The best food I have ever eaten was when I was in Thailand a couple of years ago.
I went with a good friend of mine to do the whole cliched post uni travelling thing. We booked two nights in a place in Bangkok so that we could get our bearings and decide where to go next. We paid £10 (about $20US) per night each for our room.
So we turn up by tuk tuk to the hotel, and what a hotel. Marble and gold everywhere. Porters carried our bags up to our room and everything. And this was budget travelling!
Anyway, the food. We ate in the hotels restaurant, again absurdly cheaply, but it was some of the best food I have ever eaten. We had a spicy duck dish, and man was it spicy! But it was also absolutely gorgeous. You know how sometimes spicy food can be overpowering, all spice and no flavour? Well this wasn't, it was so nice.
In fact, pretty much everything I ate over there was really really nice. 🙂
Originally posted by Mangy MoooseYay!@
Good Lord girl....
I am well traveled...
That said...you have some of the best fair on the planet right there in the Lone Star State....
[b]TexMex!
Thinking about the no. 2 Enchialda plate at Trudy Texas Star Cafe off 36th street in Austin...cant remember the little park there.
UT grad '85[/b]
Austin has some great restaurants! I love Katz's Deli!
Originally posted by invigorateSurely in Brighton 'The Market Diner' offers up the best grub... The Gut Buster n'all that?
My restaurant - Moshi Moshi located in Brighton England, everybody welcome. Mention RHP to get a discount.
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Edit - best place I have eaten - Chez Paul, nr Place Bastille, Paris.
A seafood restaurant in Castellamare di Stabia (midway between Sorrento and Pompeii). They would catch their fish fresh that day and then serve it up that evening however you wanted it - absolutely fabulous.
Also, the best pizza I have ever had was in a little pizzeria just of the Piazza San Marco (I think!!) in Naples - have never been able to eat the melted cheese crap pizzas since....
...I am also quite impartial to the food from a Kurdish restaurant on the lower slopes of the Alborz mountains just north of Tehran (in a place that translates as Stone Park), but I forget the name of it. Fabulous kebabs....
.....although perhaps my favourite is the Karachi, just of Little Horton Lane, Bradford. The oldest curry-house in Bradford, about £4 a dish and absolutely no cutlery. Fantastic.
Originally posted by mmanuelum...don't you mean you are partial to it? (unless you have an indifferent attitude toward it, in which case i guess you really are impartial to it)😉
...I am also quite impartial to the food from a Kurdish restaurant on the lower slopes of the Alborz mountains just north of Tehran (in a place that translates as Stone Park), but I forget the name of it. Fabulous kebabs....
The best meal I've ever had was in a 5 star hotel with a Michellen star (or however you spell it) in Apeldoorn in Holland (next to the Royal Palace 'de Loo'😉.
I was staying there in November (or so, it could have been October...see if I care) and we had a meal.
There were 5 courses in total (the first being raw beef with onions in a goose fat smothering of sorts...I believe).
But the greatest thing was that we took a wine-arrangement to go with the meal. So one of the best cooks decides which wines you should drink with each course. It was fantastic.
The main course of mine was "Waterzooi". Pheasant cooked in truffels.
I've never tasted anything better in my life.
But that was the fourth course and probably the ninth bottle of wine...so who knows for sure?
Originally posted by CorsairI've eaten silkworm larvae from a Seoul street stall. they were ok - kind of woody - but i don't think i'd bother again. on the other hand, i had some great traditional Korean food while there - a friend of mine was showing me around so we got the authentic stuff. and copious amounts of unfamiliar forms of alcohol - there was even one made from hawthorn i seem to vaguely remember...
You have eaten cockroaches from Bangkok street stalls as well?