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?

You can get Sui Mai in M&S.
How about London cure smoked salmon (Formans)

I was going to say Scouse . Husband hates it when he makes Scouse and I whisper to the kids round the dinner table it’s just stew you know.

I’m not originally from here, I grew up near London - curry sauce or cheese or gravy from a chippy. I agree I never heard of a sui mai before I came here - we live near a wholesaler that boasts the ‘best sui mais in the city’ (or so says the poster ).

@purrswhileheeats are you in Greek or live near the lanes? I’ve only ever had both when made by my yia yia!

Oops I meant that curry sauce, cheese or gravy on chips from a chippy was just not a thing. And Chinese places sell the rice and noodles separately to the main food stuff. But still broadly the same, although I never had a fried egg on rice until I came up here!

Sad cakes anyone? And bilberry pies from Oddies? (Although my gran made the best bilberry pies, she used to send me off to uni with a load to freeze )

Dripping cakes, specifically Cheltenham drippers - disgraceful amounts of sugar & fat and absolutely no dried fruit

These ‘Welsh Oat Cakes’ from gerrardsbakery.co.uk in North Wales/Cheshire.... grew up with them and never found them anywhere else, not even living in South Wales for a while! Whenever I am back I always make sure I hit up a Gerrard’s at some point.

In North London now, Tottenham Cake is the thing. I always thought it was just sponge with pink icing but there’s something different about the sponge, it’s denser/drier, but tastier than that makes it sound . They don’t even seem to have it in other parts of London.

Sorry, these welsh oat cakes! Thick and chewy and sweet with milk chocolate on top with wavy lines in it.

Pasties. Not the Cornish ones, the spicy pink sausage meat in batter ones from the chippy and which are sometimes eaten as a pasty bap in a buttered roll. Every chippy in Northern Ireland does a pasty supper.

Fifteens. I think they’re just an NI thing. Maybe I’m wrong?

Sui Mais is a Chinese dish... you can buy it in every big city in the UK

Also in almost every Asian supermarket freezer section... £3 for 8 at mine

Staffordshire oatcakes.

Food of the Gods. Bacon, cheese, mushrooms and brown sauce please

Bit idiotic to think that a Chinese dish is only available in Liverpool...

Eccles Cakes.

I'm so hungry agggghh

Belfast here. Pineapple tarts available in some bakeries. And scallops or scraps in some but not many chippies

Another vote for Staffordshire oatcakes! DH is a londoner and is now oatcake obsessed since I introduced him to them, we even get them delivered

Banbury cakes !

I assumed you got macaroni pies everywhere, are they just a Scottish thing?

Tattie scones

You can get sui mai here, especially in dim sum restaurants. I'm in New Zealand.

Rocky Mountain Oysters (bulls testicles). Not that I want them. Yuck.

I think fruit pudding might be a Scottish thing. Every time I go home I try to get some, I bloody love it.

Pie Mash and liquor in London.

Oh and macaroni pies just can’t get either down south

Used to be able to in Farm Foods in Seven Kings, Essex!

Scouse is lovely, went to the world museum last week with ds and tried scouse pie for the first time.

Dear readers, I think I might have died and gone to heaven that afternoon.

While I love this thread, the assertion that Sui Mai - a popular dim sum dish available in all
most major international capitals and throughout the majority of China - is native and endemic to Liverpool, is fricking hilarious.