What’s Your Unforgettable Travel Food Memory?

Had an amazing lunch in Pananji, Goa. Paneer cooked in some sort of spicy green sauce. Waiter tried to put me off, warning me that it was hot, but it wa out of this world, just mopped up the sauce with chappattis. Can't remember what it was called though and certainly never seen it served in a resturant in Britain.

This past December I was in Japan for a business trip and as I had jetlag as was up really early, in the morning I would head to the Tsukiji Fish Market for sushi. It was the best sushi in my life. One morning I went to a really small place in the market with really fresh sushi and everything the chef gave me was yummy. But he kept getting me to try whale sperm and I kept passing. Eventually, as everything he has suggested was SO good I relented and said, "why not?!" Well, I didn't like it! But at least now I can say "been there done that!"

My husband & I had some great champagne when visiting my sister-in-law in Paris, as well as some great food, but the food I most remember was when we went to Las Vegas for my sister-in-law's birthday. We ate at some of the best restaurants there & hit some of the best buffets for breakfast & brunch. I also remember Kona Brewery in Hawaii had some great food & brew, too.

I have two experiences from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - the first was some concoction that involved octopus and some sort of salsa, and the second at a restaurant called the Blue Shrimp where they served me shrimp in an absolutely delicious tequila sauce. I've been trying to reproduce the sauce at home ever since. It's been 9 years with no success!

Bohemian Latina- I LOVED the food in Puerto Vallarta!

Back when I was 16 (5 years ago), my dad took us to Costa Rica for the 4th time, but this time was going to be different. My mother was tired of cooking, and we were going with another close family friend of ours and decided to splurge. We hired a local cook! SHE ROCKED! Every morning we'd wake up to frying eggs, plantains, toast with butter and all kind of fresh local jams, fresh sqeeuzed orange juice, and fresh fruit with lime juice squeezed all over them. Then for lunch she'd make a pizza, or some kind of sandwich/wrap and the BEST beans and rice I've ever had in my life. For dinner she'd usually make some kind of stew, and then grill fruit for dessert and make coctails and coffee. And to think her family probably eats like this every day! It was definitely something I'll never, ever forget.

Hmmmm, my most memorable meal? There was guinea pig in Peru, sand-laced njera ba wat in Ethiopia, fried bat in Egypt, and green goat stew in Kenya. But the best meal I've ever had was at my brother's house in Alaska when my sister-in-law cooked up a seafood feast for my brithday. We had crab-stuffed shrimp, dugeness crab, and a fabulous baked halibut dish with a fish we caught ourselves. We topped it off with an almond torte. Second best: raw Ethiopian carrots when we got tired of the sandy injera. Carrots from Ethiopia are the best in the world, so sweet and crunchy they could be a candy. You'd think taping a video on the famine of 1985 would kill your appetite, but those carrots were so good.

My heart belongs to some fish and crab tacos I ate at a small restaurant in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. They were the best tacos I've ever eaten.

I was in Toronto with my brother and a friend. We were looking for lunch. A man came up to us and asked if we were hungry, then led us to a restaurant. It was a tiny place, it looked like it had been a house in a previous life, decorated with all kinds of flowers and lace. They had the BEST Italian food I'd ever had! That food, that restaurant, and that ambience were just what we needed right then. Even though my visit to that place was almost ten years ago, it's still one of my 'happy places'.

I was an exchange student in Costa Rica ages ago, but I still remember this delicious fruit - Cas, which is similar to a guava but more juicy and acidic. You can buy Cas fruit juice in the market, but I used to beg my host mom to squeeze fresh Cas juice. So yummy and refreshing!

One time I was traveling in France and I was on a train. I was in college and had a U-Rail pass. I went to the dining car and got a "croque monsieur." This is French for "ham and cheese sandwich." It was delicious. The cheese in France is unvelievable. Not plastic like American cheese. It was the real deal.