Everybody loves pancakes. And when I say everybody, I mean everybody. I think pretty much every culture has their own variation on a pancake; Wikipedia has a list of all the different types of pancakes served throughout the world, and it’s quite impressive.
I wasn’t planning on eating a trdelník — also known an a chimney cake, or a chimney cone — here in Prague. They’re available back home, plus it’s pretty clear that they’re more of a tourist thing than anything else. You’ll have a hard time finding them outside of tourist hotspots.
Apparently the area around Wenceslas Square — one of the main city squares in Prague — used to be crammed with street vendors selling Czech sausages. But the neighbouring restaurants were unhappy about the stands cutting into their profits, and the city elected to remove most of them.
When you’re googling the best fries in Brussels, Maison Antoine comes up quite frequently. I’m only in Brussels for a couple of days, so I should probably be trying stuff other than fries, but… Fries are delicious. They’re also cheap, which is a rarity in a city as expensive as Brussels.
So yeah, I went to Maison Antoine.
I recently tried a place specializing in fries that was right around the corner from my Airbnb. It was quite good, but nothing about it knocked my socks off.
Frit Flagey, on the other hand, knocked my socks clean off. My feet? Totally bare. My socks? I don’t know, I can’t find them. I think they exploded.
I was wandering around the Mattancherry area of Fort Kochi when I stumbled across a surprisingly busy lassi place. On the sign, right under their name, was the slogan, “Beat the heat, drink lassi.”
Considering that I was completely drenched in sweat at the time, this seemed like a solid idea.
Paneer is a fresh, Indian cheese (it’s a bit cheese-curd-esque, only without that cheese’s gooey meltiness) that’s apparently pretty delicious when you grill it. Because I just had the paneer tikka at Radhey Shyam Bhatia Paneer Wale, and it was extremely satisfying.
There’s a deep fried pastry in India called kachori that’s a popular street food snack. It’s super popular in Jaipur; walk around the city and it won’t be long before you come across a vendor selling the stuff.
A samosa was one of those things I knew I’d have to try at least once before leaving India. Basically anytime you wrap something in dough and deep fry it, it’s going to be delicious. Samosas are not the exception to this rule.
I’ve been seeing carts all over Jaipur serving little bowls of curry with crispy fried bread (a papadum, or papad, I believe) on the side. Obviously, I had to try it.