There is something called “foodsick”?!
As I said in latest post, I do not fit with Peruvian food. That is why I cannot enjoy and explore Peruvian cuisine as much as I can. This is first time I realize how much I love my country and vietnamese cuisine. I have ever craved for eating vietnamese food like this time. I desire to eat “Phở” - the most famous noodles in Vietnam even though I didnt really like it when I was in Vietnam. I miss homemade dishes cooked by my mom, I want to taste foods which are impregnated with fish sauce. I think about vietnamese food whole day and imagine how much I will eat when I go back. I dont feel homesick but “foodsick”. lol.
How to survive in Peru?
And this is how I do to survive in Peru. I always book apartment instead of hotel. It is so convenient and has everything I need. so I bought a lot vegetable and meat to cook at home. You know, ingredient here has really reasonable price but cuisine is so expensive. So cooking at home saves my money and also saves my stomach. I tried to find fish sauce in every supermarket and convenient store, but there is nothing called fishsauce here. lol. So I try to cook vietnamese food without fishsauce. Just with soysauce and salt. Fortunately, my cooking skill is not bad and these are dishes made by me in Peru.
Vegetable with fried pork belly with stired onion and paprika. I didnt have anything to make sauce to eat with those things, so I made a sauce with just salt, lemon and pepper. I was starving. Some bottles of beer will be good. And honestly, I love Peruvian beer.
Noodles with bacon, broccoli, tomato and bean sprouts. I have ever cooked it before but when I found out this kind of noodles in convenient store, I bought it right away and just cook it as my mom used to cook for me. It was not bad. Feel so proud of my cooking skill. Haha.
I am a foodie and originally from Nigeria but now residing in South Africa, I can relate with you about missing home food cooked by your mom.
I also do not miss home that much but I miss the food back home in Nigeria like crazy!
For me it is especially the seafood and mostly crab. I do go to seefood restaurant and and then here but its nothing compared to home cooked seafood where you break the shells of the crab and suck up the sauce enjoying every devine taste of the meal but yeah life do take us away from home and we have to cope with it.
I like the noodles with broccoli how did you prepare the broccoli? I will like to try it.
Omg. Your desscription makes me miss seafood too. Lol. About Broccoli, i just stir it with a bit oil and tomoto, garlic and pepper. When it almost done i put noodles (which was boilded before) and bacon (which is also cooked a bit).
I will definitely try it out I love garlic ! and yes seafood is always lovely for seafood lovers
funny how lives can differ ... one
for diversity
an ancient friend of mine once took off to Peru, sick of living in Hellgium, scrapped all the copper pieces he could find and bought a one-way ticket ...
arrived there with no plan, fell out of money, nearly died from some jungle disease then after pulling through saved up selling self-made stuff on the street, then got the amazingly bright idea to buy half a kilo of cocaine which he found to be amazingly cheap there and send it to himself back to hellgium
by snailmail ...
upon arrival the narcos were waiting at the mailbox to collect him as he collected ....
on survival in Peru ... and diversity,...
another old friend and used-to-be-foreman i met when things were really dark working in the only place that would have me in the night shift , the sleaziest shadiest factory in town did about five years of hard time in Peru for smuggling cocaine back and forth over miami back to Hellgium, where as it turns out you get about nothing, not even a matress to sleep on so he had to pitfight, boxing for money to get a bit of coin to get privileges ... with his brother in law ... then got back to Hellgium where the feds were waiting cos he hadnt done his sentence here yet ...
good times, reminiscence, old friends and memories
sounds so far fetched most people think im a drunk pirate so i rarely bring it up, but your title brought it up hahah
goes to show the difference, being born in the land of no-portunity
surviving is a relative concept, which doesnt make yours any less i hope
only different :p
its way over ten years ago and i wasnt with either of them so wether you choose to believe it or not dont worry about prosecution by the colombian cartel, el santo or the dea for accomplice-by-reading-snuff lulz ... vida loca , its not always shiney
Nice stories. lol. I still doubt about whether or not you were with them. Haha. I should give u an upvote to be safe.
somewhat less nice for those guys when they were there i suppose , and i can assure you, miss, i am a kitten lol ...
https://steemit.com/rudyardcatling/@rudyardcatling/a-short-timeline-if-pictures-say-more-than-words-to-rectify-in-case-fear-is-contagious
ive had my bumps like everyone here but thats five lives ago, vote if you like it, otherwise vote for something you like wherever you find something you like please xD, its a big place ... small compared to fakebook but steadily growing ... steemit requires patience or else you can just see it like a social network with a bonus and as the spanish say que sera , sera (or is that the italians? i keep mixing that up ... duh)
i think id barely recognize a street if i saw one now :p, leave it to the kids to run face first against the wall this country builds in the middle of the social ladder ...
chuc ngu ngon ? if thats what the /vn/ stands for :p
This is so wise of you. Not every can survive in another man's land. Nice one buddy @hanggggbeeee 👌
Hahaaa. Thank you. Just cooking tho
I feel your pain! On my big trip to many countries, I always looked for Mexican food at every city that I stayed in. I also brought my own hot sauce with me. In Asia, I had a lot of nights when I only ate potato chips for dinner because the food in restaurants didn't look very good.
It's good to try new things, but I don't want every meal to be a "cultural experience". Sometimes I just want to eat the food that I know and love.
I don't know if Peru has many Asian grocery stores, but you may be able to ask at Asian restaurants where they buy their ingredients. Then maybe you can buy some fish sauce to bring with you. At the very least, you should be able to find some soy sauce (I know, it's not the same).
You can also ask around at places where a lot of expat westerners hang out. It may be easier to communicate in English, and lots of westerners like to cook food from around the world. They should be able to point you toward some fish sauce. This thread has a little information about finding fish sauce in Peru, but it looks like most stores are in Lima :(
The pasta dish that you made looks delicious!
Lol, you only ate potato chips for dinner? I don't know why that made me laugh. Maybe because it's relatable...I ate purple potato chips for dinner the other night haha.
I love Mexican food too! Good idea bout asking Asian restaurants for ingredients.
món ăn ở đấy có vị gì khiến Hằng k ăn đc thế?
Có mùi đặc trưng của ớt peru. K thể ăn nổi
wow...yummi
😊
this one looks delixious
Really delicious
yeah...
Delicious !!!
😊
That pasta dish looks really good!
Haha. Thank you
pasta looks really healty :))
Yea. With Vegetable is the best haha
I think you have a great cure for the "foodsick blues." Just make some delicious food yourself. Problem solved, and foodsickness cured.
I bet your mother will be proud. Be sure to show her this post next time you meet her!
Yeah. It is great cure but it makes my journey lose a half of experience. Haha.
I will show her absolutely. 😊😊
I think you should treat yourself to some fine dining at a good restaurant, once or twice a week. Save $$ when you cook for yourself, and then treat yourself well at other times.
Food is an essential part of any culture. Therefore, when travelling, you simply MUST eat as much local food as you can. (A good excuse to eat more good food!!)
Yes it's true! Also you can find cheap food in Peruvian restaurants if you look in the right places!
Not about price. It is about flavor. Not fit with me 😂
Mmmmm looks nice @hanggggbeeee!!!
Thumbs up!!!
Ko biết có ai giống c ko chứ đến lúc đó c thèm cái j mặn, cay kinh khủng =))) có khi nếm nước mắm cũng thấy ngon. Nói chung nêm bằng nước mắm là tuyệt nhất. Họ ăn mặn vậy mà ko có cá mắm nhỉ :))
E sắp die vì nhớ đồ ăn việt nam 😔😔😔
I'm from the UK and now reside in Sweden for 10 years , I still miss my uk food , although I have sourced quiet a lot of my favourites now . nice post
your food looks really good!!! I'm jealous haha...I CAN cook, but I need a recipe. I can't just grab random ingredients at the store like you did.
And also I hate cooking...but wish I didn't hate it. I love all of the vegetables you put in your noodles! I can't seem to find any vegetables here in Malaysia haha I miss them so much.
I guess that means I am also "foodsick" haha
I am not good at cooking either but i have no choice. Cook or starve. Hahaa. Throw everything in and cook. Peruvian foood have strong smell from peruvian chili pepper powder (?!) which I cant eat 😔
Oh too bad. I liked exploring Peruvian food. Excited about Vietnamese good as well.
Don't eat the cut... I definitely can't imagine you liking that haha