Just to make you hungry: TRAVELOGUE / GASTROLOGUE

Hello everyone!

I went on a fun little trip last weekend. I had a business meeting with a newly started Blockchain consultancy in Stockholm and I used the opportunity to meet up with another good friend who came from Helsinki to see me. She joined me during the afternoon part of my meeting on Saturday.

After the meeting we went to a nearby indoors market with lots of cute little cafés and restaurants:

I was only a few hours after lunch, so we weren’t that hungry yet. Instead, we shared a big pot of rooibos tea (shout out to @teamsouthafrica!). The the clock approached dinner time, we ventured into an Asian Fusion restaurant and shared a bowl of sashimi, including some typically Swedish morsels, like reindeer and moose. So yummy, all of them!

The bowl was served with three kinds of dips: soya sauce, oil with chili, and a kimchi-flavoured sauce. My friend and I agreed that all three were great, but kimchi was the best!

We spent the night at my friends’ lovely house in the outskirts of Stockholm. Next morning we headed to the city centre to meet-up with the old-time friend from our student years in Lund, her partner and they baby-girl. We ate brunch at one of my favourite cafés in Stockholm: Cykelcafé Le Mond.

I had a plate of three American pancakes with maple syrup, two fried eggs, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, pieces of kiwi fruits, oranges, watermelons, honeymelons, green sprouts and goat cheese. The combination of contrast flavours was delicious and the food itself very filling!

After the brunch we spent a couple of hours exploring some tourist attractions and then, once were a little tired, headed back to my friends’ house. There we helped to cook a dinner of vegan hamburgers with mashed potatoes and sauerkraut as a side dish. Yum!

Then it was time for me and my Finnish friend to hurry to the ferry terminal to catch a boat to Turku, Finland. Originally we planned to have a buffet dinner onboard, but, as we still felt very full after the meal of hamburges, we went straight for the dessert!

We both chose a plate of vanilla cream custard served with mint, strawberries, and rhubarb jam. I had a glass of sweet dessert white wine with mine and my friend had cider.

Next morning my friend got on land and I stayed onboard for a return day-trip to Sweden. This time I took full advantage of the buffet restaurant onboard. My lunch consisted of a different seafoods, and lot of veggies fried in a dough, tempura-style. I think I had tempura mushrooms, tempura baby-corn, tempura red beets, tempura broccoli and a few others…

I also had a plate of small cakes and a cup of chocolate mousse, but I forgot to snap a pic, sorry!

I had a table by the bow window and could enjoy a lovely view of the archipelago, as I sipped my tea:

That’s it, folks! I hope you enjoyed my gastrologue!

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