Overseas / foreign food you miss?

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I salivate at the thought of Yang's Dumplings in China. Fried and crispy on the bottom. Filled with either pork and onion OR prawns, with a little soup in them too. Topped with sesame seeds.

Also xiao long bao, steamed soup dumplings.

OMG. My mouth is watering at the thought and it is YEARS since I've had them.

There used to be an excellent German restaurant in Newcastle, but it closed down many years ago. Such a shame

Oh gosh, the malva pudding you can get from any Woolworths in South Africa. I have made a very good homemade one since leaving, but the deliciousness and ease of the ready made one is hard to beat. And I don’t have to know about the insane amount of butter and sugar when it’s a ready made one 😄.

Woolworths also used to do these amazing spicy yoghurt marinated chicken thigh skewers which were incredible. Drooling thinking about them!

Proper dal makhni with flakey nan bread. We don't live in a part of UK where anything like thst can be bought. It's all disappointing in comparison to India.

Creme de marrons. Absolutely delicious and only available at a big mark up imported.

That’s the sugar, and the bottles!

Oh YES!!!!!!!!! I lived in NM for a while and my god... the food!

Tiny deep fried baby squid in a little restaurant in Lanzarote that was frequented by locals. They tasted like chicken skin with an extra taste of the sea. So, so good.

Dd2 would say Fanta in Italy, their fizzy drinks still have the sugar in and just taste better.

greek fava with home made pitta

proper gyros and souvlaki

I’m living in the US temporarily and I miss literally everything about food in the UK 😭😭😭😭

• The variety of crisps in UK supermarkets is top tier. Here pretty much every crisp is either cheese flavoured (horrible, artificial, bright orange cheese flavour), sour cream flavoured (a flavour I’ve never liked!) or BBQ flavoured (fine but not my favourite).
• Biscuits that aren’t a chocolate chip cookie or an Oreo.
• Supermarket sandwich meal deals
• Pub Sunday roasts
• Great Indian food (there’s not a huge Indian population around my area, so as a result, Indian food isn’t very popular)

Contrary to popular belief that people gain weight in the US, I’ve actually lost a stone and a half (which I couldn’t really afford to lose!) since living in the US because I’m not snacking like I do at home in the U.K. and I’m way more aware of what’s in the junk food 🥴 I know I’ll gain that weight back pretty quickly when we come home because I’ll be eating everything in sight 🫠🫠😂

My dad tricked me when I was a kid into eating octopus when we were in lanzarote 🫠😂😂
It was served breaded and deep fried in rings - he told me they were onion rings. 🫣🫣😂

Poutine Paul!

He did some lockdown deliveries and then poof!

Chinese sticky rice .... biaozi (I used to get a couple on the bus into the mall, best snack ever) .... flakey sesame flatbreads. Various delicious street food snacks that I don't know the names of but were so delicious and if I could get similar here would be £££ and not as nice 😭

Chicken salt!!

I already know I will miss that! Spefifically the ones Smokin' Joe's Pizza put on their (ginormous, crispy on the outside, melty on the inside) fat chips. They look like they are battered, then generously coated in their proprietary salty, sweet, herby, spicy chicken salt crack!

Hagleslag chocolate sprinkles that you put on top of buttered white bread. I also love that the boxes are closer to 99% full rather than 66%.

No, it's not the same with chocolate sprinkles from the baking section in the UK.

I have family in Holland and always get them to bring some over on their annual visit!

I am going to ask my mum to bring a couple of boxes back from Belgium next time she goes.

@HundredMilesAnHour I know it’s not in London but you can get poutine in Cardiff if you are ever nearby!

https://www.poutinebox.co.uk/

For me it’s kaassouffle from The Netherlands, from the snack boxes. I’m not sure why they’ve never been tried here (but if they were I’d be huge )

Local French cheeses, made by a small farmer and sold on a market stall. So, so good and nothing like the French cheeses you can buy in the uk.

Yes! Orange ! Citron ! In a bottle. Love drinking that while watching the world go back from a cafe terrasse.

also love Poms if you know that. . Not allowed jn Europe 😂

…but not African coke . Tastes flat . Not enough fizz.

Probably an odd one but croissants that are you know, croissant shaped! They're all rugby ball shaped in the UK.

If you’re in London have you tried the ones at Dumpling Shack in Spitalfields market ?

Milo chocolate bar - not the drink but a chocolate bar with Milo through it. Slightly crunchy. Just delicious. Fantasise about these!

Lays Campesino crisps - they must be available in the UK somewhere but can't find them for a reasonable price

Sicilian gelato with cream on top. Sicilian pizza.

Sirop de Menthe from France. Especially in the summer. Even the kids mentioning it in the recent heatwaves.

Sri Lankan "short eats" - various savoury snacks filled with fish, egg, meat, in pastry/breadcrumbed, spicy and so moreish.

Delicious veg stew in Istanbul.
Liver with garlic, cumin and grenadine syrup.

They´re calamare (squid). I grew up in Malaga and the amount of times we heard English people say they thought deep fried calamari were onion rings would´ve made me a millionaire by now. Are you sure your father tricked you, or was he as confused himself.