Eating my way through Tunis
Because the food in Tunisia deserved its separate post 😋
Just saying this at the top, traveling to a different country is always a daunting experience for me because I have specific dietary limitations on top of being picky. So four weeks in Tunisia was 100% an interesting culinary journey and I learned a lot.
Food portions in Tunisia are huge and it took me half a week (plus not eating lunch that day) to finally finish a dish by myself
Tunisia has A LOT of pasta.
On my third day there, someone told me “Did you know that Tunisia is ranked second in terms of countries that consume the most pasta?”
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Most of the restaurants we’ve been to offer several pasta dishes and I have to say, I happily contributed to this statistic 🍝 I didn’t do an official count but it could have been easily 10 or more times that I ordered pasta and for context, I was only there for 28 nights 😅
They take their desserts seriously and I discovered my absolute favorite ice cream flavor there: crispy vanilla! I’ll probably try to recreate it back home when the nostalgia hits hard 🍦Another dessert (well, I had them for ‘lunch’ two out of three times) was the bambalouni. It was SO GOOD. Probably the only time I would walk uphill for dessert but it was worth it.
And finally, the local food was also very memorable. During our first full weekend, we attended a cooking workshop and was taught how to cook couscous and brik and for sure I will attempt to make the latter back home. Since Tunisia was influenced by the tomato Europe countries, that was a little bit of an adjustment for because while I don’t eat tomatoes, I eat dishes with tomato sauce. (Totally random: another weird food thing I have is about egg yolks — I will eat it in almost all its forms except when it’s boiled) But my tip here is to find someone who you can pawn off your tomatoes to 👀
So sorry if this post made you hungry, that makes two of us 🍴
