Food and Drink | Dominik Mayer – Products, Asia, Productivity
Helsinki With Two Vegans
A first view of Finland while disembarking
Finn’s favorite letters on a poster in the tram
Tourist intruding Finish living space
Downtown Helsinki
Counter area of a Finish bank
Ship seen from Helsinki Cathedral
Building with display
Vegetable cheese pasta, not vegan
Near central station, too expensive
Perfect restaurant with dishes without “any animal matters”. Doesn’t serve à la carte food until 3 pm.
Vegetarian chicken
Final destination
My Rice noodles with vegetables
One-week vegan’s noodles with vegetables and separated egg.
Hardcore vegan’s tofu with vegetables
Finish record store
Pedestrian lights
M/S Viking XPRS being built in Helsinki
Advertising for tax free shopping everywhere aboard M/S Mariella.
Temporarily Leaving Stockholm
This display in the Stockholm Metro says you should mind the gap between train and platform. I couldn’t take a picture of the one saying you should pull the emergency brake in case of an accident. But why would you do this if the train won’t stop.
M/S Mariella in Stockholm
Pasta aboard M/S Mariella. Our vegan refused to eat it because it contained cream. One-week vegan removed all the cheese and started eating before we knew about the cream.
What the vegan got instead. Not healthier but the poor little milk animal didn’t have to die for it. ;-)
Stockholm, Day Two
Lidl, closed again.
Pastry at 7-Eleven. The famous Kanelbullar are on the left side.
All the little shops seem to sell bananas.
Noodles with feta. My fellow travellers, a vegan and a one-week vegan, preferred to order it without cheese.
Sergels Torg at Night. I have yet to see Stockhom when it’s not dark…
How to use the emergency brakes in the Stockholm Metro. The question is: Why do you need an emergency break if it doesn’t stop the train?
The same Swedish escalators, but this time the displays show more information. I couldn’t take a picture of the one saying it didn’t work but a technician was on its way.
How to use an escalator.
Out of Bavaria
- About half of the way from Freising to Frankfurt/Hahn is covered with construction sites.
- Most parts of the Autobahn have a speed limit.
- Swabia is a very hilly region.
- Nicotine gums help a smoker to smoke less, and the fellow travellers to avoid health hazards.
- Don’t eat pizza at Frankfurt/Hahn.
- While landing, the pilot has to turn off the cabin lights to comply with safety regulations.
- Flygbussarna bring you from Stockholm-Skavsta Airport to the city. No idea if everyone finally got a place.
- There still are subways on a sunday at 2:40 am.
- Fried spaghetti with barbecue spice taste good… despite a massive amount of salt.
Knut
Preparing for our trip to Stockholm a friend and I ate at IKEA. The man at the table next to us had a yellow toothpick flag in his meat. The text – “Knut” – was quite funny though it was refering to St. Knut’s Day, not the famous polar bear.
Sorcerers' Stove
I really thought it wasn’t even possible for our cafeteria to mess up gnocchi with tomato sauce. Mistake. They burned the sauce.
Rice and Fries
A Chinese friend told me that she has been eating rice twice a day for twenty years. Halleluja. And I thought this is one of these prejudices. But I also thought it couldn’t take three hours to buy, cook and eat french fries…
Sacrifices
A Chinese friend helped me practicing Chinese pronunciation via Skype and I completely forgot about the two baguettes in the oven which got some unpleasant color…
Ice Cube
How can an ice cube get into my closed bottle of lemonade in the fridge and survive in there?
Cocktail Course
I was about to leave university when I heard some some noise and noticed a crowd busy with bottles and glasses. It turned out to be the cocktail course for the upcoming freshmen party. I was offered two free drinks and, as a driver, finally ended up with a tasty nonalcoholic one.
FreeRice
UAE Tumblr pointed to FreeRice, a site which helps you to learn English vocabulary and donates ten grains of rice for each word you get right.
Foreign Fruits
A rather exotic birthday present were two fruits: A horned melon and a pitaya. They don’t only look unfamiliar, they also have an interesting taste.
Asparagus
I think they should accept cooking asparagus as pre-study industrial practical. It contains chipping technology as well as heat treatment and it’s a very serious matter: If all the water accidentally boils away you get roast asparagus. ;-)
Lunch
Lunch was anything but delicious. I refused to eat it up. Others seemed to agree as my plate wasn’t the only one returned half full.
Until now the food has been quite good at the beginning of each academic year and got worse in the course of time. Seems to be no longer valid. We can only hope it’s the other way round now.