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Alphabetic town and related food game

And P is for ..
Phu Quoc in Vietnam (actually the name for the island, but hey)
Quiet (when I visited, that may have changed), stunning beaches, seafood etc
You got to choose your fish from an enormous basin and they would prepare it for you.
There were plenty places growing pepper and you can taste the difference with the stuff that's more commonly available. This is the peppercorns, not the chili peppers
And fish sauce. They have the most amazing fish sauce. Smooth like you can't believe. Never found that quality again.
 
P for Prince Edwards Island.
I remember my family was digging for mussels at the beach, very fun experience, except we stayed at a hotel so no cooking.
This was back in 1984 time frame. I tried to go back, to show my husband this fun place, but last I looked hotels are not cheap, so I abandoned this plan.
 
P for Europe is Paris

Paris - I’ve been here multiple times, my first experience was in 1980s, I remember the 9-course meal at one New Year’s Eve.
But the amazing food at Paris was always the breakfast. Even when I stayed at 1-star hotel.
When my kids were younger, we ate mostly at tourist places, I don’t think the food were good.
Only lately, did I discovered more good, affordable, and tasty food, really thanks to the internet.
 
P for USA
P is for Portland, both Oregon and Maine, they both have access to local seafood so the food quality is always excellent.

P is for Plymouth - this place has typical New England fares, typical lobster rolls and fries, but one thing I remember about this town, this is the beach that I frequented when I was living in New England, I obviously didn’t watch the movie Jaws.
 
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SoCalZone10 said:
P for Europe is Paris

Paris - I’ve been here multiple times, my first experience was in 1980s, I remember the 9-course meal at one New Year’s Eve.
But the amazing food at Paris was always the breakfast. Even when I stayed at 1-star hotel.
When my kids were younger, we ate mostly at tourist places, I don’t think the food were good.
Only lately, did I discovered more good, affordable, and tasty food, really thanks to the internet.
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I was wondering who would be the first one to mention Paris France.
I didn't find breakfast exciting. Big bowl (yes bowl) of milky coffee or chocolat and maybe a croissant...
But the wine, baquettes and other bread, paté, lunches & dinner....
Loved those, but hit and miss
 
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Paris - been there 3 times, but many, many years ago and can't remember what I ate.
Prague - spent 3 weeks there with a very beautiful Czech lady, so don't remember much, except knedliky (dumplings) and an 8 course dinner we had in the castle on the 31st December. Carp (typical of Czech culture around Xmas) and lentils with mustard.
Puerto Ordaz (Venezuela) - where the Orinoco and Caroni rivers meet. I was there last year, setting up an Indian menu for a restaurant, but mostly ate Lebanese food (from the restaurant) and Chinese (from the restaurant next door)
Puerto Rico (not really a town, but still) - way back in 1997, at a 3 day conference with Phillip Morris and the entire HR teams from the US and Latin America. We probably ate hotel food most of the time, but there's an interesting anecdote. During the conference, we had a speaker called Nicholas Negroponte, an IT specialist. The world of internet had suddenly exploded and everyone was thinking digital, digital, digital. His first question was:
"Who knows what Amazon.com is? "
My hand shot up because I'd used it. Astoundingly, my hand was the only one out of 150 delegates. He gave me a signed copy of his book : Being Digital.
 
badjak said:
I was wondering who would be the first one to mention Paris France.
I didn't find breakfast exciting. Big bowl (yes bowl) of milky coffee or chocolat and maybe a croissant...
But the wine, baquettes and other bread, paté, lunches & dinner....
Loved those, but hit and miss
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That’s not my experience. It sounds like you had an Italian breakfast.
They served a full load of breakfast even for 3 days at £22 pound. I got the hotel off some UK website. It’s near Paris, La Defense area.
What i had was all sort of jams, nuts, bread, dry fruit, homemade yogurt. I think they had a machine to boil eggs to your liking, an orange juice maker for fresh orange juice Totally healthy and delicious.

Not only that my daughters got to watch Scooby Doo in French, a total French immersion in itself.

My husband and I had cherries, cheese, and wine for dinner.
The location was probably terrible, next to a railway, we were there when they won the World Cup, and the celebration atmosphere was a lot of noise. But totally wonderful experience.
 
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That’s not my experience. It sounds like you had an Italian breakfast.
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You had a hotel breakfast....
Standard French is not that fancy. It's like not every Brit eats a full English breakfast every day, but every hotel serves it :)
The French Breakfast: What do they really eat in France?

karadekoolaid
I forgot about Prague.
I went there not long after the fall of the wall. What a beautiful town.
We mainly ate in little wine cellars. Good wine, good food, small portions. I recall ordering 2 main courses.
And good street food as well. I had to google to find the name again "Bramborak'
 
badjak said:
You had a hotel breakfast....
Standard French is not that fancy. It's like not every Brit eats a full English breakfast every day, but every hotel serves it :)
The French Breakfast: What do they really eat in France?

karadekoolaid
I forgot about Prague.
I went there not long after the fall of the wall. What a beautiful town.
We mainly ate in little wine cellars. Good wine, good food, small portions. I recall ordering 2 main courses.
And good street food as well. I had to google to find the name again "Bramborak'
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I did say I stayed at a hotel. In fact, when I travel I always stay at a hotel.
 
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P is for Paris, where the first time we went (on a weekend coach trip from the UK with other USAF folks), we paired up with another couple for some pasta carbonara, and the young woman with us got into a screaming argument with the waiter over finding a hair in her food…a very long, twisty, coarse, black hair…just like all the long, twisty, coarse, black hairs on her head… :whistling:
 
Q is for Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppy. Its not far from where I live.
I ate a nice chunky ham sandwich with mustard plus a pint of bitter in the Old House at Home, a lovely pub overlooking the harbour.

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