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[DisneyFirefly]

No, they just looked toasted

 

[PrincessInOz]

I'm thinking of posting it on my not PTR....but I'm not sure how to make it fit...

 

[DisneyFirefly]

I haven't got a clue. I'm getting another part of my illustrated itinerary together

 

[PrincessInOz]

Which reminds me about my next 'step'. I have to work on a not illustrated itinerary. Thank goodness the scavenger hunt has finished up. I should have some time to think about 'nots' and taking some shots this weekend.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

That sounds interesting

 

[PrincessInOz]

Where are you? Home or work?

 

[DisneyFirefly]

I'm at work. I work tonight and tomorrow, then I'm off the weekend

 

[PrincessInOz]

I'm at home. DS threw up at school yesterday; so we've decided to have a day off, as a precaution.

I'm going to log off here soon and get some rest. Might catch you later.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Aww, I hope he's feeling well

See you around!

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Aww, I hope he's feeling well

See you around!

 

[franandaj]

Alison - this is for you!! And for everyone else that enjoys food!

This is what we ate at Vue de Monde.

Enjoy!

Thanks for sharing, it all looks unique. I'm not sure how much of those things I would find as delicacies!

You know it must be something about down under. It's not that we would not have enjoyed that dinner, but for us up here, everything is kinda weird! I remember the night we arrived in NZ, that the hotel we were staying at offered a winemaker dinner. We won our trip to NZ at a winemaker dinner so we thought how apropos to start our trip with a dinner like that, but everything was just "off" and that's how we found our whole trip. Everything as "familiar" as it seemed was just never what we expected.

We ended up liking fish and chips the most because it always tasted like we expected. Also Rack of Lamb was a good choice since so many places serve NZ rack of Lamb in the US. I just remember that most meals we ate, if we expected something what we got was not what we expected. We ended up really liking "toasted sandwiches" and as I said Fish and chips. Otherwise we were up for something unexpected. Just becuase y'all speak english doesn't mean that you eat the same things, even McDonald's tasted nothing like it does in the states. But I guess you are used to that when you travel here!

 

[PrincessInOz]

Thanks for sharing, it all looks unique. I'm not sure how much of those things I would find as delicacies!

You know it must be something about down under. It's not that we would not have enjoyed that dinner, but for us up here, everything is kinda weird! I remember the night we arrived in NZ, that the hotel we were staying at offered a winemaker dinner. We won our trip to NZ at a winemaker dinner so we thought how apropos to start our trip with a dinner like that, but everything was just "off" and that's how we found our whole trip. Everything as "familiar" as it seemed was just never what we expected.

We ended up liking fish and chips the most because it always tasted like we expected. Also Rack of Lamb was a good choice since so many places serve NZ rack of Lamb in the US. I just remember that most meals we ate, if we expected something what we got was not what we expected. We ended up really liking "toasted sandwiches" and as I said Fish and chips. Otherwise we were up for something unexpected. Just becuase y'all speak english doesn't mean that you eat the same things, even McDonald's tasted nothing like it does in the states. But I guess you are used to that when you travel here!

Might be something to do with the fact that we add so much less sugar to our food???

How are you doing?

 

[PrincessInOz]

And yes, our downunder food can be a little bit different to that in the US. We have a healthy Asian influence in our food; so the style tends to be fusion. But don't judge Australian cuisine by the NZ food you ate. We are two different countries and all that sheep in NZ does funny things to the locals!

 

[franandaj]

Hmmmm...we don't eat out much so I wouldn't know about the sugar in the food, but I do know what you mean. All those outside places add tons of stuff to their food. That's why I really like to cook my own food. We usually only eat out at really high end restaurants or drive thrus (and I know they overly salt and sugar their food), but we don't eat at many places inbetween!

That was one of the weird things about about our trip down under. We stayed at this wonderful B&B in Napier and the two guys who owned it lived in the main house, they had an amazing orchard on the property and brought an incredible breakfast to our guest house every morning. But since we had a kitchen I was keen to cook us dinner at least one night.

I was astonished by the grocery store which sort of led us through a maze where you went through produce first and they led you through the whole store, there were no aisles, just a maze that you had to follow, don't know if that is how all all the stores were or just that one. We bought T-bone steaks, some veggies and probably a potato or two, but when I got them on the plate and took a taste, it tasted nothing like steak I had ever had before! It was the weirdest thing in my life! They must have fed their cows something like I had never had in the US, that was the only conclusion we could come to. Same thing for the McDonald's situation. Didn't taste at all like expected!

 

[DisneyFirefly]

The only time I've ever been out of the country was a day trip to Vancouver, Canada, so I really have nothing to add to the conversation

 

[PrincessInOz]

We have 'normal' supermarket aisles in Australia. I did say not to judge Australians by NZ standards.
I suspect that it might have been that 'one' store as I don't think I've ever seen a store laid out like that anywhere!

McDonalds will taste different here. There is significantly less sugar added to McDonalds here than over in the US. We can hardly eat fast food in the US because it is so sweet.

Our cattle industry tends to also feed less growth hormones. Because DH is vegetarian, we don't eat much meat and the meat that we do eat is organic. Yes, I know it is an indulgence but then it's just DS and myself and we only eat it about once a fortnight; so I do lash out on the organic meat a little. Organic meat tastes different to the conventional meat and I know our conventional meat tastes different to US meat. My only excuse is that we think that we have the best meat in the world, next to Argentina!

 

[PrincessInOz]

So, what shall we talk about?

 

[PrincessInOz]

Has anyone noticed that we've moved into the 200's??

 

[DisneyFirefly]

I have no idea I'm almost done with for tonight, though.

 

[franandaj]

And yes, our downunder food can be a little bit different to that in the US. We have a healthy Asian influence in our food; so the style tends to be fusion. But don't judge Australian cuisine by the NZ food you ate. We are two different countries and all that sheep in NZ does funny things to the locals!

I have no offense to an Asian influence to food, a lot of CA food is also fusion and I really like that whole fusion idea. I'm just thinking that each of your countries have quite different ideas of food since each of you possibly have a closer tie to the European legacy but including your immigrant legacy, and if you include our immigant legacy, you need to include asian, hispanic and all the various people to the US plus russian and canadian, we have a freakin bizzare cuisine mixture in LA.

In fact I think I would prefer the Asian part of the influence. When I asked Fran before her surgery for a couple last meals they were Shabu Shabu and Teppan! I have the same request before the next one, but Shabu Shabu is the first request. I will be OK, if we don't get to the Teppan!