Oslo Food Diaries
I have been tinkering on my files all the time actually, just that we have to wait till next week when we get the telephone connection gets sorted out.
Today I discovered the “immigrant area” see how fast my sense of smell takes me to this kind of place? First I saw a Pakistani shop, full of spices no spring roll wrappers, but I had jasmine rice. I can survive without rice for a while but its a comfort to know I have some in my cupboard.
Next store… many african and women in veils…spices aha… got some lebanese bread and some chili sauce.
Then M said enough at the mo we have to do some shopping for work. See Oslo many one way street took us right infront of Thai-Vietnamesse store. But we had to park somewhere , a block later I ended at a Sri Lankan store.
OK rice paper for spring rolls and they actually have Mama Sita, but am not a mama sita person. Got some glutinous rice maybe for some palitaw. Ugh no coconut. I saw it at the second store.
We did our shopping and checked some kitchen gadgets including a cake tube pan for my conquest to bake a chiffon cake! Now back to where I saw that Thai store.
Am glad I have a good sense of bearing, without the map I found back the vietnamese-thai. I didn´t even bother to look at the prices!
What I got were some string bean fresh wow! Sitaw I think in tagalog! Some real spring roll and wonton wrappers, rice, egg and soya noodles.
And what I found, sampaloc, tamarind from the Philippines and some dried mango from Cebu.
OK I lost count how much I spent, but I could not care less, on the way home, gjemme in norsk, we stopped at the Kurdistan store near our urghh upscale area. Feta and olives… and good greek olive oil.
Fine, great day, I cooked the beans with chicken and serve with jasmine rice. No wine but a glass of beer with our meal. And by the way a glass of beer is about 5UK pounds, 8euro, 10$.
PS. I am very happy to see the other side of Oslo! More to come with great photos!
Frankly, I had not expected to see shops selling food items from so many Asian countries In Oslo. It’s more cosmopolitan and international than I expected. But then I can see so many restaurants mushrooming all over where I live, offering cuisine from countries all over the world. I guess I should not be surprised.
hi Sha, good to know you arrived safe in Norway. I’ve heard there’s quite a sizeable Pinoy community there in Oslo. Have you met any Pinoys yet? I will be waiting for your pictures. 🙂
BAYI; I wanted to write a long comment but am in public place. It exciting to see this kind of immigrant places BUT.. here is the BUT.. YESTERDAY TOO.. we found that its much more like a immigrant GHETTO. this is now the political social issue concerning most european cities. WILL THESE IMMIGRANTS ASSIMILATE, intergrate to their host country? We saw a huge mosque. On the edges of this ghetto we found another area which is what you can call a mix trendy immigrant place too, but cleaner and safer. Think day per day with my “nose” we are finding many exciting places.
OSLO is not as big as London on my term of cosmopolitan.
We saw many Thai and Vietnamesse resto, today we saw good Lebanese resto and 2 Greek ones, my husband said he will go when he gets desperate.
We have talked about going to Greece this June. Will you be staying in Athens just for the days on the awards????
I know a hotel called Sha’s Inn hehehehe, am pretty central walking distance to all places and you can walk till 3 to 5 am safely.
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MANANG CELIA
I miss HIGH TEA damn really scones cream tea… sucks!
No we have not met any Pinoys yet though yesterday we made a wrong turn and ended up in front of St Olavs church and guess what GOOD FRIDAY, most of our kababayan wer just coming out from the mass.
We shall see we will take it easy. Weird I miss Waitrose and Tesco very much, they dont have big shops here where you can forever go from one aisle to another!
Hi Schatzli, it is great to read about your adventures. I always love discovering new places. I look forward to the photos!
Glad to hear you are settling in somewhat to your new home. Good luck with identifying more food sources that will provide you with the ingredients you need! Cheers.
Hey..Sha,
I await to hear about your new adventures in Olso.. 🙂 Like you .. i’m in a foreign country.. so i can understand how delighted one gets.. when they find an asian grocery store.. 😉 i just jump for joy.. when i see them.. 😉 my spouse thinks i’m a little crazy.. but how is he to know.. when he is not me right.. hahha!!
MRS T When we found out that there is a German shop in Athens, my husband too was so happy. we are all the same I think.
I remember our weekly shopping to the German shop, krauts, cervelat etc and our Sunday brunch is always from our goodies from the German Store!
Well maybe when your husband will move and live somewhere else he might as well expercience the joy of finding the food he loves.