New Foods

We've had a lot of questions about new foods that we've tried on our trip.  So we created this chart to show them.  We'll add to it as we try new things.

 

	Food	Jamie	Jason	Lauri	Larry
Australia	Calamari	Liked	Did not try	(already liked)	(already liked)
Australia	Lamington	Adored	Adored	Loved	Liked
Australia	Vegemite	YUCK	YUCK	YUCK	YUCK
Australia	Tim Tams (a kind of candy)	Adored	Adored	So-so	Liked
Cambodia	Sticky rice steamed in bamboo	So-so	Did not like	Liked	Loved
Cambodia	Fried Spiders	So-so	Did not try	Did not like	So-so
Cambodia	Sugar cane juice	Adored	Adored	Already liked	Already liked
Cambodia	Red ants (in a spicy beef stir fry)	Did not try	Did not try	Liked	Loved
Costa Rica	Fried plantains	Disliked (yuck)	Liked	(already liked)	(already liked)
Costa Rica	Rambutan (a fruit)	(already loved)	Loved!	Liked	(already loved)
Galapagos	Lobster	Disliked	Did not try	(already liked)	(already liked)
Galapagos	Tamarindo juice	Adored!	Liked	Liked	Adored!
Galapagos	Tomate de arbol juice	Disliked	Adored!	Loved!	Loved!
India	Baby corn pakora	So-so	Did not try	Already liked	Already liked
India	Chocolate chapati	Adored	Loved	Liked	Liked
India	Naan	Already loved	Loved	Already loved	Already loved
India	Dosa	So-so	Liked	Already liked	Already loved
India	Milk cake	Liked	Did not like	Liked	So-so
India	Puttu (coconut and rice flour – breakfast food) with mashed up bananas and palm syrup	Loved	So-so	Loved	Liked
India	Kerala (southern state) cooking – lots of fresh vegetable dishes that are not curries	So-so	Mostly did not try	Adored	Adored
Peru	Aguaymanto (fruit)	So-so	Loved!	Liked	Liked
Peru	Alpaca	DID NOT TRY!	DID NOT TRY!	Liked (will not try again)	So-so
Peru	Cactus Pear Fruit - like kiwi (different than Tuna fruit)	Liked	Liked	Loved!	Loved!
Peru	Cooked quinoa	Loved loved!	So-so	(already loved)	(already loved)
Peru	Cuy (guinea pig)	DID NOT TRY!	DID NOT TRY!	So-so (will not try again)	So-so
Peru	Grenadines	Disliked (yuck)	Loved!	Liked	Liked
Peru	Lake Titicaca lake trout	Loved!	Did not try	(already loved)	(already loved)
Peru	Quinoa dry breakfast cereal - chocolate	Loved!	Adored!	Liked	Liked
Peru	Quinoa soup	Liked	Did not try	Loved!	Loved!
Peru	Rice pudding	(already loved)	Loved!	(already loved)	(already liked)
Peru	Rocoto relleno (stuffed peppers in Peru)	Did not try	Did not try	Loved!	Loved!
Peru	Tuna (prickly pear cactus fruit)	Loved!	Loved!	Loved!	Liked
Peru	Yucca (a root like potato)	Disliked	Disliked	(already liked)	(already loved)
Quito, Ecuador	Babaco fruit	Liked	Liked	Liked	Liked
Vietnam	Vietnamese egg pancakes (about the size of half dollar)	Liked	So-so	Liked	Liked
Vietnam	Milky fruit	So-so	Did not like	Liked	Liked
Vietnam	Longan (fruit)	Loved	Liked	Liked	Loved
Vietnam	Asian pear	Loved	So-so	Loved	Already liked
Vietnam	Pomelo (related to a grapefruit – but larger and sweeter)	Adored	Adored	Adored	Adored
Vietnam	Vietnamese filter coffee	Liked	Did not try	Adored	Loved
Vietnam	Jack fruit	Did not like	Liked	Adored	Adored
Vietnam	Mangosteen	Did not like	Liked	Loved	Adored

 

 

Remember tamarind or camarind in cambodia