Brian Zhang Larsen’s Blog

I have just discovered my new favorite web shop. It is with pure joy I can announce that it is actually possible to by Danish sausages of prime quality on the net. I had only heard rumors about it, and when I checked it out, I found a butcher in Sønderborg, that sells the best south danish sausages in THE WORLD!! Start your order here now.

The sausages are from the famous butcher shop in the Marvelous city of Kirke Hørup. I can recommend the potato salami (“Kartoffel spegepølse”) and the amazing “Røget sardel”. And while you’re at it, you can just as well order a bunch of the snack sausages “ølpølser” with that too. A perfect substitute for grapes, or other kinds of fruity after dinner snacks. I am waiting with drool in my mouth, for my order of these fantastic meat filled intestines.

check it here: http://www.schmidtsdelikatesse.dk

Today I was out shopping with my girlfriend in the so called China-town here in Copenhagen. It has its name because of the many small Chinese convenient stores there, but it doesn’t look like the traditional “china towns” we see in the (other) big cities around the world. The picture shows the catch of a normal grocery shopping trip. Unfortunately they didn’t have my favorite food, 3 boxed bolognese pizzas for 20kr anywhere. Instead i found something else; The Chinese equivalent of one of the wonders of the world, FLAN. It is the bag in the lower left corner that contains the divine treat. The English translation says something about “almond soybean cheese” and when I saw that I just had to buy it. That description, combined with the picture on the package made me drewl like a spastic puppy… well not exactly, but I just had to buy this interesting version of the dessert of the wealthy: flan.

By the way, the new temporary top banner is because of the Chinese New Year this Saturday. We will now enter the year of the dog. I myself am a sheep, which of course is a symbol of strength, wisdom and courage. What are you?

Last fall i went to Turkey, and i tastet some türkish specialties which actually tasted pretty good, although the consistency is nothing to celebrate in any way (clearly adds to the downside of this snack). Then recently I tried to buy some in the local greengrocer, but I was quite dissapointed. The consistency was even worse than remembered and the taste was… well not very good. But then i saw the text written on the package, and i don’t mean the words “Super Delicious”. Right there in the middle of the package i saw the word “Lokum” which is a rather bad word for toilet in danish. Apperently the turkish meaning of Lokum is not directly linked to the danish meaning though. But maybe, somehow the etymology behind the danish word may stem from this foreign snack anyway. It is not hard to imagine how a foreign word for some kind of food kan be linked to a danish word for Toilet. After all the danes are not known for their strong stomachs and physical adaptability to foreign foods.