Comments on: The single item from home that people miss most while travelling

By: Andy Jarosz

Andy Jarosz — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:55:22 +0000

Kerry, I reckon there’ll be lots of food you’ll miss from HK when you come back to the UK. We have Cadbury’s (the real thing) and cheese – they have so much more. Don’t they?

By: kerry

kerry — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:52:31 +0000

We were saying just yesterday how much we miss good cheese!!! I’ve been in Hong Kong for a year & a half and have been a part of so many conversations about lack of cheese, You can buy it here in most supermarkets but it’s so expensive most people I know can’t afford it on a regular basis. A friend of mine moans that even blocks of cheese taste like the plastic processed stuff here. You can get pizza all over but I think we miss having it in the fridge. I get the chocolate thing as well. Even the same brand name tastes different (Australian vs UK Cadburys etc). That said when I get back to the UK I’ll miss the BBQ pork you get here!

By: Andy Jarosz

Andy Jarosz — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:26:20 +0000

Jacques, you’ll have to post some links to the cheese shops of Vietnam. I haven’t been there myself but from the comments above it looks like many others have missed these, so you’ll be doing a great service

Jason, you can find pizza in most cities in Asia (they’re used to catering for tourists now) but outside of the major towns you’ve got to be prepared for anything.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:21:45 +0000

Some of the best french cheese to be had outside of France, can be found throughout Vietnam…..

By: Jason of Two Backpackers

Jason of Two Backpackers — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:18:13 +0000

I haven’t been to Asia yet, but if you are right and cheese is scarce, then YES, I will miss it! Pizza is my favorite food and while traveling in Latin America I realize that it has become international fare. But, it still has to have good cheese to be considered pizza. Unless of course you are ordering a tomato pie, which I do love to get in Philadelphia.

By: Andy Jarosz

Andy Jarosz — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:02:26 +0000

A chair? That’s funny. Didn’t notice the chairs were bad, but I do tend to sit on the bed in a hotel room. I agree with you on the drinking water. We do take our tap water for granted don’t we? One good thing in Laos is that the water is so bad that even the locals don’t touch it, so almost every restarant and cafe (certainly all those that feed falang) uses bottled water for everything, meaning ice, fruit shakes and juices are safe to drink.

By: Birgitta

Birgitta — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:28:52 +0000

What I miss most in Laos is a comfortable chair and as a whole I am missing chairs of any shape in cheaper hotel rooms all over Asia. Nowhere to put your clothes and just your hard bed to sit on. To live in Laos is like living in a creche as people sit mostly on the floor and the chairs are either little rattan things about 25 cm high or enormous monumental sculptured wooden chairs both ment for torturing a “falang”.
As a Swede I also miss our good drinking water straight from the tap wherever i go outside Scandinavia. And good luck with the cheese shop. I will definitely visit it.

By: Andy Jarosz

Andy Jarosz — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:05:24 +0000

Thanks Sophia, and I agree I would miss ice too. I didn’t know it was hard to get in Greece. Were you in a remote place?
As for your latter point, I reckon I could happily miss that feeling for a very long time

By: Sophia Dembling

Sophia Dembling — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:42:24 +0000

In Greece, it was ice. And when I get home from anywhere, the first thing I want is Tex-Mex.

After a while, I also miss waking up in the morning and not being compelled to go anywhere or do anything.

By: Andy Jarosz

Andy Jarosz — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:20:06 +0000

I missed floss too (but didn’t let it get my down). A few weeks without flossing isn’t going to kill anyone. I’m with you on the Indian food too. I loved Indian food in India so much more than in the UK, that it was a let-down to visit an Indian restaurant back here. The same wasn’t true of China.
Thanks for visiting.