Many people will tell you that a principal reason to explore a new country and culture is to expose your taste buds to new, delicate and delightful sensations that simply don’t exist in your home country. They’d be right: pick up any guidebook and you’ll find pages upon pages detailing the best restaurants, canteens, café and street food vendors everywhere you go. However, what about the best countries and cities for that bamboozling dining experience you’re yearning for? Here’s a quick list of destinations that’ll satisfy the belly in uniquely wonderful ways.
Goa, India
Home of the vindaloo and curried delights fusing Spanish and British colonial appetites with unique indigenous blends of spices and fish, Goa’s white sandy beaches bear hundreds of restaurants overlooking the sea that promise taste sensation that is the envy of India. That’s saying something: a trip to India itself is an odyssey through spice, but dining as the sun sets over the seashore with a Kingfisher beer and world-famous curry is an unrivalled experience.
Athens, Greece
Greek food utilizes a heady blend of Mediterranean recipes with the Oriental influence which comes from being positioned at the gateway to Arabia and the East. Athens, the capital and a major trading post for millennia, offers everything from rooftop splendor to clattering cafés, all serving healthy and wholesome dishes quite unique in the region: from soft tzatziki to nourishing moussaka.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Steak – and sensationally-sourced, cooked and priced steak at that – is the name of the game in this South American city that literally translates as ‘Good Air’. Sometimes fondly referred to as the Paris of Latin America, Buenos Aires shares the reputation of intensely brilliant cuisine with its European cousin. If you’re a steak aficionado, look no further than Argentina: you might find yourself making fawning videos about the meat you encounter and publishing them on YouTube. If you do, use this free thumbnail maker to add a touch of class and delectability to your video that drips with sumptuousness.
Cape Town, South Africa
Maybe it’s the world-class wines that you’ll are regularly quaffed along with food that makes this a much-lauded culinary destination. Breezy sea airs lend white wine grapes a level of maturity that complements incredible fish dishes in this stunning location. Picnics on green lawns with mighty backdrops are something of a local pastime here; you’ll want to load up on cut meats and biltong, or join the natives for a braai – a South African barbecue that can sometimes feature African delicacies, like guinea fowl, crocodile, antelope, and buffalo!
It matters not whether you’re a culture vulture, a beach-dweller or a foodie: traveling provides the unmissable opportunity to branch out where food is concerned, testing your taste buds, sampling a nation’s culture through what you put in your belly. You won’t regret visiting these destinations for food and fun; best of all, they all offer culinary classes that’ll enable you to bring those tastes home with you.
