The World According to Nils » Food

Pralines

Nils — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:39:40 +0000

Pralines

These were a gift… and really good, too.

Milk Prices

Nils — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:19:34 +0000

The milk I like is now at â‚¬1.09 for full milk and â‚¬0.99 per liter for low fat milk. The cheapest milk my local supermarket carries is now at â‚¬0.66. That’s DM1.29. I am pretty sure that milk cost no more than 0.99 DM when I moved to Frankfurt six years ago. And at any rate, the prices were â‚¬0.89 for my favorite milk and â‚¬0.46 for the cheap milk about three or four months ago. Talk about a price hike.

Qingdao International Beer Festival

Nils — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:13:30 +0000

The day after I arrived in Qingdao, my hosts decided to do me some good and brought me to the Qingdao International Beer Festival.

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The Beer Festival was a marketing gimmick invented by the Tsingtao brewery. Tsingtao beer, if you’ve never heard about it, traces its origins back to the time Qingdao was a German colony. The Germans built a brewery, which continued to operate, and it seems that Tsingtao Beer is the closest China has to a national beer. Despite the name, the Beer Festival isn’t really all that International. They’re using a Bavarian theme for part of it, and selling German beer, and on the first day – I am told – Musicians from Bavaria play some music (for which they get paid very well).

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Despite the apparent popularity of the event, I can’t really say too much good about it. It’s horribly loud – very loud – the Bavarian theme is so superficial and fake that it is hard to even call it “a mockery of the real Bavaria”, there are some rusty rides, and, well, lots of beer. (I am guessing the later is why it’s popular at all.) I wonder if Chinese people would feel the same about China-themed events in Europe.

Much to my annoyance, the festival also featured a constant flow of salespeople: Every five minutes or so, some musician would come and offer to play music for money at our table. This, by the way, happened as the stage music was so loud I could hardly talk to my hosts.

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Overall I definitely hated the event, and I can only recommend that you stay as far away as possible from it. Don’t waste your time and/or money.

Asian Ice Cream Fantasies

Nils — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:10:19 +0000

What I didn’t expect when I was asked whether I’d like an ice cream:

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A picture is worth more than a thousand words. Yes, that’s corn.

Fresh Young Coconut

Nils — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:50:04 +0000

127If you order a drink called a “Fresh Young Coconut” in a Japanese style restaurant, know what you are getting yourself into.

Of course, being the naive geek I am, I figured it was just a name, and it’d be some coconut-based drink. Well, I was quite wrong.

The stuff takes some getting used to. The coconut milk is… strange, and the “meat” is difficult to extract. I am thinking I prefer adult coconuts.

I am so full

Nils — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 05:03:51 +0000

My tummy is hurting. For good reason.

At Secret Recipe:

* Orange Yoghurt Shake
* “Mexican Kebab”

At the KL Tower:

* Ice Cream
* Water

At “The Ship”:

* Chicken Maryland (with a deep-fried banana)
* Melonjuice
* Milkshake
* More water

At the hotel:

* Black Currant Juice
* “100 Plus” “isotonic” drink