What’s the one food you wish for but can’t get in your area (but really want)?

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Inspired slightly by the saveloy thread and those no longer able to attain one.

I went to Key West 6 years ago and I’m still dreaming about the fish tacos. I’ve tried making myself and I can’t get it right. Not a single place in my Midlands city sells fish tacos. I so want them to become popular - can you Deliveroo them in London?

Also Vietnamese. Went to a fab restaurant in China Town and again have had various attempts but not been very successful.

What are you craving that’s hard to get hold of?

Who was it that wanted pie & mash? Manze's and Arments in SE London both deliver UK-wide! Liquor and eels optional. armentspieandmash.com

I've worked out what my missed food is - it's really good Turkish. There's fine to average Turkish takeaways in our bit of London, but nowhere like as good as the places on Green Lanes, which is about an hour away.

Laverbread

Shawarma

@Yesterdayforgotten

'I was so disappointed when I finally got my first taste of pumpkin pie!'

I was like that with pecan pie, love pecans but hated the congealed jelly like filling, it wasn't anything like I imagined 🤢

It should be more treacly shouldn’t it, rather than jelly-like? Maybe it’s just the one I tried.

Attempted it at home and it just tasted burnt as I overcooked the pecans

@DelphineWalsh do you mean the stuff that comes in plastic containers direct from the farms?

I watched a programme where Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was drinking scrumpy. The bloke he was talking to said that the basic types are Dancing cider and Fighting cider.

@Dillo10

A proper Bahn Mi baguette .. used to have them all the time when I worked in Soho

I miss a paneer and paratha roll from the Kati Roll company in Soho. Absolutely delicious and proper authentic Indian lunch food.

I absolutely LOVE thai food but I live in a 99.5% white town that is 15 years behind everybody else in the uk. We have 8 kebabys that are on just eat and two chinese that are too nervous to join so collection only. One indian that also refuses to join just eat. During lock down I found out that there is infact a thai lady that married a local and every saturday and sunday they do pop up markets all over the northwest. But as they were closed they were offering their food to order for collection instead. I spent £25 every single week and the Tom Kha soup was to die for. They did the most amazing fusion pies 3 for £5 too and they were just perfect. Thai fish cakes too, totally not what I was expecting but WOW! Now they are back to doing pop ups and dont deliver anymore. So I would have to travel 25 miles to get food that is produced 1/2 mile from me. So I am slowly building my own ingredients up so I can try it myself.

Stifado from my favourite restaurant in Corfu. I have tried many but none of them come close to this one place. Huge chunks of rich melt in the mouth beef and beautiful baby pearl onions. Perfect with garlic mash and a nice glass of something cold. Washed down with their hot home made baklava and vanilla ice cream.

Wait, do they not sell tomato sausages in other areas of the country 😱

I'm not Serbian but I'd love to get hold of a good bottle of Medovaca (in east London)

@MadisonMontgomery

Wait, do they not sell tomato sausages in other areas of the country 😱

No they don’t! Please describe/share pic of you have one, I’m very intrigued!

@MadisonMontgomery

Wait, do they not sell tomato sausages in other areas of the country 😱

I’ve never heard of tomato sausage - what is it? Is it a link or square sausage with tomato in it?

This thread has right put me in the mood for a pizza crunch...

Poutine. Used to have it mid-morning on Canadian ski trip, it's the most delicious thing I have ever eaten. Can't get proper poutine here for love nor money, although I'm sure the fact I'm not eating it on the ski slopes has something to do with it.

Sushi and Thai. My friend in London doesn't even ask when I go to see her in the big city now, just places the Sushi order to arrive when my train gets in!

From holiday, fresh Caribbean food. Rice and peas and plantain or curry roti. But I mostly want to be eating that because I want to be the sun SO badly!

Lahmacun. I used to work in NE London a bit and miss the Turkish Cafés. We have Turkish restaurant s here, but nowhere I can get lahmacun. Also flammkuchen - I can get them once a year at the Christmas market and that's it.

@Sophoa none to be had of any calibre in Liverpool. There's a lovely hipstery bagel cafe who do tasty bagels but I am after that very particular sour softness. Just baked, still warm brick lane bagels, with a ladle of cream cheese and hunk of smoked salmon at 3am after a lot to drink is possibly what I'm really after.

Also Caneles.

A good, proper Northern chippy..! Cheese & onion pie, chip barm etc.

Live in Canada and cannot find a proper British Indian Curry House for love nor money

I also wish I could get these amazing lamb kebabs sold on Melbourne Victoria Market - they were beyond perfect. Lamb, a perfect bread roll, mayo, lettuce. Not hard, right?! Apparently so..

@BlueBirdGreenFence

Soda bread. And wheaten bread. Miss both desperately.

And Veda!

Spanish toast. The breakfast bread on holidays always tastes yummy

@ivftake1 I love it there! They’re our go to post-shopping or post-afternoon drinking snack

Ribs. Ohhh BBQ ribs... from a 'BBQ rib festival' in Ontario. Nothing like it in the UK - I went to a restaurant that boasted proper Texas BBQ ribs - not a patch on the ones I had in Ontaria.

2 things, 1 each from my two most exotic holidays:

Ackee and saltfish. I could probably make it, but it just wouldn't taste the same as it did on a terrace at breakfast in Jamaica.

Piments farci - deep fried, stuffed peppers as made in Réunion. The most amazing things I've ever tasted, bought at a stall in the supermarket with the best view in the world, overlooking the Indian Ocean. I've actually started experimenting with these, because I can't accept I'll never taste them again.

@hoochymamgu I have laverbread in my cupboard at all times! A staple.

Food from Ask Italian - before lockdown it was our go to 'can't be bothered to cook' restaurant. But then the bastards shut all of the ones within reasonable travelling distance.

Plenty of Zizzi's left but they are shite