Food, Part 3

All right, it's time for more food photos! We certainly have tasted some wonderful things. Indeed, there's hardly been a single meal here that I have not enjoyed - I'm usually a big fan of local/traditional food, and the Germans just have good taste. Granted, I'm not as much into sausage as any good German is, nor am I quite so much a fan of processed breakfast meats as some would wish me to be. But... the kinds of things we are served for breakfasts and lunches, and the kinds of things we find ourselves for dinners and weekend meals, are usually all quite enjoyable.

I should also give a disclaimer. The foods shown in these pictures (and in the previous food entries) may seem to be too much of a good thing, and you may be wondering if we ever eat normal or healthy foods! But I remind you that these are just a handful of the dinners and desserts we've had; the majority of our meals are either too "normal" or too "healthy" to bother taking a picture of (e.g. you already know what a pizza or a continental breakfast look like). So... these pictures are not perfectly representative of our time here, just of the highlights. :)


This is Ukrainische Soljanka, a delightfully spicy, sweet-n-sour soup that I had in Dresden. The others here laugh because I bring up "my Ukrainische Soljanka" rather often. It probably ranks as #3 or #4 on my list of top favourite meals so far.


Sweet-n-sour chicken, also had in Dresden. One wouldn't think of Chinese as quite the thing in Germany... but actually this was some of the best and most authentic Chinese food we'd ever had!


Hirschgoulasch, in a charming Füssen restaurant. What you're seeing is venison and bread dumplings in a strongly-flavoured gravy (and fruit on the side). This is among my top favourite meals.


Scrambled eggs and ham in Prague. Some of you may know me well enough to know how amazing it was that I chose eggs... :)


Svíčková, one of the most traditionally Czech of all Czech meals. Also had in Prague. And also among my very top-most favourites. It is basically roast beef with dumplings in a cream sauce, served with cranberries and cream. I had this meal last year in Prague and have basically dreamed about it ever since. :) I am debating within myself whether this meal ranks as #2 or #1 so far. The Sauerbraten we had the first weekend here was so very good...


A four-flavour ice cream sundae. Last night three of us were absolutely craving ice cream. This is certainly not an unusual thing, but what was unusual was that we took action. After a few hours window shopping in town, we headed to another Italian place near here where we knew there was good ice cream. Delightful.

I wish that I had remembered my camera for a few other meals lately. On Valentine's Day, four of us girls went to a local Italian restaurant, where I had a lovely "Italian" salad (quite similar to a chef salad in America). In Prague I had soup two meals in a row, and very delightful soup it was (salmon cream soup for lunch, Czech potato soup for dinner). And last Monday night a few of us found a tiny Chinese restaurant here in Amberg, at which I had some amazing spicy chicken curry (the "sauce of coconut milk and Thai curry" really stole my heart). But alas, the camera was neglected on those occasions.