 
      Note that Indian food is almost always spicy, even for breakfast, but rarely that spicy. Not often more than in England anyway.

·         Breakfast

-  Omelette sandwich, a dosa (fermented rice-batter pancake) and chai (masala tea)

-  Poori Bhaji - roti bread served with a non-spicy veg curry

-  Vada, a savoury donut from lentil flour, served with a tomato and a coconut dip

·         Lunch

-  Thali (curry buffets)

-  Chapattis (flatbread), curried cauliflower, curried mixed veg, and daal (a type on lentil soup)

·         Dinner

-  Curries such as xacuti (chicoti) curry, vindaloo, butter chicken, biryani, mushroom masala, veg jalfrezi, chicken vindaloo served with rice, and poppadum’s

-  Chicken tandoori

·         Desert

-  Kulfi Falooda - a desert of soft dough with almonds and cherry, drizzled in pomegranate seeds and milk,

-  Ladoo - a small orange coloured ball of doughy, syrupy texture

     Singapore

-  Laksa – chicken & noodle based dish

·    Malaysia             

·         Pork Bao (steamed Chinese buns), Malaysian thick noodles, and some meat on a stick- chicken, baby squid

·         Seemingly endless combinations of rice or noodles served dry or in soup, beef or chicken, this veg or that veg, this sauce or that sauce... all a bit samey

·   Indonesia

-  Crab, battered calamari, cuttlefish in sauce, baked whole fish, and fried shrimps, all served with rice and side dishes and all fantastic

-  Nasi Goreng and Mie Goreng (fried rice & veg, fried noodles and veg)

     Georgia

·         Khinkali - a staple Georgian dish of dumplings made from pasta sheets stuffed with meat of vegetables

·         Khachpuri – stuffed cheese bread

·         Traditional Georgian meal of cheeses, bread, salad, meat salad, beans, bread and chicken