What is the best food you've had while travelling?

Freshly caught tuna with Greek Salad and crusty bread during a Flotilla Sailing Holiday. 1981, only time ever so far from home.

Chicken piri piri in crusty rolls. This was at a beach cafe in Portugal. We've tried to make it ever since.

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Proper Cornish pasties outside the Lost Gardens of Heligan
Fish and chips in Whitby
Crab sandwiches in Devon
A bean stew flavoured with lots of herbs in Greece

Sautéed mushrooms in a beautiful restaurant called de sinjoor
In Breda Holland.

Oh I would love to go and have them again they were wonderful.

Always fresh crab sandwiches or fish and chips at the seaside here at home. Followed by a lemon top ice cream if I'm Redcar way.

But the daal we had at a hotel in Sri Lanka ran them a close second. It was so good I was even eating it at breakfast.

Many years ago we went to Kashmir and stayed on one of those lovely wooden houseboats on one of the quieter lakes outside Srinagar. We had a very pleasant house boy who made our meals over an open stove in a lean-to next to the owners house - naan, local honey and chilli omelette for breakfast, lovely curried lunches and dinners. If we were out for lunch they made us beautiful picnics with homemade bread of various kinds with lots of different fillings.
We were there for Christmas Day and they made us a sponge pudding with jam with a rather unusual custard which they called English pudding - it wasn't very spongy but was actually quite nice. We reciprocated with a little Christmas pudding which we had brought with us.
Its sad to think that tourism has all but died in this area now so all of those who were employed in it have probably had to move elsewhere.

Chips in New Zealand. They were the most delicious chips ever and reminded me of ones we used to buy when I was a child.

You would never get to the end of my list!

Two that really stand out, thin beef slices, rolled round bacon, pot-roasted and served with cherry sauce in Poland.

Fried streaky pork with "pinderkaase" (peanut butter sauce) in Amsterdam.

The first fish and chips I have when on a visit to England

Pastizzi tal Pizelli in Valetta
Scallops in garlic butter in Eindhoven
Take away fish & chips in Hull

Fish and chips from a shack near the pier in South Shields,eaten out of newspaper while sitting on the beach. It was over 60 years ago and I still remember how delicious they were.

In the Costa Brava with my mum in the sixties, long before there were many tourists, sitting on the beach watching fisherman eating a huge pile of sea urchins. My mother was always very food curious, and when they asked us to join them we didn’t hesitate. They were just cut in half and the orange paste scraped out with fresh crusty bread. Unbelievably delicious.

Some years later, fruit bat pate in the Seychelles, probably not on the menu now! Also delicious.

Portugal (evening walks with the children) - grilled sardines and crusty bread - 1980's.
Cornish pasties - brought down to Kynance Cove in the baker's van (early 1980s).
Crab sandwiches at the tea room above Bedruthan Steps. They put brown meat in as well as white. On locally made granary bread.
December 2018: Seafood pizza with samphire - street vendor on Lemon Quay, Truro (Christmas market). I sat on bench people watching. Hope the vendor's there this year.

For me it's got to be the deep fried flying fish slapped between two slices of freshly baked bread in Barbados. Absolutely lush, so tasty, best fish ever!

A journey by plane from Amsterdam to Newcastle came to mind. It was the last leg of a three plane journey from Florida. Owing to a mix up I ended up in first class as there were no seats left, and had an absolutely super posh breakfast.

Massamam duck curry in Thailand.

Crepes Suzette with 'marmalade' outside a restaurant high up on a mountain in France.

A very spicy prawn curry in a Middle Eastern restaurant in Johannesburg ?

Favourite is probably pork souvlaki in Cyprus, cooked on the charcoal, in pitta bread with salad inside - always plenty of parsley in the salad.
Now and then I make an almost-as-good version at home.

Fried kalamari in Greece, ditto grilled saganaki cheese - both simple taverna food - are favourites when I’m there.

Fish and chips at Capels in Exmouth, also on the harbour at Plymouth.

Buttery grilled sea bass at St Cast le Guildo, northern France.

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What is in a pasta pie?

An Italian motorway service station while escaping from a disastrous holiday cottage. Melon with Parma ham, followed by risotto Milanese. All totally fresh and presented with pride by the chef. Not a bit like a UK service station.

Mmm fish and chips in Seahouses, Whitby and Folkestone. The best ever jacket potatoes at a steak house in Queenstown, New Zealand, so soft and fluffy inside.

A wonderful little family run taverna in Pefkos on Rhodes.
All homemade food & such lovely people. We can sit there all evening watching people go by as we eat great food, drink wonderful wine & chat to the owners. We swop Christmas cards.
Unfortunately we could not go last year & this year will be out too but hopefully next year.