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What were your good and bad culinary surprises while travelling? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would do terrible, terrible things to get a good european bakery in the US. The croissants don't even come close and it makes me sad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I'm lucky that some fragment of French baking has permeated into Canada by way of Québec. We have decent Pain-Au-Chocolat (although they call it chocolatine in Québec) and Croissants in a lot of Canadian cafés and bakeries (small ones, not chains). Not as good as in France, but still decent. I remember thinking I was going to have trouble with continental breakfast since I'm used to eating a big breakfast, but the French viennoise breakfast with some fruit and coffee is actually great.

I also really enjoyed the waffles when I visited Belgium.