Surprisingly delicious

[JAS]

OK...I know you all love your food...you proved that with the response to the list of food I should try when I get to OZ...so lets try this.

List food/meals you've had that was surpisingly good...not the meals you'd expect to be great like 5* restaurants but the ones that shouldn't be good...like a school meal, a roadside snack van or even hospital food.

Here's mine

Firstly a school dinner...hot chocolate sponge with chocolate flavoured custard/sauce or if that ran out the strawberry version.

The best...a Madras style beef curry with onion rice and raita and freshly made naan bread...in an Army field kitchen tent in the Falklands 1998...I love curry and it was better than anything I've ever had in an Indian restaurant...sex on a plate*...once word got round the place was mobbed.

Regards
JAS

[godoubleblues]

The best...a Madras style beef curry with onion rice and raita and freshly made naan bread...in an Army field kitchen tent in the Falklands 1998...I love curry and it was better than anything I've ever had in an Indian restaurant...sex on a plate*...once word got round the place was mobbed.

Regards
JAS

I must admit that some of my best meals have been out bush with the army after spending a couple of weeks on ration packs then coming back into a base where the cooks have slapped something together, even something as simple as sausages and veg

[SABRE]

Great topic JAS, our favourite 4 letter words - Food, Beer, Wine etc.
No contest for me....
.... Pie floaters from the original Norwood Pie Cart when it was parked outside the Shell (now a cinema & shops) on The Parade. Two brothers ran it & they had the best pies and home-made pea soup going around. Reckon they saved a lot of young blokes lives by sobering them up after ‘big nights on the turps’. If you were a regular they knew well & short of readies, you could get a feed and pay next time.

How can a dish that looks so disgusting the first time, taste so heavenly forever more ?
Oh yeah, that's right

[JK]

I loathed Avacado for 27 years before I accidentally ate it and discovered who nice it is.

BTW JAS, how could you have expected NOT to like that choc pudding feed, sounds awesome!!

[A Mum]

About 20 years ago JJ's cafe at Victor Harbor they used to make a chocolate fudge pudding.
It was the best chocolate pudding type thing I have ever tasted.
I cannot not explain it, and will do it no justice...lol.
But it used to have a chocolate sauce that would crispen up, served with cream
Heaven

[JAS]

I loathed Avacado for 27 years before I accidentally ate it and discovered who nice it is.

BTW JAS, how could you have expected NOT to like that choc pudding feed, sounds awesome!!

It was...and I'm sure it still is...but it's school dinners...almost everything else they cooked was almost toxic but we ate it just to get that puddin' (that was the rule...finish everything else or no pud)

Haha...I still didn't like avacado even after tasting it.

Regards
JAS

[devilsadvocate]

A Bulls Bollox from the Earl of Liecester - OMG, I still consider rubbing one out over the taste of those things and I haven't had one for 2 years (a bulls bollox that is ). Straight to the Earl when I land back in RADelaide.

A 1 Euro burger from a roadside stall in Montenegro. I was in Montenegro for 36 hours and had 9 of them. The hotel (an old soviet war hospital which was still being used for mental patients ) served absolute tripe, so it was roadside burgers brekky, lunch and dinner. Brekky required some foreplanning while boozed on the walk back to the hotel.

A 2 Euro gyros in Corfu in Greece - kick ass kebab.

The chicken shish kebabs in the Kyber Pass Pakistani restaurant in Slough, UK. £5 for the best kebab in the world, made with naan bread, plus chips and a DC - heaven.

Finally, the missus' roasts. Amazingly good.

[Lunchcutter]

i find it hard to drive past the steak van at the cavan hotel - also
the bolivar road house has great truckie type food.. awesome after a session

[JAS]

The best...a Madras style beef curry with onion rice and raita and freshly made naan bread...in an Army field kitchen tent in the Falklands 1998...I love curry and it was better than anything I've ever had in an Indian restaurant...sex on a plate*...once word got round the place was mobbed.

Regards
JAS

I must admit that some of my best meals have been out bush with the army after spending a couple of weeks on ration packs then coming back into a base where the cooks have slapped something together, even something as simple as sausages and veg

Had some bloody dreadful food out of a field kitchen too though...but that curry was truly exceptional...had squadies trying to sneak in* from the other side of the island at one point

Talking of rat packs got me thinking...nothing better after a day helping to fill sandbags or some such carp than having a big brew and your tin of cheese possessed sliced up with your packet of dog biscuits...heaven. I'm guessing your packs would have had something similar
*edit* Should add that these are the ones before they brought out the fancy boil-in-the-bag stuff. oooooh and 'babies heads' was always a favourite too...individual tinned steak and kidney puddings.

Regards
JAS

[Dirko]

One that always sticks. In Ho Chi Minh City, after spending a couple of months of eating in excellent but dirt cheap places, the missus and I decided to eat in a more "upmarket" restaurant.

We had Vietnamese style "Salt n Pepper, Frogs Legs". Fan Bloody Tastic...... That'll always live on the taste buds...

[smac]

Chicken "something or others" from a streetside grill in Phuket. It looked disgusting, eaten out of desperation (couldn't wait any longer for food) and finished up staying for about an hour tasting everything they had. Still don't know what they were but still remember the magnificent taste.

[The Ash Man]

Salt 'n' Pepper crickets in Laos only a month ago
Bloody fantastic!

[Dirko]

Salt 'n' Pepper crickets in Laos only a month ago
Bloody fantastic!

Fantastic place Laos !! Sensational waffles from the street vendors in Luang Prabang !!

[The Ash Man]

Salt 'n' Pepper crickets in Laos only a month ago
Bloody fantastic!

Fantastic place Laos !! Sensational waffles from the street vendors in Luang Prabang !!

It sure is
Tubing in Vang Vieng was one of the best things I have ever done
And there is not too many tourists

[the joker]

Volcano Pizzas at Waterbom park Bali are good

[Dirko]

one Beer Lao !! mmmmm

[The Ash Man]

Volcano Pizzas at Waterbom park Bali are good

Indeed
Escept I ended having to get the dr to my room cos I sat in a tube all day going round that slow moving river thing
I dont wear sunscreen ever (it gives you cancer) and ended up with massive water blisters on my shoulders that had to be lanced
Painful yet memorable!!!

[The Ash Man]

one Beer Lao !! mmmmm

How good are the happy hours!
9am - 8pm!!

[Pseudo]

The best kebabs in Europe - and possibly the best junk food of any form on the entire planet - are obtained from the kebab shops up in Montmartre, Paris; on the main drag between the Sacre Coeur cathedral and the nudie clubs at Pigalle. These things came with hot chips actually inside the kebab. Full of artery-clogging obesity-inducing badness, and absolutely effing delicious to boot. Been years since I was in Paris, but next time I go there I'll be making a beeline for Montmartre. Bugger the pate foie gras and choucroute - Montmartre kebabs are REAL FOOD!

Also worth a mention: go to any scrubby Hawker's Centre in Singapore and order a laksa. Far, far superior to ANY laksa you will find over here, and much cheaper.

Curry in the UK is consistently superior to any comparable dish over here. Likewise Mexican food in the USA shows up the Aussie equivalent for the cheap and nasty junk food that it is.

I should add that the Haggis, Neeps and Tatties I sourced from a tourist pub on Edinburgh's Royal Mile was surprisingly good - given what the stuff is made from...

[Q.]

The best kebabs in Europe - and possibly the best junk food of any form on the entire planet - are obtained from the kebab shops up in Montmartre, Paris; on the main drag between the Sacre Coeur cathedral and the nudie clubs at Pigalle. These things came with hot chips actually inside the kebab. Full of artery-clogging obesity-inducing badness, and absolutely effing delicious to boot. Been years since I was in Paris, but next time I go there I'll be making a beeline for Montmartre. Bugger the pate foie gras and choucroute - Montmartre kebabs are REAL FOOD!

Duly noted!!!