Best food and drink in the World?

[Catherine Glockler]

Hi, what are the best food dishes and/or drinks (any kind of drink) you've experienced around the world? (which are a speciality in the place you experienced and not available to you at home)

I'm planning a trip somewhere which has food and/or drinks which are not available to experience in France and are delicious. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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[ooen]

I can't just pick one or two dishes, but I can make a few comments. Basically, I'm just stating the obvious, but you get the best and the finest of a dish where it is originally created. For example, you get the best Indian curry in India. You get the best Chinese in China. I personally love sandwiches at delis in New York City. Etc., etc., etc.
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[joanneb]

I really enjoyed a fish sandwich in Istanbul cooked by fishermen on their ships moored to the shore. I guess it isn't gourmet food but it was really tasty and really cheap and I wasn't expecting it to be so good!

And real cassoulet served in an everyday bar in the southwest of France, again I wasn't expecting it to be so good.

And finally "duck in blood sauce" cooked by a hostess in a "Chambre d'Hôte" (B&B) in Normandy France - absolutely amazing - real food cooked slowly.


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[laz]

I agree with ooen... go for local specialities, and eat them where the locals eat them.

For variety and novelty, I though Vietnam was amazing. Our honeymoon there turned into a gastronomic tour pretty soon after we arrived in Hanoi and tried our first bowl of pho.
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[OnTheGo]

I also try to seek out what the traditional/authentic dish is whenever I travel. I usually plan my trips around where I have friends living abroad. They always have all of the best places to eat already figured out and I can be sure to avoid anything that is too touristy.

[ecofriendlytourist]

Eat the local specialities. That's the best bet. And according to the location: the best seafood pasta I ever ate was on a fishing boat off the coast of Sardinia. Fantastico!
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[cpmac]

The duck in blood sauce that has been mentionned higher up is a speciality of Duclair on the river Seine. The legend has it that the farmers wife taking her ducks across the ferry to Duclair had them crushed in the crowd on the ferry. Not to loose anything, the recipe was born by cooking the duck in it's blood.

Other fine Normandy delights (of course Normandy is just outside France. When you get to Giverny you are in Normandy) are Camembert cheese (the best is from Isigny-Ste Mère) and Calvados (apple brandy) , cider and Chicken pays d'auge (chicken cooked in cider sauce)
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[Thedidgeridude]

One of the best meals I've ever eaten was in a seafood restaurant in St Malo, France. Me and a friend ordered les fruits de mer which comprised of a mountain of seafood on a huge platter, with a lobster as its centerpiece. It was a rare treat on our three and a half week trip around France but well worth the money. The restaurant was amazing too, inside a cave, if I remember correctly.

[robinoman]

One of the best meals I had was with my girlfriend on the edge of a beach.
We had pulled over to admire the view and eat lunch. The sea was edged in bright green seaweed and fish all over, a local Omani fisherman was talking with us and went out with his throw net and from his first throw came back with 20 or more nice sized fish, he gave us some, which we cooked in foil and mixed in some spices and potatoes , beans , some lemon, mixed dried fruit and apple, fried seaweed separate.
It was perfect all-round from the feeling, smell, the taste and the view. We commented at the time we would pay a fortune in a London restaurant for this and would not be as fresh.

R

[le tigre]

freshly fried golden crispy dough dunked in steaming hot congee with 'thousand year egg', pork and sliced shallots accompanied by warm sweetened soy milk in a local chinese style deli in Hong Kong for something like $2 Australian...

nostalgic (seeing as i was born in Hong Kong) ahhh... brings a tear to the eye!

on the otherhand... best food EVER when one is hungover (or any other time really....) - VEGEMITE with margarine / similar spreads ... on seeded toasted bread... like HEAVEN ... With a latte hmmmmm
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