Food log around Europe

As a true blue Singaporean, FOOD is one of the main objectives wherever we go!

In every single city, the specialty food and most recommended food is always hunted for! 

Here is our food log around europe!

London is not counted as its still UK where we were tired of fish and chips haha. So its Chinese Buffet to fill our tummy.

Cornish Pastry in Bath - Kind of like our curry puff but bigger version and less flavourful

Apple Crumble Pie in Amsterdam! - said to be the best and i agree!

A traditional Amsterdammer meal in a nice homely restaurant! do you see the bowl of lard on the top right with pork bits inside....my cholesterol level is rising!!!

Shhhh! Its just a brownie!

Pancake with blueberries, yoghurt ice-cream, blueberry sauce, Belgium chocolate flakes and whipped cream in Amsterdam

Pancake with tuna fish, Gouda chesse, olives and red onion - this and the above are the best pancakes i have ever eaten in my life from Amsterdam

Traditional Herring eaten raw like sashimi in a sandwich with  a slice of pickle

Paris - A half eaten bagel with cheese tomato and tuna- simply delicious

Caramel delights for a Parisian lunch - caramel biscuit, salted caramel crepes, cola (which is made from caramel too)

Best Crepes in my life - and cheapest too! 

Turkish Pastries in Paris - I really love these!

Turkish delights, Macarons and Mousse - YUM!

LOTSA Chocolates!

Eclairs!!! Both chocolate and coffee! Said to be best in Paris

Duck Confit and Escargot for our last meal in Paris

All road leads to Rome! Its Italian food time! Pizzas in square shape and thin crust!

Gelato Galore!!!

Bruschetta for appetiser

Main Course is the best risotto i have ever had -  awesomely balanced between the strong taste of Parmesan cheese with tangy lemon 

Seafood pasta - is so fresh they served the mussels raw and the prawn is the largest I have seen since Singapore

More bruschetta!

Lasagne!

Very good Carbonara with lotsa eggs!

Second course!!!

Some panini that i randomly ordered at a wet market! - Olives, tomatoes and mushrooms!

Creme of Potato!

Vegetable Lasagne!

Meat Lasagne

Artichoke! A taste that you need to get used to!

This is how people eat Pizza in Rome when they takeaway! Like a Sandwich~

It is originally like a pizza and you choose the portion and pay what it weighs....taste like a cake haha!

What some call the best gelato in Italy and its in Rome - they dun even show you the gelato unless u buy it.

The oldest Gelato store that Hitler and Mussolini used to love to eat from!

Pizza everyday!

The best pizza we ate and its in Venice!

Still eating gelato everywhere!

Mini Pizza anyone?

Tried to copy the gelato store ice cream sandwich!

It said fish pasta on the menu....crayfish la!

Scampi!!!!

Al Nero di Seppia or cuttlefish ink pasta!

Only pizzas like these straight from the oven are the best!

Gnocchi - some potato pasta

A type of dumpling like pasta

Nothing like a hot bowl of beef and vegetable soup after a tough morning of skiing in Innsbruck, Austria

The best Kebab i have ever had after a long day of skiing - trick is just spam all the sauces.

Chili box! with the same sauces as the kebab! Shiok!

Chili Hotdog!

In Munich, you get stoned drinking one litre beer and eating thick slabs of roast pork with potato dumpling!

Leberkase they call this huge ham sandwich that u get from the butcher

Sinful Pork knuckle that made me quit german food after...too much cholesterol

Chocolate Snowball from the small medieval town of Rotherburg, Germany

We cannot thank any german food liao so in Wursburg we just ate some asian noodles sold by some vietnamese stall.

Phad Thai cravings in Koln - Spam the chili flakes and sugar haha!

Conclusion

Amsterdam - really love the pancakes there. LEKKER!
Paris - Crepes are really a good snack with so many varieties and eating baguette with a spread is also really a nice way to have a picnic easily. très bon!!!
Rome and Venice - Pizza, gelato and pasta are really the Best that the Italians have brought to the modern world. Delizoso!
Germany - a little too meaty for my taste, probably will have it once in a while in a smaller portion too. Lecker!

When all else fails, there is always KEBAB! Cheap, Delicious and Good everywhere!!!
Asian food is also something that satisfies you dearly after too much western food. The spiciness and rice is really something I haven't seen anywhere else in the world. (I hear african food also super spicy)

POST-EUROPE

It is the longest time I have travelled in my life... just slightly exceeding the time in USA and Tokyo a few years back.

3 weeks in exact.

In these 3 weeks, we travelled on plane, bus, train, ferry, and of course on our trusty two legs all over west Europe. Tired but happy, we have finally finished our Euro trip, safe and soundly.

Shall not write like a diary style about what happened in those 22 days but I will try to make it more on insights on my travel...

Firstly just a collection of a representative picture of each of the places that we travelled :) (very hard choices as I took almost 2000 photos. See my facebook for more pictures:P)


First Stop: LONDON

Our must-do thing in London this time round was to catch a musical which we didn't the other time round as we had to leave by night that time. So we caught the Tailor Made Man which was a very new musical that was not as famous as the other musicals in London like Wicked and Phantom of the Opera but nonetheless a very good musical. It was about 2 gay lovers in the old Hollywood times and the ups and downs of their lives while living in the public eye. Something that you probably will never see in Singapore probably.

We sure couldn't sing like in a musical but being in the rain is something we did a lot throughout our time in Euro.

Second Stop: WINDSOR, BATH and STONEHENGE

While still in England, we took a student tour to go see the must see sights of the land of the English.

Windsor was where the queen stay during the weekends (she was there when we went but of course we didn't see here) and it was a lovely castle and a beautiful park at the back of the castle that was opened to public.

Bath is the only place in Great Britain with natural hot spring and even though we really wanted to, we didn't go soak in the water that proclaims such mythical capabilities (dun they all do :P)

But the greatest sight of all was the Stonehenge... why they hell would somebody but rocks standing in the middle of the field???

it was FREEEEEZZZZZZZZZIIIINNNNNNGGGG!!!

Third Stop. AMSTERDAM

SEX.DRUGS.WINDMILLS.PANCAKES.BICYCLES.

"EXTREMELY Windy weather" - from someone living in Aberdeen and from Singapore.

Fourth Stop: PARIS

Super touristy by day. Most romantic city in the world by night. Most smelly subway i have ever been to.

Night paranoma of Paris from Sacré-Cœur

Fifth Stop: ROME

You feel like you are time travelling back to the past as you seek out the ruins and ancient buildings of the roman empire. BELLISSIMO and DELISIOZO! My tongue taste palates had the time of its life in Roma!

Don't ask how much I paid for this photo haha

 Sixth Stop: VENICE

Water city. The only place in the world where I know everybody takes water transportation to get around town (you have to). Also the only place in the world where I look forward to see it flood (aqua alta).

Don't miss out me in the picture!

Seventh Stop: INNSBRUCK

Snowsports capital with FREE ski buses to all the ski chalets in the alps which are all maximum half an hour away. The most adrenaline pumping part of my trip!

Better snow than in Scotland definitely~

Eight Stop: MUNICH

BMW, Audi, Mercedes. Everywhere.
Beer. Beer halls. Beer gardens. Everywhere

Prost!

Ninth Stop: AUSBURG, ROTHERBURG, WURSBURG, FRANKFURT, MAINZ, KOBLENZ, KOLN

Scenic train ride along the romantic road from Munich to Frankfurt.

Scenic train ride along the middle of the rhine river from Frankfurt to Cologne.

Beautiful! (I am talking about the scenery of course!)

TENTH STOP: ABERDEEN

It was great to be back in english land.
It was much warmer than we left.
Seeing the familiar street, familiar faces, familiar room and bed (even though it was dirty).
HOME SWEET HOME.