Its official. I'm having borderline pornographic thoughts about American food.
I have this fantasy where I'm eating a Publix sub with Boar's head turkey, mayo, American cheese, lettuce, onions, salt and pepper.
That's the whole fantasy.
If you follow me on Pinterest, you will have noticed that I've been pinning a lot of food pictures. This is a direct result of how hungry I am for western food.
It's not that the food here is bad… It's not. I've had some really delicious meals, but I miss being able to cook for myself. And the food here is just so homogeneous. You can go to 5 different restaurants and the food at them is all basically the same; the quality varies, but not really much in terms of the menu.
Also, the kitchen that I have access to, and I use the word kitchen loosely, really only has one burner and a sometimes broken microwave. A few weeks ago I finally broke down and bought a knife, cutting board, a wok, and some Tupperware. Now I'm going to have to start being creative with my recipes.
The great thing about the United States is that we have access to such a huge variety of foods and ingredients— American food, Mexican food, Thai food, Chinese food, Italian food, Turkish food, Indian food, any kind of food you want really, and the ingredients to cook any or all of those things…
You may have to hit up a specialty store for some ingredients, but you can generally find what you are looking for. Actually, not only can you find what you are looking for, you get a variety of options of that one thing to choose from. Publix brand. Kraft. Sargento. Some Organic Brand. Something really cool that I haven't even heard of yet.
In China, not so much.
The message here: Americans, appreciate the diversity of your supermarket. It's a beautiful thing.
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