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Food again

The last post I was talking about pastries but now I´m going to talk about all the things I ate these days with my parents. the first day it was very late so we went to one place really near to the apartment, and I really liked it, it was a place of pizzas but they have Finnish products, we ordered one with reindeer and one with salmon and they were very good! My parents really like salmon so we ate more times, we tried the famous salmon soup in Helsinki and I have to say that I was surprised with the flavour, it was good; we ate salmon also with the black bread from here in a kind of toast, and also another toast with shrimps. My parents don´t like so much fast food places but because of the expensive restaurants here on weekends and the timetables for having lunch we ate in two fast food places, of course, one was Hesburguer, the most famous in Finland, it´s everywhere! And the other one was a street stall called Grilli, in Turku, and I also have seen at least three Grilli stalls; anyway, they liked the burgers, so perfect!
What else? Oh, yes, we ate at the market in Turku, and I ordered something that it´s not typical of here but a lot of people eat it in Finland, it´s fries with sausage. Also, they ate the typical sausages from here, but we did them in the oven because we didnñt have a fireplace. We ate a cheese typical from here (I don´t know the name) but it´s like "cooked", with blackberries jam; I made these fish sticks, that I don´t know if it´s typical but it´s quite often at the canteen of university so I guess that it is.
We ate more things but not typical from here so I guess it´s not relevant! But, we went to a buffet for lunch one day, and it is very common here, so the food was international but the concept of the meal was something from here, so they lived the whole experience.


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