What food,snack, candy or drink do miss most from your country?

[pedroh 21]

i've found a couple of websites that sell dutch goodies... fritesaus and chocomel!! de enige echte ogm!!! Chocomel > Yoohooo big time

[Nessa 23]

I miss so many things.

- fresh juicy cheap fruits;

- the bakeries everywhere with fresh bread and yummy pastries, like pao de queijo (cheese bread);

- the huge ammount of different chocolate bars (I know there're plenty of chocolate here), but they sell those 180g chocolate bar like this:

- Queijo catupiry (a type of cheese);

- Feijoada (beans stew);

- Pastel (this pastry filled with yummy stuff);

[wioombeen 0]

Now that I am back from a 6 month stay in the Philippines. I really miss their mangoes. maybe its not a candy but its sweet and they are best in the world haha.

[foxtobee 1]

I don't mind the head on seafood. You can determine freshness much easier with the heads still on. I don't understand how grown ppl can still be squeamish about heads on seafood.

They used to be more readily available at most supermarkets but lately I can't find any. I haven't tried a seafood market yet since there aren't any nearby.

My husband misses the fresh fish (whole fish, head on) and dust tea. We've almost run out of the supply of tea he brought with him.

You can't find whole fish where you are?

I freaked the cashier at the grocery store out the other day when I bought head on shrimp. She actually said to me, "eww that's so disgusting", LOL.

I do like head on shrimp, it tasty. I would et them head on too with brain and eyes on. ha ha

[almaty 19]

there was some chocolates, sanita liked from russia..luckily, we found a russian store here in loo that carries them...

[foxtobee 1]

i've found a couple of websites that sell dutch goodies... fritesaus and chocomel!! de enige echte ogm!!! Chocomel > Yoohooo big time

Yes, I miss that too, the chocomel or yoki drink ( yogurth drink in fruity flavors) OMG!!! the mayonaise doesn't taste like anything here either.

[pedroh 21]

i've found a couple of websites that sell dutch goodies... fritesaus and chocomel!! de enige echte ogm!!! Chocomel > Yoohooo big time

Yes, I miss that too, the chocomel or yoki drink ( yogurth drink in fruity flavors) OMG!!! the mayonaise doesn't taste like anything here either.

No.. the mayo here is mayo, not fritesaus ... what I used to drink more than chocomel was chocolate flavored Campina milk, omg i drank like 1lt a day!! also I used to eat/drink a lot of vla

[eric&gen 0]

Now that I am back from a 6 month stay in the Philippines. I really miss their mangoes. maybe its not a candy but its sweet and they are best in the world haha.

I miss the mangoes from the Philippines too i would eat themm for breakfast lunch and dinner almost every day during my stay.

[foxtobee 1]

isn't the nutella that they sell in USA exported from Italia anyway?? or is it made here

I don't know but the Nutella made here tastes horribly gross, it's like eating solid chemicals. But the French Nutella... I have to agree with my husband... oh what a difference. It tastes so much better.

Funny enough, when I asked him if he misses any specifically French foods, he said not really. Just the fresh baked French bread and croissants.

He doesn't even miss all the good French cheeses?? I do even miss those,. Cheese is so expensive here if you want the good kinds like the French ones.

[foxtobee 1]

My USC husband always said we had such great food in the Netherlands. I never gave it a thought, because it so easy to cross the street and load up on all your favorite goodies.

Now that I've been living in the US for almost 9 months I start to realize what he meant>

I do miss:

Fresh milk

Whole grain fresh baked bread

Pickled herring

Smoked herring and eel

Douwe Egberts koffie and Senseo flavors ( they are expensive here )

Licorice ( especially the salty ones)

Cheeses ( all the nice french ones and cumin cheese)

Witlof ( Belgian andives)

Cheap quality wines and beers.

And so much more

nordic house

i know this website isn't dutch, but it is northern european. and they have salty licorice, herrings, and eels...maybe even some cheeses you might like. all of really great quality. my family orders from them constantly! they also have good hotdogs with the casings on them, pate, etc. check it out!

Thank you for the info!!

[jundp 191]

Cheap quality wines and beers.

I'm the USC, but I miss this too I was so surprised at how inexpensive good wine is in Germany...wow. A bottle of mead here (if you can find it) is about $14 in Germany, maybe 3 Euros.

My husband misses his dad's goose liver. He also misses French Nutella (the chocolate/hazelnut spread that tastes like chemicals in America) and Banania, the chocolate milk mix.

If you can find the Canadian Nutella it is the same ingredients as the Euro stuff. There was a whole 2 pages of discussion on this in the German/American thread Also, if you have a Word Market, apparently their house Hazelnut spread is almost identical. I still have to try it out.

[foxtobee 1]

i've found a couple of websites that sell dutch goodies... fritesaus and chocomel!! de enige echte ogm!!! Chocomel > Yoohooo big time

Yes, I miss that too, the chocomel or yoki drink ( yogurth drink in fruity flavors) OMG!!! the mayonaise doesn't taste like anything here either.

No.. the mayo here is mayo, not fritesaus ... what I used to drink more than chocomel was chocolate flavored Campina milk, omg i drank like 1lt a day!! also I used to eat/drink a lot of vla

I do know the difference between frites saus and mayonaise, but they have 'fresh' mayonaise( Remia) made with eggyolk in the Netherlands.

My dad was asking me a few weeks ago what American vla was like ha ha, haven't found it yet.

And wheh, no chocolate milk here beats the ones in the Netherlands. I did like choq, but that one seems to be gone there too.

Or milk and fruit and they recently introduced one with cucumber, which made it the perfect summer drink, hard needed in Arizona.

Edited July 18, 2007 by foxtobee

[Ladylethal 12]

Wow, I miss A LOT of things from Brazil.

- the abundancy of fresh bread, with many different tastes and fillings or seasonings, etc.

- the abundancy of fresh fruit, and a lot cheaper too, here I get bored at the selection I find, they are expensive, not so sweet, and not so varied.

- farofa (it's yucca flour browned with onion and butter).

- the abundancy of meat cuts, bigger, juicer, leaner, cheaper than here.

- passatempo cookies.

- churrasco (brazilian BBQ).

- the japanese sushi bar near my house, that had an all you can order makis, sushi and sashimi for a fixed price (here's SO expensive to eat sushi).

- the ability to buy fresh fish (here I find them frozen only, even though I live in a caribbean island, odd).

- pastel de feira (which are, as Nessa explained, filled fried pastry dough, with fillings ranging from cheese, meats, shrimp to veggies and cinammon bananas). Here I make them 'cus I can find the dough, but it's nothing like one bought in a public market, the dough and the filling isn't just the same.

- sugar-cane juice.

- Fresh squeezed juice from a "lanchonete", not boxed juices, the real deal.

- Bob's fast food joint, with the best milkshake EVER, made with ovaltine.

- thin, thin, thin crust pizza, with nice upscale toppings.

- pizza with a LARGER variety of toppings.

- catupiry (a type of cream cheese).

- mina's cheese (white cheese, but less matured, it leaks water as it's like a young cheese, perfect with french bread).

- the abundancy of cheeses, varied and WAY cheaper than here, even though we consider some of them really expensive there.

- the thin pork sausages we find in butcher shops, nicely seasoned, and crisp when fried.

- real homemade food, all made from scratch.

There's prolly more that I can't think of right now.

[Paulily 0]

I miss green mangoe shake, grilled bangus(milk fish) with lots of tomatoes and onions in the belly, grilled tuna belly, Bibingka, Suman, Puto, my family's dinuguan in Batangas, Halo-Halo, Buko salad, Ginataang Halo- Halo, sapin-sapin, Street foods like Batikolon and pork bb-q, my brother's pancit and lomi .

I miss the smell of SM malls and the big movie cinema's. I want to hear the Taho Vendor shouting in the morning, the Hot Pandesal, the ice cream langka flavor, the fish balls and the kwek-kwek. The beaches in Batangas and Mindoro. The very green mangoe (kinalabaw) with alamang, The sago't gulaman juice, the Barrio Fiesta, Chowking Asado Siopao, Jolibee chicken and Aloha Burger. I miss the comedy bars in Manila and my friends.

Lily

[pedroh 21]

why no USC with filipino SO misses the balut? I saw that on bizarre foods in foot network, it looks tasty