Food and drink in 2019

[squirmelia]

Food and drink I think I tried for the first time in 2019:

Ice-cream:
Strawberry pocky
Cinnamon bun roll
Jammie dodger
Cherry cola
Irn bru
Vimto
Purple shiso leaf
Apricot and sour cream
Apricot kernel butter
Mango and sumac
Pomegranate molasses and tarragon
Secret breakfast (bourbon and cornflake cookies)
Thai tea
Rainbow sherbet
Aperol spritz
Breakfast in Turin
Peach oolong
Tomato and basil
Madeleine ice-cream
Blackberry and lavender
Ube
Milo
Grilled sweetcorn
Buontalenti
Oat
Cardamom
Irish velvet
Lemon and poppyseed
Dragonfruit
Gypsy tart
Queso
Calamansi
Purple carrot cake
St Patrick's Day sundae (lucky clover ice cream, chocolate potato cake and stout chocolate sauce)
Durian
Hong Kong Milk Tea
Pomegranate and mastic
Zabione
Baklavas crema
Chicory coffee chocolate chip

Other sweet things:
Baked bean truffle
Snowcones
Pink praline
Coussin de Lyon
Chuckleberry jam
A sweet marked “surreal”
Lego biscuit

Savoury:
Lutenica
Faux salmon
Salad from Growing Underground
Tarte flambée
Lego brick shaped burger
Goujon
Greggs' vegan sausage roll

Drinks:
Icy fluffy sweet potato slush
Ada Lovelace gin
In Fairyland cocktail
Elderflower and cucumber cider
Hello World Cocktails
Tatratea liqueur
Mastiha liqueur
Mexican Lion Boy coffee

Previous years:
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013

What did you eat or drink for the first time in 2019? (No animals please!)

Comments

[miss_newham]

Do you have an alert on your phone that goes off whenever you're anywhere near a new ice cream flavour? That's an amazing list!

I think the only new things I've tried were the vegan sausage roll and... that weird fermented soy thing they like in Japan. Natto!

[squirmelia]

I don't have an alert, but perhaps I should! I wish I had kept better records of my ice-cream eating. I seem to have eaten a lot of ice-cream this year! I think some of my favourite flavours from the list were: ube (from Mamasons), Breakfast in Turin (coffee/chocolate chip, from Gelatorino), apricot & sour cream (from Ruby Violet), most of the Chin Chin Labs ones have been good but nothing is standing out right now. The worst flavour (for me) was durian, as it seems durian fruit still makes me feel nauseous! (from Yolkin).

Natto, ooh! Any good?

[miss_newham]

Oh, Breakfast in Turin sounds great! Which are your favourite London ice cream places?

I tried to like natto so I'd have more vegetarian options in Japan, but it has a really odd taste that I couldn't really get used to! Boiled rice for me...

[miss_newham]

And Kake has reminded me that I also had a masala dosa for the first time! That was good.

[squirmelia]

Excellent!

[squirmelia]

It depends where and what I'm looking for. :)

Danieli if I am in Richmond.
ChinChin for weird flavours and if I'm in Soho/Camden.
Ruby Violet if I'm in King's Cross.
La Gelatiera has some good standard flavours and some unusual flavours sometimes, in Covent Garden.
3Bis in Borough/London Bridge.

Chinatown has good ice cream options such as:
Mamasons I only discovered this year. Filipino ice-cream! Yolkin was also one I went to this year for the first time - think it's Vietnamese. Macarons and looks cute and interesting flavours.

[nou]

Ragda petis
Hibiscus flowers (had them as a drink, never eaten them before)
Vegetarian nasi lemak (only had the omnivorous version before)
Chole bhatura (I’ve had chickpeas and fried bread before, but not this particular bread)
Mish-mash (I’ve had menemen, but this is the Bulgarian version)
Chatpate
Arepa
Paruppu vadai (on the right — the thing on the left is a vegetable roll)
Sev puri
Gateau piment

[squirmelia]

I am feeling really hungry now looking at your pictures! It all looks great!

[iguana]

Every year I see you post this and think I should start keeping a list, and then I never remember to do so! I'm sure I must have had new foods this year, though I can't think of any offhand that are vegan rather than veggie.

[squirmelia]

I mostly just went through my monthly lists and pulled out food I had mentioned. :)

They are created from a mixture of looking at my calendar and at Swarm.

[glyn]

Christmas Pudding cheesecake

chilli mead
jalapeño sour cream
sriracha wasabi sauce

jemput-jemput

plant-based jerky
Greggs' much-hyped vegan roll
jackfruit burrito
tofu-ish and chips
...I've lost track of all the soy-based alternatives I've tried, now that Iceland etc. are getting into that market.

[squirmelia]

I have looked up jemput-jemput!

Chilli mead sounds curious.. oh, I guess I had hopped mead for the first time. (Prefer normal mead.)

[laurenthemself]

I have tried a lot of random new snacky things this year because one of my co-workers brings treats back when she goes overseas, but I think my favourite was the seaweed popcorn.

[squirmelia]

Seaweed popcorn, ooh, that sounds interesting!