Iceland famous lobster soup. Their lobster is much smaller than our New England lobster.
It is more like our crawfish. It is a great meal if you visit Iceland during colder time.
However, it is that type of soup that really really hard to eat again and again.

Try it once, like it than stop right there is my suggestion with this local soup.

Every time we travel, we like to try some local drinks.
Gull is Icelandic beer, made from fresh Icelandic water.
Nothing special actually, very light tasting.

Schnapps is something special for Iceland. They made many different kinds of schnapps from their local ingredients.
Above and below is Iceland local moss Schnapps.

I gotta say, I bought it and bring it home. You supposed to drink it chilled. I don’t really like it after all. It taste like seaweed strong liquor.
It is not the taste that everyone can take.

Below is Iceland Birch wood Schnapps. Because it is kind of expensive, so we are waiting for a good reason to open it.

Iceland crowberry sweet wine. It goes well with ice cream. Sweet sweet wine.

Iceland’s delicacy, Puffin. I feel guilty to say but puffin is extremely delicious.
However, I won’t recommend to look at Puffin pictures than eat them, because they are super cute.

Below is Icelandic local meat, Lamb sandwich. It is light. Very very tasty.

I tried Absinth while I was in Prague.
The drink is full with star anise taste. If you don’t like that taste, you probably won’t like the drink much.
Below is Becherovka. Another important alcohol from Czech.
It is a wonderful tasting alcohol. You can drink it on the rock, maybe with a bit of lime juice.
Taste wonderful after dinner mid summer drink.

• 2 sticks of butter
• 1/2 of vegetable oil
• 2 cups of sugar
• 5 eggs
• 3 cups of all purpose flour
• 1 cup of milk
• some salt
• some vanilla extract
• some baking powder

1. Separate egg white and yolks.
2. In a large metal bowl, beat egg white until fluffy.
3. In another mixing bowl, mix all together ingredients together.
4. Fold egg white carefully in to the flour mixture.
5. Pour mixture into a greased and floured loaf pan.
6. Bake 350 F for 1hr or until the fork come out of the center of the cake clean.

Top with whipped cream, fresh strawberries and chocolate sauce for added flavor.

• 1-2 slice of fine New York Strip Steaks
• some salt and pepper
• some oil

1. Preheat oven for 425F.
2. Sprinkle salt and pepper on both side of the steak.
3. Add oil to a pan. Place steak in the pan when oil is hot.
4. Fry steak about 30 sec. each side on high heat.
5. Transfer steak into oven.
6. Bake until the center of the steak is 135F for medium.
7. When cooked, allow steak to sit for 5 minutes before cutting.

Enjoy !!!

This is a quick business trip to Detroit. My hotel is at downtown Detroit.
My suggestion to visit Detroit without a car is…bring your own breakfast.
It was so hard to find breakfast around my hotel I remember.

After traveling in Europe for 8 days, this vegetarian restaurant is life saver.
This refreshing and delicious.
Charged by the weight. So you don’t need to over eat.

The restaurant also serve very nice looking dessert.

Than, of course, beer it is.

http://www.palmenhaus.at/

A very beautiful and fancy Viennese restaurant. The food are delicious but the price also high.
Above is duck leg.

My jumbo shrimp.

Bread and hummus.

Beautiful, garden like restaurant.

Very refreshing Viennese  beer. I believe it is 50 percent lemon juice and 50 percent beer.
I really like it. Great for hot summer day.

The famous Mozart chocolate. I thought it is okay. Was a fan of it when I was young, but doesn’t seems I like it as much anymore.