Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Joe "F" has requested a description of the food in Prague. You can find any type of food you want here. We have free breakfast at the dorm and they always serve hard boiled eggs, rye bread, jam, butter, cheeses, some kind of fruit, a cereal, yogurt, a pastry, tea and coffee. If you want to go out for breakfast like in the US you have to look for an American breakfast. This is because pancakes here are actually crepes. I also think its not as big a deal as it is at home. You can buy many different types of cereal at the grocery store. There are also a lot of places where you can get different breakfast places and coffee. Not that many places have coffee to go and most people sit down in a cafe and drink it. Regular American filter coffee is also rare and places mostly have cappuccino and lattes. For lunch there are a lot of cafes you can go to and get just a sandwich or a salad or a full meal if you want to. For dinner you can get just about anything but typical Czech food is pork, dumplings and cabbage. I don't think it is a surprise to anyone that I haven't tried this seeing as how I haven't been involved in organ meat monday, sausage sunday or other alliterated meat themed days in a few years. Most places have pretty big menus where you can get all sorts of meats, chicken, salads, soups, vegetarian dishes, pastas and sides such as dumplings and roasted potatoes. There are also plenty of places to get different ethnic foods. It's also difficult to figure out the nutrition facts because there is not standard labeling, its listed as per 100 grams but not everything is packaged as a 100 grams. They also use more whole milk and real sugar so we have been trying to hunt down splenda and other aspartame cancer causing products. I am not yet an expert on Czech food but I will report more as I learn more. One thing that is interesting is that when you go out to eat here it takes a lot longer than it does at home. Here you can sit as long as you want and the waiter does not stand over you trying to rush you away. You also do not have to leave as big of a tip as at home, just around 10% or even less if the service is really bad.

6 comments:

  1. Now we need to know about the deserts and street foods. And did you find the "chocolate cake"???

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  2. Nice! Now something I can relate too. If it makes you feel any better, Im eating out of a cheerios box the size of an index card in my Boston hotel. MISS YOU!

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  3. Deserts and street foods will be my next entry. Vinny, you can easily change the quality of your food and your missing of me by coming to visit! DO IT!

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  4. Boner, there are flights available for under $500.

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  5. Hannah, do you make money with these ads? Should I be clicking on them?

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