This last week my parents were here visiting me so we tried to eat as much traditional food as we could, avoiding paying huge amounts of money (because Finland is much more expensive than Spain). I´m pretty sure that we tried all of the pastries typical from here because each street stall we saw we bought something to try it. One pastry is really expensive, the less we paid it was 2€ in a really nice cafe in Porvoo and the most maybe 3.5€. I can´t remember the names of them because they were Finnish names, but of course, we tried the cinnamon rolls in the best place to eat them, in a cafe called Regatta in Helsinki, it´s really nice!!! We tried also the one that it´s pink in the top and has strawberry jam inside, I made the Carelian pastries for them (the frozen ones), we tried one pastry which was like bread but a bit sweet and it was very good, and another one with kind of spreadable cheese on the top, and that one with something yellow inside and on the top; also my mom wanted to try this one famous from Germany, and some more that I can´t remember right now. There is one that is not typical but it was sooo good, it was a cupcake with candy clouds on the top.
I have to dedicate one post to the alcohol because it´s really expensive here! First of all, you can´t buy "hard" alcohol at the supermarket, as you can in Spain. Here, at the supermarket, you only can buy some beers or cider (maximum 5% of alcohol) but nothing else. So, if you want to buy wine, vodka, gin, or beers with more % of alcohol you have to go to a specific shop, called Alko, they are near supermarkets normally, and for example, in Turku city centre there are two. But, remember this: if you want to buy alcohol you have to show your ID card, but also the people who go with you have to show it (one time I went with a friend but it was me the one who was buying and I couldn´t because she didn´t have it). They say that they do it to have control of the alcohol, but they don´t count the consuming of each person or something, it´s just a different shop because it´s from the Government so it earns money with that. Furthermore, they have another restriction, if you are 18...
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