Food

Missing Asian food…

~ lauraleonilla ~ Leave a comment

I had had enough of Asian food by the time I left Shanghai in December. I was missing the vegetarian diet, foods cooked in an owen (Asian kitchens don’t have owens), proper bread, candy, etc.

However, the grass is always greener on the other side, I’ve started to miss especially all the spicy korean food, sticky rice on almost every meal, trying new foods all the time… There’s one Korean restaurant in Helsinki, it’s really good but rather expensive. Chinese food is of course available everywhere but it’s made to suit western taste and it’s rarely the stuff you could find in Shangai.

Kimchi and other stuff
Kimchi and other stuff
Korean seafood
Korean seafood
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In Korea the food is often cooked at the table.

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I really missed all the sweet stuff from Finland while in Asia, although there were some goodies available. I’m relly picky when it comes to the high sugar, high calorie things. If it’s just okay it’s not worth eating. In Shanghai I ate so many Snickers bars that I haven’t felt like having one since then.

Especially in Korea many coffee places have all kinds of local things that taste great!

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Korean dessert bingsu

Eating together and sharing food with other people is important and a lot more fun than the Finnish eating habits…

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There are some foods I don’t really miss, inluding intestines, lungs… In general everything’s worth trying, but sometimes one try is enough.

Chicken soup
Chicken soup

A Chinese menu

~ lauraleonilla ~ 4 Comments

Surprisingly in China there are Chinese restaurants. There’s one across the street from where I live, quite nice, pretty cheap and with an interesting menu!

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Last night I decided to try “stupid eggs”. I liked them for two reasons, first, they made me feel smart, second, for once there was enough salt to match my heart attack taste. Very nice!

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I also gave a try for “Burning hot mushroom, chinese cabbage and edible fungus”. I was fascinated by the “edible fungus” I never knew they’d serve inedible stuff in a restaurant, bit hey it’s China! There was a lot of garlic but “burning hot”? I don’t think it was…

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They also had dishes called “Burn double mushroom” and “Spicy and flesh and blood”. Sounds delicious but I thought it would have been a bit too exotic, so I saved those for my next visit.

The dish called “Dry pan bacteria mushroom chicken wings”,  seemed pretty interesting, but I didn’t feel like a food poisoning tonight, plus I’m still kind of trying to be a vegetarian so I skipped that one.

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So here it is! Stupid eggs, edible fungus, etc… I also had some rice which I was able to order with my fluent Chinese. I also wanted a diet coke but from what I understood they didn’t have it, so I had a regular coke instead. The coke wasn’t sweet enough, but other than that I enjoyed my meal very much.

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Of course there was too much food for one person to eat at once, so I took the rest home. Enough for the next two days!

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