Foods you can only get in your region/city

[thequeenbeyondthewall]

I'm in Liverpool.

I have lived all over and you can only get Sui Mais here (that I have for nd anyway.)No one else outside of Liverpool seems to have heard of them.

They are pork and prawn dumplings but bigger and better and not won tons.

Recently went to Cardiff and I had a corned beef and mash thing from the chippy that was a welsh thing. It definitely began with R but it was regional to that area I think. It was fabulous.

What do you have that you don't see anywhere else?

Scouse is just normal stew as served anywhere in the country. I've never had anyone explain to me what is different about it in Liverpool, apart from the name.

Reestit mutton tattie soup and bannocks

Of sassermaet

*or sassermaet

I'm convinced a parmo used to be made of pork, 30-odd years ago. And I reckon Morrissey's 'Every Day is Like Sunday' was set in Redcar. Lemon tops are nuclear yellow!

Coddle.

Scotch Pie , stovies. Red kola.

I bought Dorset Knobs on holiday just because I am immature i like them though

Haggis pakora (not envy)

Haggis Pakora is indeed

Where I grew up (Lancashire) we used to have potato pie on bonfire night with beetroot on the side. They don't seem to do that elsewhere that I've seen.

Butteries/rowies- also known as rollies further north. Food of the gods.

Butter beer.....

claphands you can get potato scallops in Yorkshire and some chip shops in Lancashire.....but don't get me started on the quality of chip shops in Lancashire 😂

Oooo tatty scallop on a tea cake! That’s what we used to get from chip shop at dinner time at school 🤣

Stotties
Walking into a fish shop and the staff giving me exactly what I ask for when I request chips with batter
Ham and pease pudding dips
Cockles in a bag with a pin to pull them from their shells

HA ! Butter beer

groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Morrisons-Taste-Of-Asia-Steamed-Dim-Sum-Selection/371735011

The vegetable one is siu mai

What is pease pudding ?

Pease pudding:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pease_pudding

It's also very good in a ham sandwich.

Pease pudding sounds nice. I need to tryit.

You can get siu mai in EVERY dim sum place! If you can't, then run a mile - it's not a real dim sum place

You can also get them in waitrose if anyone's looking for a quick siu mai fix.

Just confirming that there are siu mai in London - but thank you for starting the thread op, these all sound yummy!

I’m originally from South Africa. Favourite local things are biltong (most of the ones in the UK aren’t up to scratch) and something called “bunny chow”, which comprises a loaf of bread cut in half vertically, the insides hollowed out and then filled with hot curry. Tastiest thing ever, I really miss it.

Yuk sung from Chinese takeaways/restaurants is only available in the midlands. It’s a sort of minced pork mixture that you wrap up in a lettuce leaf. I absolutely love it, but can’t get it where I am now.

Small biscuits called nuns farts

Rag puddings which I love and black peas with vinegar on bonfire night

Yuk Sung widely available too - well, given I've had it here, and in Hong Kong, I doubt it's a Midlands recipie!