What's the best food experience you've had in your travels?

If I had to pick one, it would be rendezvousing with 2 groups of friends in Bologna. We all had a bit of a harrowing journey to get there, but here we were. The first place we went to, directly after arrival, was a charcuterie restaurant that has very informal ordering prices. Through some language barrier we somehow ended up ordering a board that was 6 feet long, with many side plates.

It was basically a catering tray for a wedding of 20, for just the 6 of us. It was so massive that we ended up sharing with other people in the restaurant.

The wine was flowing, we were all so happy to see each other, the food was absolutely ridiculously good.

It is a core happy memory for me. I wish I could reach back and feel that way again. Pure joy is bottomless artisanal meats, bottles of wine, and talking shit to old friends you haven't seen in a while on the other side of the world.

I could have died right there.

I had a wonderful evening on one of my solo travels in Italy in a little trattoria. The owners were so friendly and really liked to pamper me with their best food and drinks. There was no minute where I felt uncomfortable, just me, really great and simple food and nice people around me. I will never forget that

Georgetown, Malaysia, 2001, rather ordinary looking indian restaurant. I hesitated a bit looking at the menu written on the wall and the waiter approches me. He says ”You sit down. You eat dosa”. It was love at first bite.

We stayed for a week in a little village called Carminigano outside of Florence.

There was a trattoria there that was heaven on earth. Menu changed every day with what ever was fresh at market or what they had on their farm.

I had a plate of cheese for dessert one day that included one that had been aged for 100 years.

I think Mexico and Italy have been my top 2 countries for food out of the ~35 countries I've visited. I keep going back to Mexico for the food. Recently had some amazing meals in Oaxaca.

I was camping on an island in the Florida Keys. We had spent the day fishing and snorkeling. We got back to camp and cooked mahi mahi in the coals of the fire with coconut rice. Ate it with our fingers as the sun went down.

A little restaurant on a cliff right outside of Amalfi with a husband and wife owner/chef duo. It had glass windows all around for a panoramic view of the cliffs and water. My fiancé and I were the only ones there most of the night, so it was essentially a private sunset dinner. Not sure why it was empty, because the food was good and the ingredients were super fresh farm to table from their garden and seafood caught locally that morning. They even called us a taxi home without having to even ask.

Not food but drinks. I hiked Les Calanques back in October, it was a day with no clouds in sight, close to 30 degrees Celsius, and I went all the way up, all the way down to swim and to cool off, then all the way up and all the way down again to leave, swam again but I was still somehow completely drenched in sweat.

We sat in a restaurant by the port in Cassis and I ordered a passionfruit Gin and Tonic. It was the most delicious thing I have ever drank in my life and I think about it often ahahah.

We were in Santorini and walking around Fira and decided to have lunch overlooking the caldera. We weren’t too familiar with Greek food so we asked the waiter/owner just to bring us some of his popular items. He kept bringing food till we could barely stand up and the bill was peanuts. Later in the day, we were walking by the same place and thought perhaps we’d go to the same place and watch the sunset. All the tables at the railing were reserved so we sat farther back. He came out and saw us, and took the sign off the best table and ushered us over there. We drank lots of wine and had some snacks and at the end of it all, he not only refused to let us pay, but as it was the end of the season and he was closing for the winter, he emptied his fridge of all the pop and gave it to us.

Georgia - no question about. Khinkali, mtsvadi, khachapuri and a ton of other food I already forgot names for…wine is great,too.

I'm vegan now, but I regularly think of the ham and cheese on buttered baguette sandwiches of my trips to France. Absolute perfection.

Caramelized onion focaccia from a street cart in Genoa. She warned it a panini press. It cost 2 euro and I had a religious experience.

I bought another immediately

Ok I’m going to these places: would LOVE your favorite restaurant in each! Barcelona Marseille Naples London

Spent a month backpacking solo around Ireland in October when I was 23, actually celebrated my 24th bday while I was there. Had one particularly rainy, chilly but wonderful day hiking around the west coast near Doolin, checking out the shore and looking for ring forts and towards the evening I went to a local pub for dinner. Had a bowl of seafood chowder and a basket of brown bread with good Irish butter, washed down with a couple pints of Guinness, while listening to a good seisun with local musicians. Pub had a fireplace burning turf. I can close my eyes and smell the fire and taste the soup. Absolutely glorious.

My first bratwurst in a cheap roll with german mustard when I landed in Munich.

My first doner kebab in Berlin.

Fondue in Zermatt.

Fresh noodles made by one of the Muslim noodle shops in China

Cheap curry in Japan

Fresh stroopwafel in Amsterdam

Sushi in Tokyo my first time over there. First solo international trip. First time doing an omakase service. Really damn good, totally set a new bar for me. And really satisfying having learned enough of the language to get by in some simple conversation with patrons and staff.

Cappadocia, Turkey. The most amazing artichoke chicken I have ever had. Second would be the burrata I had in Rome recently.

A safari camp in Botswana. Food driven in from three hours away on a super washboard gravel road in a safari 4x4 once per week. Lots of locally grown food - sorghum based stuff. Best part? Chef is a local village lady who trained a little bit with a professional chef.

I swear to you the food deserved a Michelan star. It was incredible. The sauces, the cook on everything absolutely perfect, beautiful food and plating too.

Was just recently in Vietnam, to visit my brother in law who was there for a month to teach English. He had met a person on the plane over a few years ago when he did this and kept in contact. That person also had to be in Vietnam at this time and invited us to visit the cathedral he was the architect on. My brother in law had the wrong direction but we finally got there nearly two hours late. They were holding a banquet for us and others, it was a Catholic seminary/monastery, it was unbelievable had several courses of traditional foods the whole thing was surreal. There was goat, chicken with the feet, prawns, pork belly, an interesting soup. And yes it was an actual cathedral being built, but out of cement, looked like something out of Europe 300 years ago.

1. Ko Lanta, Thailand. Kwan's Cookery. One of the best meals we have ever eaten. Still remember the amazing soft shell crab, grilled whole fish, and mango sticky rice.
2. Zakynthos, Greece. Grill House Alexis. Hidden gem. No menu, they bring you everything, and you only pay 10€ per person. And it's a massive amount of delicious food. Oh, and barbecue meats is thier specialty.

Dinner in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Restaurant called The Bicycle Thief. We were a walk in and sat at the crowded bar. Seafood and fall of the bone shirt ribs were delectable.

Freshly made churros on the plaza on Isla Mujeres; back when it was less impacted by tourism in the 90's.

• Chicago: Aji Omakase. Super intimate and fun. Every bite was delicious.

• Paris: We had booked a Michelin-star restaurant called Le Rigmarole. But between booking and our trip the chef/owner went out one paternity leave. The restaurant then became a pizza joint. We kept our reservation because we figured Michelin-level pizza had to be good. We sat at the bar and watched all the pizzas being made. My wife and I typically share two pizzas but these were so good we got a third.

• Brussels: Nuetnigenough. Classic Flemish dishes with a phenomenal beer list. I've found some well-aged beers here. Also the sandwiches from Tonton Garby, always worth the wait.

• Lisbon: Tin fish is huge in Portugal and we had a bit of it on our road trip but Sol E Pesca was our favorite. Such a cute spot. We sat outside and had multiple tins sipping on porto tonicos.

• Siena: A panino and beer in the central square from Il Bocconcino.

• Barcelona: The tapas and vermut at Morro Fi and the mascarpone croissants at Patisserie Hofmann are probably the two items I think of most of any trip.

Durian flavoured Turkish Icecream from a street vendor in KL in Malaysia. After arriving to my hotel, I went and walked back for another 30 minutes just to get another one. Who knows if I’ll ever get to try it again.

Penang, Malaysia: - Halab Restaurant…Lebanese food, the food and place blew our minds.

Cali, Colombia: - Platillos Voladoress…the best seafood risotto ever.

Surprisingly, Amsterdam - my husband and I spent a very long (good!) day in the museumplein, visiting Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh, MoCo, and Stedelijk museums. We were there from the Rijksmuseum opening in the morning until closing at Stedelijk, which was open late because it was a Friday. Starving, we decided to head to Foodhallen and get whatever looked good for dinner. I think we got food and drinks from five or six different stalls - a couple tacos and beer here, bitterballen, custard bao from the dumpling stand, more beer, an assortment of little desserts. It was super crowded and we just grabbed countertops wherever we could find them. By the end of it, we were kinda drunk and grossly full. Was the food the best we've ever had? No. But that experience, just the two of us darting around in the crowds drinking and eating whatever we felt like, getting tipsy after a long day of exploring museums, was sooooo so much fun.

Actually, looking back at our food/travel crossovers, a lot of my favorite food experiences don't necessarily highlight the best meals of my life.

Nasi lemak from a street vendor in Malaysia. Stopped by on a bus trip to singapore and it was so delicious for such little money (comparatively), I went back for seconds... And thirds

BALI. Coconut water basted Pork called Babi Guling

I’m old!!! So mine date back over 40 years so that makes these truly memorable.

First time I had proper Indian chai/masala tea brewed in a samovar in Mussorie in the foothills of the himilaya’s in 1988

Butter chicken and naan in the back streets of Mumbai (literally on the street - and that’s all they served) - 2000

In 2020 I finally got a bucket list item of a backwaters cruise in Kerala … just the two of us, and three staff including the most incredible chef. We were feed the most delicious Keralan food … fresh seafood and delicious curries … totally blown away.

Kokoda … raw fish similar to ceviche … in Fiji 1987

Banana roti pancakes on the streets of Phuket

Fresh baked brownie pie from the Pie Lady of Pie Town New Mexico … we were riding a Harley from Orlando to LA and stumbled across this wonderful place … she even gave me the recipe

Frito pie in Galveston … same trip

German potato soup on the border of Germany and Switzerland in a small hotel

Did a life changing trip to Greece. The food there is just incredible and world class in its own right. Mostly because of the freshness and simplicity. But one experience stands out.

We chartered a sail boat for our group, about 50/50 tourists and locals (a friend of ours splits time between Greece and NYC and it was a mix of both his friend groups), hit a few private beaches, a ship wreck, and a good local fishing spot. We had a band come out with us and they were playing just 3 string instruments and singing. We had basically as much local bear, wine, and ouzo as we could drink, and about gallon freezer bag of weed from a friend’s family’s farm. The captain was a chef too and was cooking anything and everything we caught basically the second we pulled it out of the water.

We anchored at a spot and one of the locals showed me how to free dive and pry the sea urchins off the rocks. We brought back a small bag of them to the chef, and went back down for round two. And then it happened…

I came back out of the water at the ladder, with a full bag in hand, my now wife and her friends partying in bikinis at the end of the ship, the band playing and singing, the ocean breeze and the salt from the Aegean wiping… and standing over me was the chef / captain with the shucked open sea urchin and a bottle of ouzo… he bent over and said “the first ones for you brother” and held up the bottle and nodded his head, I got a mouth full of ouzo, salt water, and fresh sea urchin, and it is to this day the greatest bite, the greatest moment of my life.

I think Mexico City.

Hué in Vietnam. Mind-blowing meal for the equivalent of 5 USD. Fresh, sophisticated, delicate. Vietnam, in general, was a culinary delight, but the meal we had in Hué (2 nights in a row), I still think about it.

Travelled all around mainland Greece (plus Corfu) and seemingly every meal was a 10.

I think my top would be a food tour we did in Chiang Mai (Thailand). I was on a trip with 9 other women. We had a local guide and we drove around in a songthaew to a number of stops. She told us at the beginning that we'd be having 26 courses so to pace ourselves. The food was fantastic. Pretty much every stop was a place for locals, not aimed at the tourist market. My favorite was a place that cooks pork belly inside large clay pots that used to be used for water storage but got repurposed when city water supply became widely available.

We did a similar tour in Bangkok which was equally fun and tasty - on this one we went by tuk tuks and it was more a hybrid food/ see the sites at night tour whereas the Chiang Mai one really was all about the food.

Sounds so silly, but I loved the food in Ireland. I don't mean one dish either. The quality of the food overall was amazing. It is sooo much fresher than where I'm from. I live in a food desert. The beef stew, produce, bread, butter, cheese, ice cream, beer...all of it was delicious 💁🏻‍♀️🇮🇪🍽😋

We took a family trip to Florence. While in Florence we ate in a small Cafe around near the Church where the Medici are buried. Anyways. my hubby and shared a bottle of wine and a simple flank steak arugula salad with shaved parm reggiano olive oil and lemon. It was perfect.

Recently, beach snacking at Ipanema in Rio.

Uruguay sandwiches, grilled meats and cheese, cold beer, etc. all brought right to your chair.

Budget - Bun Cha in Hanoi, Vietnam. Charred chicken, veggies, salty spicy fish sauce, with vermicelli on the street.

High end - l'atelier by Joel Robuchon. A michelin star masterpiece, that was the most amazingly tasty, beautifuly presented plates, we've ever tasted.

Fun - Black ink orzo cuttlefish, on a cliffside in croatia. Something brand new to me, and yet so tasty with an unforgetable sunset view. Really just a wonderful time and amazing food.

I just had roasted sardines on the beach in Portugal the other day, with sangria and good friends in the middle of a fantastic trip.

Ramen after 3 weeks hitch hiking across Japan. I ended up getting in earlier to Tokyo than I had planned by a day, and arrived to no accommodation anywhere. I stored my bags in a train station locker, showered at a public onsen, partied all night to celebrate, went home with an English girl. Slept for a few hours in her university accommodation and stumbled back into Tokyo to collect my bag, walked the streets for a while and then checked into my pod hotel. 

Walked across the road and found the best ramen I've ever had. That moment stills sp vividly in my mind to this day.

I'd lived off 7/11 sushi, rice balls and white bread with that tasty Japanese Mayo spread on top. 

So it all made that ramen taste 100 percent better.....Never had anything close to how good it was again. 

My husband and I call it boat soup... It was a seafood noodle soup we bought of a floating market boat/food stall south of Bangkok. No idea what was in it. A decade later, I can't even recall the specific ingredients... Just how delicious it was.

Japan. Literally any cuisine is great. Best Indian and Italian meals I’ve ever had

This tomato sauce seafood linguine in Crete, Greece. Divine

Hands down Penang in Malaysia. Malaysian food in general is bomb but Penang takes it to the next level.

Cooking school in Thailand.  Incredible ingredients, great technique instructions, delicious results.  It all took place in a stunningly beautiful outdoor venue.  We made 6 dishes which we then ate over the course of 3 hours all for about $25.

North Coast of California, abalone diving and was camping with a large group. They built an absolute *feast*. Someone brought an outdoor kitchen setup and prepared squid eyes to initiate the newbies, but made them so well, that even the fear factor garlic butter squid eyes were amazing. Spent the evening pounding the abs (abalone is quite tough), which were then tempura fried. Another diver with us had shot a six foot ling cod and made nuggets out of it. Another member had brought ribs to cook over the fire. Even the two kids someone brought along with them spent their day picking mussels off the rocks, and cooked them up too.

It was an absolute feast, and some of the best food I've ever had.

Japan, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam are hard to beat. Good food available literally everywhere you go.

I love Mexican food too. Best cities I’ve had it in are Tijuana and San Diego

Duck rice from a street shop in Penang, seafood platter in Brisbane, an amazing breakfast (egg, bacon, mushroom) muffin in Rotorua. Tasting platter and wine in an alley in Bologna (also best gelato ever)

The Peposo I had in Tuscany was amazing. Had to find a recipe and start making it at home.

Real pizza at a pizzeria just outside our campground near Pompeii. Simple Margherita, drizzled with olive oil, flash cooked in a wood fired oven and devoured on the spot lol. Over 40 years ago and I’ve never had another pizza come close

Ate at a small restaurant off the Spanish steps in Rome. There was an accordion player busking nearby, the food was great. We saw person after person passing with little boxes of something and plastic spoons. It became a steady stream. After dinner, we followed the stream to a little store that specialized in tiramisu to go in little boxes, all different flavors. We joined the parade and were in heaven.

Probably Florence. Ate at some excellent restaurants and Trattorias whilst there.

Baking a blueberry pie with fresh wild blueberries in the Boundary Waters, drinking a shot of snake’s blood alcohol in Beijing, eating gnocchi in Italy, Korean fried chicken in Seoul, Korean BBQ in Seoul, fresh seafood in Cortez, FL to name a few.

I am Asian growing up eating rice - the proper Asian way.

Moved to London and hated risotto. Does not help that i was a poor student eating at the college canteen.

Years later, went to san Sebastian. Went to the one star restaurant that serves a 5 course lunch for €40.

One of the courses was a large table spoon of black ink risotto. This stuff was so so good that i licked the entire spoon shamelessly. The next day, i went back and ordered a large plate of that black gold.

Black ink risotto is now one of my favourite dish.

Currywurst with fresh cut fries in Dusseldorf from a street vendor

Hot stroopwafel in Utrecht from a street vendor

Chicken tikka masala with fresh cilantro probably plucked from the garden minutes earlier at an Indian place in Nice.

Full Welsh breakfast in Machynlleth made by the owner of the B&B - lord that bacon was good.

The slab of bread that came with a dish of goulash in Budapest. The goulash was fine, but the bread was so good I paid for another slice.

The only place I’ve travel to for food is the grocery store. 🥲

But I’ll be going to the Philippines soon, I’ll just read through the comments to prepare myself for travelling 😃

My first trip to Paris when I was in college. Got a cheap bottle of wine, some cheese, meats and pate and we picnic'd near Eiffel tower . Can't beat charcuterie/cheese assortments. Fish and Chips in London. Pastries in Paris. a fresh baguette in Paris. all great.

Black pork in Evora, Portugal with a glass of vino verde

Fresh grilled dumba lamb kabobs in Uzbekistan with a fresh loaf of the best bread in the world

A fairly cheap Michelin restaurant 400 m from our AirBnB in Lisboa, Portugal. The best Port ever with the desert.

One of the reasons why it was the best is probably because it was so unexpected. Besides, it was after a cold, rainy day at the beginning of December.

In Athens, Greece, I was absolutely exhausted and famished after hiking up and down the Acropolis in the June sun. I did a quick Google maps search and found a local restaurant with high ratings. I asked for a lot of water right when I sat down, and they brought me a glorious pitcher of ice water. I then proceeded to have the best Greek salad and lamb kabob of my entire life. The salad was incredible in it's simplicity and flavor. It was just super fresh tomatoes, a block of fresh Feta, Capers and olive oil. Absolutely divine. And the lamb kabob was complex with spices and not too heavy. I still consider that day exploring Athens to be the best day of my life, seven years later. The restaurant is called O Thanasis, and still appears to be going strong! 

I was in southern Taiwan solo, getting noodles at a little hole in the wall restaurant. Someone came up to me and said “You can’t eat by yourself!” and invited me to sit and share dinner with them and their party. They were surfers, and were so excited to meet a surfer from California. The food was amazing, but the hospitality I experienced in Taiwan was something else. Culturally the two are very intertwined.

Mt first taste of Malaysian laksa in KL. I would kill for that specific bowl of soup.

Experience? Maybe a cooking class in Laos where we got ingredients at a local market and made spring rolls, stuffed lemongrass, coconut curry chicken, and mango sticky rice. Just a lovely experience from start to finish.

Best food? Definitely Mexico; from octopus tacos to mushroom quesadillas to lamb ravioli and tuna cannelloni tapas.

Honorable mention: not really on vacation but I taught English at a school in China and sometimes the school would wine and dine us with some incredibly lavish banquet dinners put on by either students’ families or local associations. Food was always top notch.

Paella at the Corte Ingles in Barcelona. Best ever!

I’ve got a few:

• garlic butter crab in Patagonia

• date and tomato soup in Marrakech

• spice date loaf with caramel sauce on Kangaroo Island

• crawfish boil in New Orleans

• jerk chicken on Little Cayman

A freaking salad! It was in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, this tiny village in France where they filmed the movie Chocolat. It was a green salad with various cheeses that were from that region. I ate the whole meal without saying a word to my travel companion. I was speechless. The flavors were absolutely perfect. Finished the meal with a coffee and a tiny chocolate.

Random Hawker Centres in Singapore. Just amazing. Want Malay? Fine. Want Chinese, sure. Want Indian?-yup we got it. Want it all together? Sure. I still even think about an egg curry dish I had in Little India. I’ve been dying to try to recreate it.

Also Cambodia! I went decades ago to Siem Reap. so can’t remember the name or location but wow I still remember the food I had in this one restaurant.

Argentinian Beef.

A restaurant called Ristorante Parentesi in Milan. I had dinner there with a couple of friends once and it was so good I took my mom and sister there the next month. From the USA.

Mahi mahi, caught fresh from the sailboat we were on near Cabo san Lucas. Marinated with tequila over its gills (fish was stunned but soon feeling no pain) & then grilled on deck.

Not how I’d have handled the fish but it was delicious.

Ceviche in Peru.

Maribor, Slovenia.

We had some food from the Balkans. So good. We also had some Arab pistachio pastry. I miss it sometimes 😭

Italy eating fresh produce from the little produce stands. I still fantasize about those apricots and grapes.

Portland where I got a vegan multi course meal made all from foods within 75 miles from Portland. It was to this day maybe the best meal of my life, you could feel love in every bite.

Those funky little ice cream desserts in Japan with all the round things in them.

Picking fresh figs off a vine in France while I wandered around.

Just a couple days ago, Le Violon D’Ingres in Paris. Absolutely perfect food. Everything was cooked incredibly, the flavors they put together were perfect, I even liked 2 foods that I usually hate (fennel and red bell pepper). The service was excellent. It was probably the best meal I’ve ever had

Paris: tomato & mozzarella sandwich on newly baked bread, from the cafe at the top of the Eiffel tower. It was drizzling a cold rain in March and the sandwich ingredients were so fresh & perfect. Sounds ridiculously touristy but it was simple, delicious, and very memorable.

Barcelona: a traditional seafood paella in a family-owned restaurant somewhere around Santa Maria del Mar. It was perfect.

USA: a horchata popsicle in old town Scottsdale, AZ. I don’t ever crave ice cream but still think about that popsicle.

I had spent the morning at Macba, Universitat, and Paralel skateboarding in Barcelona with some friends and we made our way down towards the beach and saw a small place down an alley. We went inside and it was standing room only and they sold rose cava and bocadillos. The cava was amazing and the bocadillos were perfect standing food and it was just such a warm place and experience. Perfect little watering hole.

Xampanyeria/Can Paixano if you are looking for it.

Had a similar experience with wine and paninis at I Fratellini in Florence.

Had an amazing meal in Buenos Aires at this place called Fogon Asado. So so good.

Did a cooking class in a remote village in Cambodia and the meal was just amazing.

I had some samosas, grilled prawns, and fish curry that was definitely not the tastiest thing I’ve ever had. But after seven hours trekking through the mountains of Tamil Nadu, it was most decidedly the best meal I’ve ever had. It was also super tasty, just to be clear.

Mater Terre rooftop restaurant in Rome. We ate there in 2019 and was back in Rome in April 2024 and ate there again, and it actually was better second time. Amazing food, great service, beautiful views. 10/10 best meal we ever had!

Kumpir potatoes in Istanbul

belize has some seriously underrated food. we got tamales that i still crave from time to time after half a decade. also the ceviche there was soooo good!!!

I've eaten at some fancy places but I ate at some gyro/schawarma hole in the wall sandwich place in Paris next to a metro station. I came back and ate there two more times during my stay. 20 years ago. I still think about it.

• Finding random restaurants and cafes in the quieter areas or Florence, Italy.

• 1st time going to Japan ~10yrs ago and discovering Family Mart, Lawson, & 7/11 food for the 1st time.

• Sunset picnic w/ my friends in USVI NPS. We only had less than 2hrs at the park before the last ferry departed and the trip to get there from the main island was not fun.

Oh boy! I had the same experience in the same place, hiking the John Muir trail. This was so long ago that we didn't even have a stove -- cooked with wood. We had three days of rain and couldn't build a fire, hiked hard and ate cold. Finally things dried out enough for a fire. We boiled water and made a package of dried pea soup. Best dish I ever ate. I still love pea soup.

On the west coast of Vancouver Island, in Ucluelet, is the best fried chicken (served with French toast) that my son and I have ever had… https://heartwoodfood.com/breakfast%2Fbrunch

Seafood that literally just came out of the ocean in Vietnam. With that amazing pineapple that tastes so much sweeter than the pineapple I can get in the us for dessert.

Raclette in the French Alps on the border of Switzerland.

And this will sound random, but like 20 yrs ago I had a salad in a National Park restaurant somewhere in California that I still think about. The lettuce was so fresh, and the viniagrette was perfect or something.

Oh, and char dogs at Wiener's Circle in Chicago at 2am.

Abroad: Vietnam. Hands down.

US: There's a tiny little restaurant in a town called Frederick, in the state of Maryland, called Tsunami. The croissant pudding is literally like an orgasm inside your mouth.

Having authentic Jager schnitzel in Mainz, Germany

I was hiking in Tayrona National Park, Colombia and I was on hour 4 (out of 6) of my hike. It was disgustingly hot out and we ended up walking by a small food shack. I had the best frozen lemonade of my life. No lemonade will ever compare to that one. I think about it often

You asked for experience and for me that's hands down the Sounds of Silence dinner offered in Yulara, NT, Australia. The food was great and all but the experience was unforgettable. Watching the sun set and milky way appear in some of the darkest skies anywhere next to the beauty of Uluru.

Was in Nice, France and had some of the best fried chicken from a small shop staffed by middle eastern people

Had the famous steak in Florence, Italy. Oh and dined the epinonymous beef in Kobe too.

Chestnut soup in Munich at a traditional German restaurant

Sushi at the fish market in Tokyo. Melt in your mouth

Caesar salad with Salmon in Saudi Arabia of all places

Cotton Candy Foix Gras at Bazaar in Las Vegas

The most tender Beef Shoulder in Salzburg Austria

I love that you mentioned the street tacos in Monterrey! Best tacos I’ve had anywhere ever!

The hotel I stayed in outside of Athens had the most incredible breakfast buffet and I dream about it. They even had whole honeycomb on a rack that you could cut a hunk off of to put on the best yogurt I’ve ever tasted.

Also Curaté in Asheville, NC.

Kontrast in Oslo stands out to me. We went there for our honeymoon

I traveled around East Africa for 4 months back in 2012, and most of the food I had there was extremely bland and uninteresting. The last country I visited on my trip was Ethiopia where the food was the complete opposite and absolutely amazing after I had mostly been eating rice, beans, corn meal, and overcooked/underseasoned chicken/goat for the last 3.5 months.

My husband got a recommendation from a fellow Western traveler in Osaka, who got his recommendation from a salary man for a quiet sushi place. I never understood the sex to food comparison until I ate this sushi. It was so divine, I didn’t want to talk to anyone after dinner. Just walk and digest in silence.