Food from Overseas
Hello readers!
After two long months of travelling, I am back in beautiful Sydney town. Absence surely makes the heart grow fonder, yes?
I’ve actually been back for a while but haven’t had the time to blog since I’ve started full time work. So apologies for the delay!
My trip was divided into two parts: Asia and then the United States.
Let’s start off with a quick look at some food that I ate in Shanghai.
Warning: only click ‘read more’ if you’re ready for a pic-heavy post!
We stayed at Le Royal Meridien with a room rate that included daily buffet breakfast.
This was quite possibly one of the best buffet breakfasts that I had ever been to! While my travelling companion snoozed away in the morning, I made sure that I was down there, trying as much as possible! There was an omelette chef, a sushi chef, a person dedicated to slicing and replenishing the fresh fruit…
Here is an example of what I ate at breakfast.
A good daily buffet breakfast is one of the highlights of travelling and this hotel put out an amazing spread.
I did try some traditional Shanghainese dishes….
Can you believe that I only had xiao long baos once in Shanghai??? Crazy!
The above were some sort of glutinous, slightly savoury puddings. I didn’t really like these and my Shanghainese friend gave me a verbal bashing for daring to dislike them.
One of the more interesting things that I ate was this:
Deep fried crab on a stick!
They were sold by a street vendor at the People’s Square. Bathed under a glowing yellow light, they looked like they would be piping hot and I couldn’t resist.
Unfortunately, it was practically inedible. This wasn’t a soft shell crab, it was hard shell! Not only that, it was cold. Fail.
Although I was in China, I still looked for my favourite type of food – Japanese.
Above is a bowl of ramen that looks great but didn’t taste great. It was lukewarm, the ramen noodles stuck together and it was just bleurgh.
At one restaurant, I ordered a California roll and was amused by the presentation.
It also came with a plastic hand glove! No mess!
As it turns out, this wasn’t a traditional California roll as it had kiwi fruit in it!!
Lastly, one night we went out to a Japanese all-you-can eat restaurant. Think Suminoya, but without the grill. It cost a measly 30 AUD each and we went nuts with the ordering. Here is a small sample of what we ate that night…
Mango ice cream
Agedashi tofu
Drinks were included with the set price…including alcoholic drinks! I think that green thing with melon vodka and that short glass was peach milk vodka???
If I ever go back to Shanghai, I would definitely hit up that all-you-can-eat place again – talk about value for money!!! If memory serves me correctly, there wasn’t even a time limit!
Stay tuned for the next instalment of Taiwan….