Now that the boring holidays are over we’re thinking about Chinese New Year food. Chinese New Year 2025 is just around the corner on January 28, 2025 and will be the year of the wood dragon! While it’s not something we celebrated growing up in small towns but there’s no reason to miss out on it […]
In Norway, seafood is more of an everyday food than a luxury item. Most Norwegians live near the coast, giving them ready access to all sorts of fish including but not limited to salmon. Salmon reigns supreme among fish in the Norwegian diet. If it were up to us, we’d exclusively eat salmon in Norway […]
Cacio e pepe is a simple dish to construct but a tricky dish to master. Once you get it right, our preparation will be a lazy weeknight favorite. The first step is to grate cheese. When we say grate cheese, we mean grate a lot of cheese. To really get the impact of the Pecorino […]
Discover the Caipirinha.The tasty cocktail is Brazil’s national drink. Image: ©2foodtrippers More than 200 million Brazilians can’t be wrong with their love for the Caipirinha cocktail. But this love is not exclusive to Brazil. Caipirinhas are popular in Portugal too. Since Brazil was a Portuguese colony for three centuries, the two countries remain intertwined with […]
This year Tet isJanuary 28, 2025 Tet, or Tet Nguyen Dan to give the festival its full name, is the most important festival in the Vietnamese calendar. Wondering what food to eat for Tet? It is celebrated on the first day in the Lunar calendar. The festival usually lasts up to seven days in late January […]
There are three essential phases when cooking shrimp acorda:. Sautéeing the shrimp. Making flavorful stock with the shells and heads of the shrimp. Cooking, thickening and finishing the soaked bread mixture. After you gather the necessary ingredients and kitchen tools, the first step is to cut the shrimp, shell the shrimp and separate the heads. […]
Ranch Water may not be on your cocktail radar unless you live in Texas. However, this tequila highball cocktail is so easy to craft and refreshing to drink that it may become your favorite summer sipper. Image: ©2foodtrippers We never heard of Ranch Water until we made a deep dive into researching tequila cocktails. We’d […]
The Whiskey Highball is as classic as it is modern. The popular two-ingredient cocktail has been around for centuries but it tastes as fresh as ever. Image: ©2foodtrippers We first encountered the Whiskey Highball back in 2016 when we visited Osaka. During our week long visit, it wasn’t uncommon for us to see suited Japanese […]
Simultaneously sweet and sour, the Brown Derby cocktail is ideal for a lazy brunch or a cosy night by the fire. The addition of maple syrup makes this prohibition cocktail simply impossible to resist. Image: ©2foodtrippers The Brown Derby cocktail is our new favorite bourbon cocktail. Granted, we say this almost every time we craft […]
Discover tasty American chip brands and learn ones are best. Image: ©2foodtrippers Our love for chips is vast and varied. We love eating chips of all shapes and sizes. We love both potato chips and corn chips. We love chips that are fried and we love chips that are baked. And we love chips in […]