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Q: What food from your home country do you miss most here?
You can get a lot of things especially in the big cities..but it is often not quite right! I always miss bagels (NYC area, can't make the same elsewhere) and mac and cheese 
Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. Who has an oven? 
Thakkudu:
u can easily make that in china.... Ovens are soo cheap here.. (smaller ones) check in metro
Good dairy products such as cheese and butter. Also good bacon and bread.
Bagels can be made anywhere, actually it's very easy..
Trick #1 need the right water ( a lot of water) to make a dough and them boil them not steam (as everybody looks for shortcuts) mountain water bottle will do.(need a lot of bottles)
Trick #2 a right oven if don't have one handy, put the ice cubes in the oven at the very start. So the outside don't get too crispy too fast while inside is still raw.
I don't miss anything, maybe teawurst and the snails, European snails are the best, sauteed in the buttery garlic sauce with the splash of lemon plus artichoke hearts on the side. and fresh baquette . yummy.
Guacamole, smoke salmon, barbequed meat (American style), and more...I am going to get so fat when I go home this August.
3. beef roast with potatoes and carrots.
2. tacos (especially fish tacos)
1. a proper sandwich
Full roast sunday dinner
Battered fish, chips and mushy peas
Proper chunky meat pie with chips and gravy
And christmas dinner with a big roast turkey and all the trimmings ( best meal of the year )
Real French bread! You can buy a loaf, take it home and tear it apart piece by piece. Butter optional. Garlic and oil might hit the spot. MmmmMmMMmMmm ...
Many things, but mostly cheese, and just having chocolate in desserts as a normal thing.
The type that doesn't come with rich coatings of growth hormones or promoters, plastic substitutes, chemical residues, bleach, paint, urine or other objectionable substances.
Cheese, good donuts, vegemite, sausages, and pub lunches
Big veggie burrito with melted cheese and extra guacamole. M_m
Well, I was fortunate to live in a Mexican culture place. Mexican food is The Best. Full Stop.
MEAT< LOTS AND LOTS OF MEAT, I'm going home Monday, warm up the barbie---- with no bone splinters
Decent back bacon (smoked or un-smoked) though recently one place in Guangzhou has been stocking it. I'd even tried imported Canadian & American bacon once or twice but it was barely better than standard Chinese bacon.
Gried pierogies (sp?) with onions and sour cream. hot wings. Gyro. Rare steak. Good beer.
fresh bread:
everything from white sliced pan to the wide varieties of brown and rolls.
any of the 'bread' i have tasted in China just tastes like cake or is stale
I agree with the "fresh bread" and a variety of it............ but also a good piece of a cow...prime rib in particular.....but any old roast (rump!! roast) or a good beef steak. The seafood is great but we all know.....variety is "the spice of life", and the longer I stay, the more Chinese food becomes just that ...Chinese food....same old same old stuff.
sorrel:
i could add
the smell of bread fresh from the oven when you walk into a bakery, knowing that if you bring it home, you can cut it open and watch the butter melt slowly.
The crusts from a French bread stick that crunch when you bite into it.
Artisan bread with sunflower or sesame seeds on the top, giving it an extra special flavour.
baking your own brown bread and eating it with honey
i could go on.......
breakfast menu
ham and eggs, steak and eggs, sausage and eggs, bacon and eggs ...toast and hash brown.... had enough eggs..boiled (soft, medium hard) fried (over easy, basted, sunny side up....poached, ... scrambled egg .... omelet (with whatever you want (spanish is my fav.(spicy)
french toast and your own variety of toppings
pancakes ...variety of toppings and fillings
waffles .... god I'd love a good peach waffle right now ...Osoyoos BC peach would be nice.
the fruit stuff can be done here for breakfast.... but getting the right bread/toast and a decent juice or milk or coffee ................ well better luck next time...
stay tuned for lunch and dinner
Banitsa! Also called Burek (etc.) in other countries, usually on the Balkans..Its a filo dough pastry (?) with feta cheese. Accompanied by natural non-sweetened yogurt...the perfect Bulgarian breakfast mmmmm, can't wait till the summer. 
