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Calcutta, India
- Spicy curries!
- Lassie - blended yogurt drink flavored with crushed raisins and cardamom (?)
- Kati roll - paratha (bread) stuffed with paneer, fried and then stuffed with finely chopped onion, green pepper, and smothered in mustard curry sauce ...delicious!
- Nescafe...when will we have good coffee?
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Sikkim, India
- Darjeeling Tea - four or five leaves are brewed until light golden color, served with three scoops of sugar and hot milk. It has no taste.
- Nescafe...
- Not spicy curries
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Tibet
- Momos - steamed (or better, fried) round dumplings, filled with veggies, chicken or Yak meat.
- Yak butter tea - served at monastery kitchens, very salty
- Tsampa - barley flour, sugar, yak butter and water, served in a leather bag. Knead with your fingers into small balls.
- Nescafe
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Chengdu, China
- Mafu Doufu - soft (almost liquid) tofu in hot oil with green onion and salted, roasted soybeans
- Street food: roasted corn on the cob, grilled tofu or chicken
- Chengdu specialty: steamed dumplings, filled with pork
- Bone-splintered chicken - butchers chop the whole chicken into neat squares, regardless of bone structure, making it impossible to eat...
- Nescafe Gold
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Lombok, Indonesia
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Ikan sate - fresh fish, skewered and grilled with peanut and lombok (chili) sauce
- Steamed spinach and sprouts with hot sambal (lombok sauce)
- Fruit salad - chunks of fresh fruit with fresh grated coconut, fresh ground peanuts, lemon and honey
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Yogyakarta, Java Indonesia
- Blended avocado "juice" mixed with chocolate syrup - it's good!
- Sweet clear gelatin with chunks of aloe -- strange but good
- Nescafe - where's the Java?
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Bali, Indonesia
- Fresh ginger pieces and limes, blended with ice
- Ginger tea, made with huge amount of fresh ginger
- Thinly sliced tempe fried with lombok chili's
- Matchstick-thin bread sticks
- Banana-filled crepes, served with grated fresh coconut
- Chai-spiced coffee
- Fresh watermelon, lime or pineapple juice
- Jaffle - cheese, onion and tomato sandwich toasted in a "jaffle iron"
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Australia
- Damper - biscuits cooked on the coals of a camp fire
- Tucker - dinner (we had whole saratoga fish) grilled on the coals
- Fran's pasties - pies filled with veggies, camel or kangaroo meat, spiced with a lot fresh cracked pepper, ginger, and turmeric
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New Zealand
- Flat White - aka cappuccino (order many if jet-lagged)
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