by KYYX4ever » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:58 am
[quote][i]Originally posted by marvymarv[/i]
<br> Best dim sum.... Best sushi...Best Thai....Vietnamese? Same Thailand trip but this time we took a day excursion to where they filmed Bridge Over the River Kwai, close to the Vietnamese border. It was crazy. Eating rice out of coconuts and fish wrapped in banana leaves. God, I love food. I saw something in this thread about shark....
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marv, you and I need to go out to eat sometime. I LOVE eating delicious and unusual food, especially in delicious and unusual locales, and the way you described your gustatory adventures arouses my senses ! Yum !
If you can eat amazing food in an amazing place, that REALLY makes the experience for me (altho I've had superb food at little holes-in-the-wall, too!). The ambiance, the noise, hearing other languages, the not-quite-knowing-what-exactly-was-on-the-menu, I love all that.
Having said that, best seafood I ever had was in Faro, Portugal. This is the southern Algarve coast (same place as that unsolved little missing British girl story ). You walk into the restaurant and there is a big display case in the entrance with the day's catch. You point to what you want and they take it out and go prepare it for you. Fresh off the dock ! I had the most amazing squid, and my husband had these enormous sardines ([i]nothing[/i] like the ones in a can !), and you could taste the ocean, it was so fresh. Oh, and the sangria came in a big jar with tons of peeled fruit slices in it, oh my gosh, delicious.
Sorry to have babbled...I love delicious food. Marv, you really got my mouth watering...
next:
Cajun....