Eating is one of the best things about travel. If I won the lottery, I would work my way around the world, country by country tasting EVERYTHING!
Granted, there are some countries whose delicacies are challenging to the pallet, but those tend to be the most interesting of stories for the folks back home.
My favorite eating haunts are (in no special order)
- Italy: olives, pasta, seafood, olive oil, rabbit, pesto....
- Thailand: pad thai, khao phat, khao neow mat muang....
- India: anything that can be slopped up with a chappati or nan
- Japan: raw fish from the Fish market in Tokyo
- Morocco: couscous and all the fixin's that go on it!
In fact we are so hooked on eating Thai, that we shortened a business trip in the Philipines to go to Thailand for a weekend to eat.
And there are our favorite eating moments:
- A bowl of Tunisian soup in the bazaar of Tunis-complete with bread, chickpeas, harissa
- A 5 course seafood meal in a little stone building around the corner from our apartment in Lerici
- Momo's in Kathmandu before we hopped a bus to Ananpurna
- The fish market in Tokyo, we ate more sushi in one day than should be legal
- One night in Tokyo, we entered a small Japanese bistro where no one spoke English, the menu was of course in Japanese, so we took a peek around at other plates and started pointing. To this day we have no idea what we ate, but teh experience was amazing!
- Morning gaewto nam (noodle soup) in a small noodle shop outside the school we taught at in Thailand oh and the Sukyaki was amazing also (with quail eggs)
- A picnic of rabbit and crusty bread on the wall of an old castle on the Mediterranean sea in Italy
- Pigeon in London
- Pho in morning market of Hoi An, Vietnam
- Dim Sum in Hong Kong
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