Post by ukbill on Oct 17, 2016 19:17:47 GMT -5
OK sorry this has taken so long and apologies for it not being as comprehensive as I would like.. time is such a short commodity..
OK mostly it's like the UK with a few slight differences..
This is of course of no use to you if you have never come to the UK before.
Mostly the food is just great! The South Africans have a great respect for large lumps of meat on your plate.. and its not often messed about with (as in France) so is safe for us to eat.
However one slight problem.. you have to order your meat with no "basting" this is a brown molasses / fruit based sauce the Beor / Africans love to slather on all meat after cooking..
In some country backwaters its occasionally hard to find people who speak good enough English to understand.. but if you point to the meat on the menu and say NO Basting (or have a companion who speaks afrikaans.. as I did) its no problem.
Also leave any bread that looks glossy on the surface or is anything but white inside.. Tea is available everywhere as is good coffee.
Food is so cheap its rude not to eat it..
A breakfast in a posh restaurant at an airport cost £3.60 .. about $4 in today's money..
For that I got an 8oz Sirloin steak, 2 x beef burgers, 1 foot long sausage made from beef and venison, 2 eggs, hash browns, 6 rashers of bacon, toast and fried tomato. They held the baked beans.. and the food had taste! Wonderful 10 days holiday and + 8lbs in weight!
All around there are Nando's.. (much hotter than the version we get in the UK .. Australian heat levels.. be aware) Wimpies (like McD's but good food and no sugar in every damn thing) fish and chip shops serving wonderful fish and chips (which seem to be safe to me) KFC (tastes actually like chicken as well unlike in the UK where the meat has no discernable flavour at all) and all for silly cheap money.
If you can survive in the USA.. I believe you can survive just about anywhere.. (except Thailand and possibly Vietnam) Australia can be a bit of a problem because they are taking the American way of "Brineing " all their meat.. this "Brine" is not salt (sodium Chloride) but mostly sugar and polyphosphates to stop the injected water leaking out of the meat.
still the labeling in the supermarkets is good and lists all the ingredients so you can eat safe.
Hope this helps?
Keep smiling.
OK mostly it's like the UK with a few slight differences..
This is of course of no use to you if you have never come to the UK before.
Mostly the food is just great! The South Africans have a great respect for large lumps of meat on your plate.. and its not often messed about with (as in France) so is safe for us to eat.
However one slight problem.. you have to order your meat with no "basting" this is a brown molasses / fruit based sauce the Beor / Africans love to slather on all meat after cooking..
In some country backwaters its occasionally hard to find people who speak good enough English to understand.. but if you point to the meat on the menu and say NO Basting (or have a companion who speaks afrikaans.. as I did) its no problem.
Also leave any bread that looks glossy on the surface or is anything but white inside.. Tea is available everywhere as is good coffee.
Food is so cheap its rude not to eat it..
A breakfast in a posh restaurant at an airport cost £3.60 .. about $4 in today's money..
For that I got an 8oz Sirloin steak, 2 x beef burgers, 1 foot long sausage made from beef and venison, 2 eggs, hash browns, 6 rashers of bacon, toast and fried tomato. They held the baked beans.. and the food had taste! Wonderful 10 days holiday and + 8lbs in weight!
All around there are Nando's.. (much hotter than the version we get in the UK .. Australian heat levels.. be aware) Wimpies (like McD's but good food and no sugar in every damn thing) fish and chip shops serving wonderful fish and chips (which seem to be safe to me) KFC (tastes actually like chicken as well unlike in the UK where the meat has no discernable flavour at all) and all for silly cheap money.
If you can survive in the USA.. I believe you can survive just about anywhere.. (except Thailand and possibly Vietnam) Australia can be a bit of a problem because they are taking the American way of "Brineing " all their meat.. this "Brine" is not salt (sodium Chloride) but mostly sugar and polyphosphates to stop the injected water leaking out of the meat.
still the labeling in the supermarkets is good and lists all the ingredients so you can eat safe.
Hope this helps?
Keep smiling.