Along with my passion for food, I absolutely love to travel to different far flung places, with interesting cuisines. I have been very fortunate so far in my life to see a lot of varied cultures and cuisines in my travels. It ain't over yet by a long shot, after Tanzania and Zanzibar (for the lobster of course) for the honeymoon, there is still a wish list needing ticking, i.e. Goa, Sri Lanka, Borneo, Cuba, Canada, Peru, (am I allowed go back to Thailand after already being there more than 7 weeks?!)....
Please feel feel to comment on recommendations. This page is a really quick synopsis of where I've been, and what I ate and drank, at a push I could google and get ya the names of the nicest restaurants, but decided waaay too much effort on my part, so only by request please!!! Though Vietnam...I have a few!
Okay, so here it is, I have just documented the countries with the good, the bad, and the Drink!!!!
Please note that alot of my European visits were in my younger years where the tipple was more important than the food, i.e. turkey, cyrpus, crete..........
Russia
Highlight: Wasn’t too keen on Russian cuisine I must say, but mutton stew was tasty enough I suppose
Dislike: Borcht
Fave Tipple: Baltika IV, V (breakfast on the sranssiberian train), oh and neat vodka of course
Mongolia
Highlight: Mongolian BBQ in Ulanbataar was simply amazing
Dislike: Horse Milk
Fave Tipple: Gengis Khan Vodka
China
Highlight: Peking Duck and Mixed meat hot pot
Low Light: Eating in the Irish bar in Bejing for all Ireland foot ball final, rank! Stick with what you know!
Fave Tipple: Rice wine and Heineken
Hong Kong
Highlight: River cruise dinner
Low Light: Food in HK was faultless, something for everyone in the audience
Fave Tipple: Heineken
Vietnam
Highlight: Spring rolls in Little Hanoi, Wild Boar in jungle overnight with Easy Riders. (Vietnam has best cuisine in the World), French bread rolls
Low Light: NONE
Tipple: Saigon Beer
Cambodia
Highlight:Pizzas, that’s all we ate!
Tipple: didn’t drnk
Laos
Highlight: Pizza, pastries and milkshakes J Again that’s all we ate
Tipple: Beer Laos
Thailand
Highlight: Street food, pineapple rice, sweet basil stir fry, fried fish etc etc
Low Light: Not happy with Pad Thai in any place
Tipple: Mojitos, buckets of blue stuff, Tiger Beer
Malaysia
Highlight: Chinese food market in KL
Low Light: None I can remember
Tipple: Heineken
Singapore:
Highlight: Satay chicken
Lowlight: Food hall in shopping district, horrible sinagpore noodles no less
Tipple: Heineken
Australia
Highlight: Baramundi, grouper
Low Light: Crocodile, Yellow Tail Sparkling Wine
Tipple: White wine & Jump juice bar smoothies
Fiji
Highlight: Fish and chips in Smugglers Cove
Lowlight: simply everything on Ratu Kini Island
Tipple: Fiji Beer
NZ
Highlight: crayfish, and green lipped mussels, fresh salads and great fusion cuisine
Low Lights: NZ food was amazing
Tipple: White Wine
Indonesia
Highlight: fish cooked in banana leaves with Indonesian spices, nasi goring of course, Balinese curry
Low Light: none, great food
Tipple: Bintang Beer
Chile
Highlight: Excellent meat, and trout, rice and pasta mixed together
Lowlights: A bad advocado sambo was about it
Tipple: White wine, Castillo de Diablo to be precise, went to the vineyard, pisco sours, cocktails
Argentina
Highlight: STEAK & CHOCOLATE
Lowlight: r u crazy?
Tipple: Malbec & pisco sours, and mojitos
Brazil
Highlight: Engagement, so I actually don’t remember the food
Lowlight: none, (see highlight)
Tipple: Mojitos
France, Paris
Highlight: Crepes, Moroccan restaurant in Paris, Quiche
Lowlights: Possibly the worst restaurant we’ve ever gone to near Notredame Cathedral, microwaved food till it nearly exploded
Tipple: Bordeaux wine
Italy, Venice
Highlight: Pizza, pasta, hmmmmm, icecream!
Low light: none
Tipple: Vento Pinto Grigio, lemoncello
Belgium, Leuvin
Highlight: Chocolate
Lowlight: none to mind
Tipple: Stella Beer
Netherlands, Amsterdam
Highlight: Steak houses
Lowlight: lots of low quality restaurants
Tipple: Heineken
Spain (Various locations)
Highlight: Calamari, tapas, pinchos, paella, fried whitebait, Tall Man Bar Hot dogs & crinkly chips(for nostalgia)
Low Lights: None
Tipple: Torres Wine
Croatia, Dubronvik
Highlights: loads of places with mixed seafood platters, and mussels, ice-cream is amazing
Lowlights: huge disappointment in the Sailing Club restaurant, Truffle overkill!
Tipple:Vodka
Poland, Krakow
Highlights: Boar, lots of Italian food actually
Low lights: food was pretty good
Tipple: Polish beers and vodka
Turkey, Kusidasi
Highlights: none
Lowlights: too many
Tipple: Smirrnoff ice
Cyrpus, Ayia Napa
Highlights: lots of good resturants, Mexican, Italian, Indian
Lowlights: lots of bad ones too
Tipple: Fat Frogs
Greece, Crete Island
Highlights: Not a culinary holiday, I’m sure its great, should do it again now that I’m older and wiser. Love greek food
Lowlights:
Tipple: Fat Frogs
USA, NYC
Highlights: massive portions, fresh blueberry muffins, starbucks, maccie Ds
Lowlights: massive portions
Tipple: Was under 21 L
UK, Various locations
Highlights: the variety of different cuisines available
Lowlights: pies, yuk!!! Too stodgy!
Tipple: anything goes
