Thread: Western Foods You Miss and WANT

Originally Posted by Takeovers

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

The Midget makes rye bread at home. Tastes great and is made properly without all the crap they add to bread here.

So you can buy rye flour, no need to bring it in yourself?

Yep. Tops have it as do the Thai Miller's company (not that I have managed to find it yet).

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Takeovers

So you can buy rye flour, no need to bring it in yourself?

Yep. Tops have it as do the Thai Miller's company (not that I have managed to find it yet).

Then I would be able to live in Thailand. For the Philippines I need to bring my own. The people selling rye bread import the rye themselves I am sure.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Sorry, I only know about proper English sausages.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by peterpan::: I love bangers of all types but mainly the Chorizo

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Tesco have them. Not too bad, not great either.

Sorry, I've forgotten, where abouts in England is Spain?

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Sorry, I've forgotten, where abouts in England is Spain?

In the South West, I believe.

Originally Posted by Bower

Arrive Bangkok next Friday, here is a list of requirements sent by my Brit mates:

Tubes of Colemans English mustard.
Tins of kippers in brine
Tea,Tetley's or PG tips
Bisto gravy
Plain Bournville chocolate digestive biscuits
HP sauce
KP peanuts
Marmite
English strong Cheddar cheese
Branston pickle
Tins sardines
Snuff...yuk

Can get all of that in Udon Thani, from an ex-pat food shop called Chern Chim, except the snuff.

I miss real Cornish Pasties.
Pukka Pies.
British Fish and Chips, from Padstow, Cornwall. Fried in Beef Dripping.
Birds Eye frozen peas, the ones here are like BB gun pellets.

Originally Posted by Udonite

Birds Eye frozen peas, the ones here are like BB gun pellets.

The Waitrose peas in Tops are crap, the ones from Tesco are pretty good.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by genghis61

What I miss is a bloody good bloody steak.

Had a lovely inch thick aged New Zealand steak the other day. Yummy.

Naaah! What you ectually had was a luvverly ench thuk aged New Zealand steak, bro!

Originally Posted by grasshopper

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by genghis61

What I miss is a bloody good bloody steak.

Had a lovely inch thick aged New Zealand steak the other day. Yummy.

Naaah! What you ectually had was a luvverly ench thuk aged New Zealand steak, bro!

It started out like that, but was cooked a la Anglaise, so it went a bit chav once on the plate.

Originally Posted by Bower

During my travels in Asia,Europe and Africa, i always feel the need for a decent cup of tea and so take tea bags with me.( Happy to drink green tea in Asia though)
I have seen Liptons tea all over the world, its piss water ! its the worst cup of tea, who buys and drinks this shi*e ? Its called 'English Breakfast Tea' i dont know anyone in England who would use this muck and i dont think i have even seen it for sale in the UK.

What it is the tea bags are water proof

A mate of mine brought me some cheese from Holland fuk me it was out of this would dont ask me the name coz i've trown the packet away now, but it had a red wine taste to it the cheese was a hard cheese and kind of crunchy

Originally Posted by Dug

A while back I discovered in my little town in China, the wet market. or rather out the back of the wet market where the restaurants go to buy all there stuff in bulk. From Fresh salmon to imported NZ beef. I've been buying there for a while now and it pays to look around because the stock varies. A couple of weeks ago I got 5 KG of beautifully marbled NZ sirloin steak. Never seen or tasted anything like it in my life.
This last weekend I got a pile of lamb chops (2 racks, 13 chops in each rack) bloody delicious Rack of lamb for dinner on Sat with roast spuds and peas. That was comfort food if ever there was.
I'm with LT on the beetroot, don't even see it for sale here (same with avocados for some reason). A hamburgers not a hamburger without beetroot.
I picked up a 2 1/2 kilo block of aussie mature cheddar while I was at the wet market this weekend as well.
Can't find decent mustard no matter how hard I look though, just that crap colemans yellow stuff.
I really miss meat pies, even a microwave one from the servo would be good.
And weetbix, I love it for breakfast. The best I can do is go to Shenzhen and get weetabix, a reasonable pommy substitute, but still not the real deal.
And while we're on the subject, gravy mix.

I've seen beetroot here in Phuket

Avocado spread on toast sprinkled with black pepper and a squeeze of lemon.

Ham bones.

Originally Posted by Dug

And weetbix, I love it for breakfast. The best I can do is go to Shenzhen and get weetabix, a reasonable pommy substitute, but still not the real deal.

Hilarious!

Wheat Chex, Rice Chex, Nabisco Shredded Wheat.

Originally Posted by Udonite

Birds Eye frozen peas, the ones here are like BB gun pellets.

Tolley's frozen peas from New Zealand. You can get them in Tops.

I miss Dr. Pepper, Irn Bru and Cherry Coke.

I miss the Indian food from here, The Raj Restaurant On the Shore

Particularly the Bengal Tiger and the Green Bengal Chicken. Not exactly Western, but shits on any of the Indian food outside of the UK.

Originally Posted by Nostradamus

Dr. Pepper

Looked high and low and never found in LoS.

Originally Posted by Nostradamus

Cherry Coke

Make my own. Regular coke with a splash of Maraschino Cherry juice.

OK. I give in.

You can't get a proper curry here (Fuck off with yer Mrs Balbir bollocks) or real beer.

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by Nostradamus

Dr. Pepper

Looked high and low and never found in LoS.

Originally Posted by Nostradamus

Cherry Coke

Make my own. Regular coke with a splash of Maraschino Cherry juice.

Dr. Pepper.........yes, that is another item I miss. But if you are a US citizen I think, not totally sure, that there is a Coke machine inside the US Embassy that has Dr. Pepper in it.

For some reason I just thought of that Tom Cruise movie where they break into the "company" to steal a disk

Any takers?

As an aside, I did see Dr. Pepper tucked away in the corner of a fancy department store in China. A bit too far to go.

Roses Sweetened Lime Juice. Cannot make a proper vodka gimlet without it.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

OK. I give in.

You can't get a proper curry here (Fuck off with yer Mrs Balbir bollocks) or real beer.

To be fair, you can't get a "proper" curry in UK either. But some how, I do miss those UK curries....

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Dug

And weetbix, I love it for breakfast. The best I can do is go to Shenzhen and get weetabix, a reasonable pommy substitute, but still not the real deal.

Hilarious!

Pardon me for asking but what's hillarious about that?