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Overseas / foreign food you miss?

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ClawsandEffect · 12/07/2025 10:27

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.

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beguilingeyes · 18/07/2025 11:20

HundredMilesAnHour · 15/07/2025 10:10

Proper poutine. There was a Canadian guy (usually hungover 😂) who had a poutine stall on Sundays on Brick Lane but he seems to have disappeared. So now no proper poutine unless I go to Canada. 😥 You can get most things in London (including decent xiao long bao) if you know where to go but sadly poutine is missing.

We too pine for the Poutinerie stall in Brick Lane. The only other place we've found is a Canadian bar in Covent Garden called the Maple Leaf.

beguilingeyes · 18/07/2025 11:28

New Orleans food. We live in London and usually when we come back from holiday we can find most food in London, but not that. The bbq shrimp. Mmmmm...
Ban and Jerry's Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz ice cream. The best coffee ice cream. used to be able to get it here but not any more. Every time we cross the Atlantic we make a beeline for a Ben and Jerry's

Sweetleftfood · 18/07/2025 11:30

Laska2Meryls · 15/07/2025 13:43

Proper Danish Remoulade in the tubes ..
Luckily my Danish SIL and BIL knows to bring it over on visits ..

I'm sure you know but Scandi Kitchen in London sell them, they do deliver if not in London

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LesLavandes · 18/07/2025 11:35

All produce from Provence

ClawsandEffect · 18/07/2025 12:18

northerngoldilocks · 18/07/2025 10:37

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

Sadly I'm not. I would pay a lot for a good xiao long bao.

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flyingpukeko · 18/07/2025 13:02

ClawsandEffect · 18/07/2025 12:18

Sadly I'm not. I would pay a lot for a good xiao long bao.

You can buy frozen ones from Chinese supermarkets but of course they are no where close to real xiaolongbao. If you ever go on a long hual, transisting in Shanghai or other major cities you can now enter without a visa for 10 days and eat as much as you canGrin

MsNevermore · 18/07/2025 15:43

Katiesaidthat · 18/07/2025 11:15

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.

Based on his reaction…..he absolutely knew they weren’t onion rings 😂😂😂

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