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

Breakfast in a proper diner on Long Island - eggs over easy, bacon, home fries

Waffles with crisply fried bacon and maple syrup at a taverna on the quay at 6am in Skiathos, having just arrived off a ferry, with hours to wait for a plane home (boohoo). Ought to be able to replicate it at hone, have tried but never tastes the same

At a hostel at the top of the Samaria Gorge on Crete in the 1980s, a ?goat stew followed by Greek yogurt and local honey, then the next day, after walking down the gorge, a lovely authentic mousaka at a taverna on the beach.

The best street food we have had was in Vietnam especially Hanoi. The food in Vietnam is so healthy loads of fresh vegetables and herbs. But a memorable meal was at the harbour in Portimao in Portugal, all you can eat sardines salad and bread plus jugs of delicious wine.

A warm chicken roll from a little Milk Bar in Euroa, Victoria. Never had one since like it.
Warm churros on Santa Monica pier

Love Bettys in Goa, if I remember we went on a boat trip organised by Bettys the food they cooked was amazing!

Too many to mention them all but really memorable was at Haven restaurant in Siem Reap run by a Swiss couple who trained those young people leaving care to work in hospitality.The food was heavenly!
The Curry House in Candolin Goa, best chicken korma ever but other half could not finish his vindaloo ??
Street food in Negumbo Sri Lanka on a back street from a trolley all made by the seller’s mum.
Fresh sardines and chilled red wine from a beach bar in Malaga.
Finally a hot pork sandwich and chips with Vinho Verde at a local cafe in Porto served by a dishy waiter.

As we’re wary of street food, I’ll add ribolitta in a restaurant in Florence. Quite often it was sold out.

Incredible steak in a Detroit steak house. They where on display in freezers with shelves and you chose the one you wanted.
The best salmon sandwich ever in Canada.

Red salmon and chips in Canada

I should also mention a little restaurant halfway up a mountain in Italy. It was empty when we turned up so they took us into their own kitchen and cooked us pork chops over the open fire.

I am a very fussy eater but I have had some lovely meals in turkey. I had just started to eat garlic bread through going abroad, the last time we were there we went to a restaurant which we had been to previous years and we were served garlic bread at the start of our meal, it was a small round shape and was very soft, it was the nicest bread I have ever had. Depending on which restaurant you went to you got served different breads. Another type was similar to naan bread which was also good

Pad kra pao , minced pork with Thai basil from a street vendor in Thailand

A Turkish village breakfast, eaten in a little restaurant which had a stream flowing through it, with ducks and chickens roaming about. You could see them baking the bread to go with the breakfast. Everything about it was home made there on the premises and so fresh and delicious.

Triple fried chips in a pub not far from here!!

In Portugal, sitting outside under a pergola, a lunch of fresh sardines, delicious crusty bread and a carafe of local wine.
In Croatia on a yacht, fresh fish and delicious sauteed potatoes, local wine.

Greek yogurt and delicious breakfasts in Crete

The most enormous meal we had was in Port Douglas, we took half of ours home for the dogs.

Oh I long for the day when we can travel again, reading about these lovely foods brings back memories. I’d get on a plane to Asia tomorrow if I could.

We had these giant tiger prawns in Singapore. They were the size of small lobsters, just beautiful cooked on an open barbecue in one of their open air markets at night. I can’t get them here. We get tiger prawns but they are small compared with those ones and somehow don’t have the same flavour.

The most mouth-watering pork pie, hand made in a tiny baker's shop in a Yorkshire village. Crumbly, buttery pastry around tasty, spicy pork and a gorgeous jelly. The best I have ever tasted. Sorry Melton Mowbray!

A Papaya salad on a small Thai Island Beach.

Sardines (bocheroni (sp) straight off of the boat and cooked over charcoal at the beach in Spain st bottom of Mums road.

It’s a toss up between shwermas in Dubai in the very old days (before high rise and posh hotels) (much smaller than similarly names monstrosities sold in ‘arabic’ restaurants here), koftas in Cairo (meat hacked off the carcass while we waited, minced and then cooked over charcoal), or ful medammus from the khan in Cairo (fava beans baked slowly overnight, served on the street by vendors carrying large pots of the stuff on their back.)

Breakfast at a hotel in Ibiza in 1968. Bowls of milky coffee (which I usually loathe) and crusty rolls with apricot jam. Bliss! Sadly the rest of the meals were pretty naff.

Lunch sitting by Lake Iseo in Italy. An Italian version of fish fingers and chips with some deep fried olives. Plastic tables and chairs, paper plates, with a crowd of Italians stopping for lunch. I loved it.

Roast lamb and potato’s with salad in Piskopiano Crete about forty years ago. Fresh sardines and salad when staying in Albufeira Algarve ten years ago. Closer to home salt beef bagel from the Beigel Bake Brick lane after attending a relatives wedding.

Fish and chips in a harbour cafe at Falmouth, Cornwall

Crab granary bread sandwiches in Tenby, West Wales

Enormous mussels on a boat trip on NZ

Huge lobster in Texas USA

In 1964, I was travelling by train to Austria with two friends. We had to change trains at Basle where we had breakfast. That coffee was like nothing I had ever tasted and the crisp rolls with black cherry jam were like manna from heaven. I have never, in 57 years forgotten that simple but delicious breakfast.