What We Ate on the Train

Not cheap!

Mon mari's lunch of ham & cheese sandwich and a slice of flan for dessert

These were what we brought with us to eat on the train from Lyon to Brussels.
I hardly ever buy chinese food in Europe
because it's too expensive for something that I can easy make at home at a fraction of the price.
But I was super craving for chinese food before we get on the train
and I really didn't feel like having a sandwich.
 

Marks & Spencer's Take Away Food

Food for the train ride back.

Prawn + Mayo + Bread = Yum.
Make yourself one at home.

Ate this salad the following day because I couldn't have it on the train.
Took a spoon instead of a fork, plus I have one too many prawn mayo sandwiches.

These are what I got from Marks & Spencer's for the train trip back to Brussels.
Yes, it's quite a lot of food for 1 person
but I was there at lunch rush hour and there were many people grabbing sandwiches there.
There was adrenaline and excitement and so I bought a little more than I need.
I love prawn and mayonnaise sandwiches.
It's not ideal for the cholesterol, yes but prawn and mayo and bread are so good together.

I couldn't resist salads with flowers in them! FLOWERS in a supermarket salad! Wow!
It came with a spicy chili dressing.
I'm not so sure about the combo of the two
but FLOWERS in a supermarket salad, y'all!

Road Trip to the South: New Orleans

Cafe Du Monde
(after a TORTUROUS long wait for lunch at Stanley restaurant.
No photo from Stanley because we were driven INSANE by hunger)  

Crowded but hey! NO line when we came :)

Sugar fix (after the depressing long lunch wait)
Chicory flavor in the coffee... hmm... interesting...

We didn't order ham at Mother's.

Seafood Platter
(fried oysters, fried catfish, fish softshell crab & fried shrimps with turnip green and grits)

Gee... it's either a seafood gumbo or a jambalaya or a shrimp creole...
featuring hyper overcooked shrimp that tasted like crumbly erasers

At Johnny's Po-boy

Shrimp Po-boy

Another dose of beignet and coffee

I LOVE seafood and decided to have only seafood Po-boys for meals in New Orleans.
There is only 1 photo of a shrimp Po-boy belonging the table next to us at Johnny's
because I couldn't remember to take a pic before eating 
and often, neither does my sister or mon ami.


The better seafood we have eaten in New Orleans were the fried ones.
The seafood we had, done in other ways, (etc Jambalaya or the baked crab from Restaurant des Familles below) were criminally overcooked and flavors buried in seasoning and spices.

The corn and rice sides were cop outs.
The sad slice of bread under the ceramic crab shell dish is probably not to be eaten but rather to keep the dish from slipping off the plate?