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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 2743442, member: 1674"] I was always a really picky eater growing up. For example, I didn't eat pasta with sauce until I was in college. Likewise with barbeque. Pizza had to simply be pepperoni and cheese and no other toppings. You get the idea. I started to get into travelling when I met my girlfriend, who at this point has been to seemingly every country at this point and as I started to branch out with travelling, I began to use that as motivation to try new foods while in new places. I want to immerse myself in the culture at least a little bit. It's really changed everything for me. 5 or so years ago, I had never eaten any Asian cuisines at all, and I've now learned that I love Chinese food, Thai food, Indian food, etc. After graduating from Syracuse back in 2014, my family went to Belize to celebrate and spent one week exploring Mayan ruins while sleeping in a little (thankfully air-conditioned) hut where the owners prepared Belizean meals each day. I unfortunately only have one picture of the food that I had there, mostly just pictures of the ruins and whatnot, but I remember wandering into a city called San Ignacio one night and stumbling upon a restaurant that was selling something like 4 tacos for $1 and they were absolutely to die for. [IMG]https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/10363680_10152558432528623_2485381597186282395_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=fa223a8cf9ae548a414c4aad13508e11&oe=5C4FCDB8[/IMG] Most recently, we traveled to England and Spain, and I had the absolute best food I've ever had in Barcelona and San Sebastian. In Barcelona, we found a restaurant close to the apartment that we were staying in and thought we'd give it a try, but they unfortunately were booked at the time. We came back the next day at 6:00 (that's when they open) and asked for a table and they said they could sit us down but we'd have to be out of there by 10:00. We thought, "Surely we'll be out of here in 4 hours..." so obviously we took the table. It was hands down the best meal I've ever had. Even my extremely well-traveled and food-obsessed girlfriend said it was at least a top 3 meal for her. We ended up staying there for all 4 hours, ate 2 appetizers, 2 main courses, and I think 3 or 4 desserts. I seriously want to go back to Barcelona just to go back to this restaurant again. Below is a picture of my favorite main course that I had there; some kind of sausage with these incredible peppers and legumes of some sort. [IMG]https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19642384_10155626423413623_1002091522296229893_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=40efbec0950e9b722a8418572e3e3efb&oe=5C4613D1[/IMG] In San Sebastian, it's basically all about tapas (called pintxos there), but the two things that really stood out were desserts I had there. One place is apparently famous for their cheesecake, and when you walk in, you literally see cheesecakes EVERYWHERE. I mean just from opening the door I could see at least 200 cheesecakes lining the walls and shelves; every nook and cranny of this place had a cheesecake. These cheesecakes were nearly burned on the outside but were nearly liquid on the inside. It was like no cheesecake I've ever had before and it was phenomenal. There was another place that made a dessert called torrija, which was basically like a french toast but I believe it had alcohol or some sort of fermentation going on with it. It came with cinnamon ice cream and little rolled up stick of chocolate. [IMG]https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19732261_10155633951448623_6481318544861074215_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=56ea4cf08355b7335ea6088956fe491b&oe=5C4C669F[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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