Foodie Friday: Foods I Miss
20 Jul
When you live in a different country, you can’t always find your favorite foods. These are the foods I miss from the US. After making this list, I realized that it’s the common everyday foods that I miss. Stuff that I would happily eat every day and never get tired of. I do miss my favorite DC restaurants too though.
I ate salad constantly when I lived in DC. I made my own and sometimes went through two big bags of fresh spinach in a week. The best salads though were from the Whole Foods salad bar. They have a huge selection of beans, grains, cheeses, dressings, greens, etc. Their caesar dressing is filled with parmesan cheese and consuming it with the other dozen toppings is a euphoric experience. It was basically my favorite thing to eat ever. Salads are possible in Korea, but they’re usually expensive to construct and not that great.
I used to eat canned beans all the time, especially chickpeas. These are hard to find. I would put them on salads, in pasta (delicious), even make them into sandwich spreads or burgers. Basically eat them all the time.
Maybe this should be included under beans, but I really miss hummus. I eat it here occasionally at Jordanian restaurants, but that’s a far cry from going through big delicious tubs of it every week.
Fruit and sandwiches are both things that I eat regularly in Korea, but I miss the variety, quality, and ubiquity of them in the US. (Well fruit quality isn’t too much different here, but it’s kind of expensive.)
I don’t know if I’m quite as obsessed with pesto as Rachel, but it’s sooooo gooood. I haven’t found any here that I would consider great. The pesto toast from Melaka was excellent.
So this is just what I miss. You’ll notice that there are no drinks, no desserts, and no heavily processed foods. I find that I can find everything I need in those categories everywhere I go. What foods do you miss when you’re away from home? OR What foods do you think you would miss?
Hey Jeff and Rachel,
When in Canada I miss food from NZ but now the reverse is true also.
In Canada I miss NZ foods like: Feijoa, Apricot flavoured things, flat whites, jaffas, Hubbards cereals, vogels bread, better cadbury’s chocolate, marmite and biscuits (like double coat tim tams)
In NZ I miss canadian (or north american foods like): cinnamon buns, bagels, better corn chips and salsa, candied pecans, hot dogs, tuna sushi, tea Lemonade, donuts and more varieties of M&Ms (like coconut, dark chocolate and mint).
Rachel do you miss anything from NZ?
I do miss a few specific things! I got really into Monteith’s Radler (but I found it in Seoul at an import market! couldn’t believe it). Also: fries and aioli from Velvet Burger. Biscuits from Coupland’s Bakery. And there was this amazing dip that they sold at New World, I think it was feta something or other. There is actually Hell Pizza in Seoul too! We had it a couple weeks ago – yum.
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I would definitely miss yummy pesto if I was in a country without any!
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The Whole Foods salad bar and canned beans are high on my list of missed items. I also really miss guacamole (or cheap and readily available avocados). Or cheap and readily available western food products in general. I feel like I can get most things here I want but they are expensive and you have to go out of your way to find them.
I’m sure I’ll be saying that about Korean food products when I return home, though
Oh, and Costco has a pretty decent pesto in a huge tub. I freeze it and it lasts for a long time!
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