Tastebud : An Nam

11 July 2023

Dinner experience at An Nam - a Vietnamese restaurant. There were 3 of us and we shared the dishes.

Pic 1: Appetizer Fried springrolls SEK118

Pic 2: Appetizer Mango salad SEK118 and summer spring rolls (with shrimps) SEK128

Pic 3: Main dishes Vietnamese crepe (crispy rice pancakes filled with shrimps, pieces of entrecote, beansprouts) SEK255, Fried rice with fried egg SEK198 and grilled porkchop with rice SEK218

EVERYTHING WAS YUMMY! But I think the food was pricey. 

Tastebud : TAK

4 July 2023

Dinner experience at TAK. A very expensive restaurant to see a view from the rooftop. Personally, it was nothing extraordinary. I had one of the most affordable dish on the menu - donburi which is hibachi chicken with rice for SEK225. 

Tastebud : Björkvik Bistro (3rd time)

10 June 2023

I think I can call it a tradition when I have visited Bistro Björkvik annually during the summer. This year, I decided to have the fish and chips because it is the cheapest on the menu and my boyfriend is treating 5 people this year. The first time I came here in 2021, I had duck breast which costed 255kr and this year, it costs 335kr! An increase of 80kr. Gosh. The second time in 2022. I had a fish dish - grilled pikeperch for 285kr but this is not the menu this year.  Instead, they have grilled char fillet for 335kr. Unfortunately, I do not know how much the fish and chips costed then. Maybe it is a good thing I don't know, otherwise my heart will ache. 

My fish and chips costs 265kr. It was a huge portion. The chips were a lot. Beneath the two fish fillets were more chips. I finished my food slowly as the sun was shining very hard on me. I was sitting facing the sun. Gosh, I do not enjoy eating under the sun. I do not understand why Swedes love it. I know the sun is scarce during winter and one wants to enjoy every bit of sunlight but it was painful on the skin. 

Tastebud : Madame

8 June 2023

Today's dinner at Madame was SO YUMMY! It is Korean food and I eat it very seldom. It does not usually cross my mind to eat Korean food. Also, the prices discourage me. The first time I had Korean food was at Arirang and it was expensive for me then, as I was not working. Today, it costs even more and I would not go there so often either. In fact, I eat out very seldom. I am working now but I do not find it attractive enough to eat out when I know how to cook them.

There are not many food options to choose from in the menu which I think it is good. One will not be clueless on what to eat. It is a good thing too that we are three persons so that we could try more dishes. Always an advantage to come in a group when one has Asian food. 

For starters, we shared:

1. Kimchi jeon (Kimchi pancake) 140kr. I love the crispy and fried texture of this. It does not taste like the usual pancakes that I have eaten.
2. Tteokbokki (Rice pancakes) 135kr. This texture is very chewy and I feel like I cannot stop chewing. It is a very dense texture. I like the sauce. It could be gochujang. 
3. Hoe (Raw fish with chili and rice vinegar) 165kr. This is a combination of 3 fishes. One of them is tuna. The taste is very mild in this dish after trying 1 and 2. 

Tastebud : Nha Trang (2nd time)

31 May 2023

I visited Nha Trang the first time in 2019. I came back here again because I was meeting the same friend that I went with the first time. This time, there were four of us and we ordered three dishes which became affordable as we shared them.

We had salmon in curry for SEK199, beef stew for SEK259 and vietnamese rice pancake with shrimps for SEK179. Everything was really good. I even ate the green leaf. Yummy!