Do you ever reminisce over one particular meal or food you had?!

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7...maybe 8 years ago, I went to a friends house for dinner and she made the most incredible pasta dish. I mean it was out of this world...she moved to New Zealand shortly after and we lost touch but I think of this pasta at least once a month!

Most recent one is I was in Copenhagen a few weeks ago and had cardamom buns from a particular bakery (Juno’s if anyone’s going!) and I've thought about them every single day since. I could actually cry at the thought of how epic they were!

In Bulgaria when Inter railing with friends in the mid 1990s.

We took the wrong train out of Sofia (last minute platform swap and we didn't realise) and ended up at a tiny station at the bottom of a mountain. Everyone was getting on a bus so we did too and it wound up and up to a small mountain tow. A man directed us to a tiny hotel up a dirt track where despite the fact it was 10pm the lovely owner made us a huge dish containing eggs, ham, cheese and potato along with a couple of bottles of lager.

Never forgotten that meal. Really hungry after a seemingly endless train journey, a bit worried about where we were going and the food itself was simply delicious. I can still taste it now but though I've tried to replicate it I've never managed it :(

Turned out to be a beautiful little town as well

When my friend who had taught English in Thailand made me my first Thai food at uni 23 years ago. I have never tasted anything so flavorful or fresh before or since.

Restaurant in The Negresco in Nice, joint birthday meal. The food was amazing, the staff lovely and friendly - they even took photos of the young Japanese ladies with their food.

Very ££ but worth it

An amazing chicken and ham pie in the Glenview Hotel, Wicklow, in about 1978.

The yellow buns the free school meal kids used to get in primary school - we would always swap our chocolate bars or crisps for them.

Tempura Dublin Bay Prawns at East in Howth, Dublin.

The best steak I've ever had in my life for 6 euros in a French motorway cafe - I don't eat steak any more as nothing can match it!

@Benefitofthedoubt and @Gingerkittykat could it be La garigue?
@Boots20 I loved a secret!!!!
@historysock i didn’t remember them till this thread and now I miss them.

America - Oreo cakesters, sunnyseed drops and that wrap I got in Chelsea market. Oh and the cheesecake from one place I’ll never forget.

Italy - mostly everything but in particular that cherry gelato in Florence.

Iceland - snudor- I wish I could find a recipe that worked

Japan - I curried noodles and prawn dish

Uk- lumpy bumpy cake I got in a restaurant in South Shields and the most incredible cheese and mustard bread from a farm shop outside York

I always fall in love with food in places I don’t go often

From my childhood I miss citrus spring lime juice and some type of puffy potato crisps,

Junction 28 pidgeo??? X

Had a nutella and mascarpone calzone in Italy. Couldn’t eat any of it as I was so full from my meal, I must have had about two bites. It almost brings me to tears thinking about it because it was the best thing I’d ever tasted and I physically couldn’t eat it

Recently at the Four Seasons on Park Lane I had a croque monsieur with black truffle. Jesus it was the best thing EVER.

In China, a hot pot at one of those places on the street where you pick ingredients and they throw them in the hot broth and serve you a bowl. It cost about 27p and it was glorious.

The popcorn chicken at La Petite Ferme in Franschoek.

My mum’s pea and ham soup.

A seafood platter my sister and I shared on Ile d'Aix. We had to keep asking the waited how to get into some of the shellfish. A bucket of cooked shell on prawns my Dad brought back from Norway they had to been eaten straight away as they had been on a plane so we just sat around the kitchen table and gorged on them. A fish soup at our local Italian, it's lovely.

Yes, I went to a wedding and they served the nicest vegetable soup, I don't even like soup but it was amazing, I swear they put crack in it or something because I've thought about it for about 10years.
I've tried several recipie but nothing has come close.
Also, a chocolate cake my school served we called it Welly fudge, it was a moist chocolate cake in a thick chocolate sauce, I found a recipie very similar, not quite the same but it hits the spot!

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Nope, I googled it and it was l'escargo blanc.

It's on Queensferry Street, so easy enough for me to get to again but none of my fussy family will ever touch French food and my best friend is veggie so can't see anyone coming with me.

I loved potato puffs when I was a kid too.

Nowhere near as exotic as all the global cuisines listed by PPs but sausage rolls I had at a funeral (of all places!) years ago. Absolutely the best sausage rolls I've ever eaten in my life. The funeral was quite a posh do and I imagine the caterers had some mega fancy supplier.

These are defining moments in my mind. More so in childhood I have ‘key food memories’; these are they:

The first time I had a galette in France; ham and egg

Two dishes; a starter of garlic prawns and a main of lemon sole in Brittany

My Dad barbecuing fresh trout in Lot et Garonne

A coffee meringue cake thing my mum made for a dinner party, that we had a bit of next morning

As an adult these are my golden food moments:

I steamed coral trout with lemon and fennel in Australia and it was lush (my BF has caught it that afternoon)

Meat fondue with frites and assorted sauces in Burgundy

Salmon and asparagus pasta the first time my mum cooked it

An ice cream made with Milo powder that tasted of Maltesers

An old BF’s mum’s stuffing; pretty plain in terms of recipe but so nice

A halibut dish I had in Canada

Am amuse bouche in France; sort of salmon mousse and sprouting nigella seeds

Weston14 If you can find a WI market their sausage rolls are very good.

The salmon and cucumber sandwich I had in Sainsbury’s cafe the day after giving birth. I hadn’t been able to keep anything other than crisps down for months. It was incredible to be able to eat!

This sounds really boring, but I remember my Grandpa's stew. He made it every time we visited. It was delicious after a long car trip.

My Grandpa was a Swedish Finn. He put both beef and pork in his stew, along with root veg and spices like allspice and bay leaves. I remember picking out the allspice berries. I loved to smash up the potatoes and veg so they soaked up the delicious stock.

Served with "hardtack" (those big round rye crisp things you can get in Ikea) and lots of butter.

I make something we call "winter stew," which is similar but never tastes quite as good as Grandpa's stew!

Oh yes, a handful really stand out

A steak dinner in a rural diner that turned out to be one of best meals I ever ate or will probably ever eat

A balsamic vinegar creme brûlée

A bread pudding made by my BIL

Iced buns that we used to get as pudding when I was at middle school. Every time I buy an iced bun I hope it's going to taste like those but it never does. I think about them a lot...

So many!

Small chocolate cakes in Switzerland that were in the shape of jelly moulds.

French onion soup with a chopped up cheese toastie floating in it in Paris.

Sky Garden two years ago, raw trout and apple starter, the best thing I've ever eaten.

Cockles and white wine vinegar, speared with a toothpick

What a great thread!

Chicken lokshen (I cannot recteate this - friends have said because I don't use a kosher chicken.

Kossof's cheesecake

A warm peach fresh from the tree evokes hay and horseshit and my grandma when I ate it from her tree next to her stables.

Peppercorn steak, spinach and potato dauphinoise from 19 Mossop Street but that was more about the era and the company c1985.

I still dream about the amazing Dover sole cooked in butter and tiny brown shrimp. South Hams, Hope Cove 1993. Just divine.

Also in Cambridge in the 1980's when the first Fondue restaurants arrived, a simple cheese fondue with fresh crusty bread. That's a dish I cannot forget either.

Or the unusual fried fish curry in a unassuming curry house. Was most unexpectedly delicious.

Sultan Soup at the Hilton in Jakarta. Company put us up there for 4 months when we moved to Indonesia in 90s. Hubby and I still salivate over the thought of it. He went back there on business 6 years ago, got the recipe and on his last day they filled a kilner jar for him and he brought it home for me probably an illegal import but i ate all the evidence.

OK, this thread's making me drool!
Everyone's talking about countries they went to and amazing food, mine's going to be school dinner chocolate crunch and green custard lol Omg was yum.

My dads curry. I miss that.

A tasting menu DP and I had in a fancy pants place in London.

Copious amounts of Hugo cocktails during a cycling trip in Italy