Black salt known as Himalayan black salt or kama malak, from north India and Pakistan.
By country and region
ASIA
Hotpot
Porridge served savoury for breakfast with leftover shellfish and meat
AUSTRIA
Black forest cake
Mozart chocolates
Salzburger Knockerl (dessert like floating islands)
Sachertorte
BELGIUM
Beer
Chocolates
CANADA
Maple Syrup
CHINA (also Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore and Chinatowns)
Chinese carpets with raised cut patterns (four classic patterns: flowers, dragons, human crowds and pagodas), hard to find but I bought from a factory in Shanghai which advertised factory tours. Used to be available from department stores in the UK.
Moon cakes (Autumn harvest moon festival). Sugary, solid tubs cut up amongst family or friends, sometimes with egg inside, sold singly and in boxes as gifts
Tea eggs (eggs soaked in tea, sold in streets as snacks from breakfast until midnight)
Snake steak (looks like sliced salmon with central bone. I tried it in Shanghai.)
FINLAND
Venison is cheaper than steak in restaurants.
FRANCE
baguette
Champagne
Crepes (thin pancakes in the north of France)
croissant
Wine in supermarkets at cheap prices
Mushrooms - numerous varieties. Chemists (Americans say pharmacies) have charts and books identifying edible and poisonous mushrooms for French citizens who go foraging
Net curtains with city, people, and countryside and wildlife scenes
Shutters which open into the house, not out (no good for UK windows which open outwards)
GREECE
Ouzo
Retsina
Greek pastries: baklava (flat flaky pastry with honey and pistachio), ketaifa like spring rolls from shredded wheat in honey
INDIA/Singapore restaurants/Amazon
Himalayan Black salt
From Pakistan and other places. An ingredient of an Indian drink, which is sold in India from street stalls in Delhi and Mumbai (formerly called Bombay).
https://www.amazon.sg/s?k=black+salt
INDONESIA
Batik clothes for men, women, children and household fabrics such as bedspreads and tablecloths
ISRAEL/KOSHER/JEWISH (and Israeli shops in London, England; the USA, and Prague, Warsaw, and places with Jewish quarters or Jewish museum shops)
Bagels (24 hour shop in the East End of London)
Flamingo pomelo (red citrus fruit)
Halva (wrapped confectionery sold in Tesco and delicatessens)
Israeli salad
Kosher food (no pork - restaurants milk only (no meat) and meat only (no milk) restaurants
Jewellery and metal household items decorated with six point stars, protective hands, and two figures holding bunches of grapes on a pole across their shoulders
Mezuzas (gatepost protective prayer holders)
ITALY
Asti wine
Coffee - espresso coffee and cappucino
Gelato (ice cream)
Opera and music souvenirs
Parma ham
Pasta in many varieties and colours, flat or round, fine strings or fat strings, and envelopes
Pizza
Prosecco
Ravioli
Spagetti
Spagetti Bolognese from Bologna is the best known. My favourite is spagetti Carbonara, fattening made with cream. And bacon or ham for flavouring as well as protein. If Jewish or Moslem use a smoked chicken, non pork 'ham' or other flavourful meat.
Truffles
Silver jewellery
JAPAN
Dolls with nodding heads
Giant fruit - Fuji apples
Green tea
Kimonos and Yukatas
Kobe beef
Plum wine
Sake (rice wine)
Sushi and Sashimi
Shiitake mushrooms
Tea sets with a jug and five bowls and sometimes a try for tea ceremonies and serving tea to visitors.
KOREA
Kimchee (pickles)
MALAYSIA
Caftan style cover up outfits for ladies in bright colours.
Meat or non pork imitation ham at breakfast buffets in hotels.
MEXICO
Silver jewellery
MOROCCO
Carpets
Pouffes (leather cubed seats or circular like large muffins, buy them stuffed or outside only packed flat)
NETHERLANDS
Cheese - Edam and Gouda
Dutch clogs
Dutch Hats
Dutch tiles and blue Delft wares
NEW ZEALAND
Paua shell on key rings, jewellery and ornaments
PAKISTAN
Black salt
PORTUGAL
Corks and cork products
Madeira wine (from the island of Madeira in the Atlantic)
Mateus Rose
RUSSIA
Nesting dolls
SPAIN
Sangri (red wine carafe with non alcohol added)
Chocolate chestnuts
Jamon Iberico (black pig meat, carved off the bone on a vertical spit after cooking)
Yemas (eggs) de Catalenya (egg based creamy dessert)
Chestnut chocolate (from north west Spain)
SINGAPORE
Banana leaf plates for rice and curry and vegetables
Chicken rice
Fish head curry
Lo Hei for Chinese New Year, multi-coloured with pink salmon and green and orange and red vegables, food tossed high with chopsticks in the centre of a round table for good luck
Snake in wine. (I used to see this in giant carafes in Chinatown. At one point I think it was banned, either for health reasons or because it upset tourists.
SWITZERLAND
Fondue (usually cheese) but also meat or fruit
Raclette
Emmental, medium hard yellow Swiss cheese.
Swiss cheese with holes.
TUNISIA
Cut out clay puzzle jugs
UK
Apple cider is sold in supermarkets.
Baked beans on toast
British breakfast (bacon and eggs, sausage, baked beans)
Charity shops such as Oxfam also produce goods such as diaries.
Cheese: Cheddar Cheese. Stilton cheese.
Chestnuts cooked over a BBQ sold in street from November to December
Chocolates - Cadbury's, Green & Black, York, Kendal Mint Cake, Easter Eggs
Chinese restaurants serve chop suey, lemon chicken, chicken and cashew nuts and dim sum.
Christmas crackers (cannot be taken home on planes because the snap is an explosive but you can buy cracker kits and carry just the parts and add your own small gifts)
Christmas cake (note the use by date)
Crumpets
Cucumber (with seeds)
Fish and chips (the fish being plaice, cod, or sometimes haddock).
Ginger root in syrup
Indian restaurants include dishes such as tandoori chicken, chicken tikka masala, Jalfrezi and balti. Vegetarian restaurants are found in London.
Latkes from B & K
MARMALADE
Thick cut marmalade. (From Supermarkets).
Marks and Spencers worldwide.
Punch, served hot in the cold winter in pubs, with sachets in supermarkets
Porridge oats served sweet, in many varieties in supermarkets
Salt beef from B & K
Scones with jam and clotted cream (Devonshire cream tea)
Stilton cheese
Victoria Sponge cake
Yorkshire pudding
Xmas - biscuit tins, European foods such as stollen bites from german supermarket Lidl.
TOOTHPICKS
Triangular soft wooden toothpicks (brand Wisdom) from chemist shops (pharmacies and drug stores).
Scotland - see S eg Scottish Whisky
Wales - see W eg Welsh cakes
UKRAINE
Decorated Easter Eggs.
USA
Biscuits numerous varieties.
Bourbon (Kentucky)
Gingerbread house kits in supermarkets at Christmas
Grits (for breakfast) in the south.
Hersheys chocolate
Iced Tea (in the south especially in hot summer)
Native American silver jewellery with turquoise stones
Pie a la mode (apple pie with ice cream)
Pumpkins and pumpkin pie and pumpkin soup (Halloween and all year)
T-bone steaks
WALES
Bara brith
Seaweed
Welsh cakes (small, thick pancakes, delicious seved hot with butter)
Welsh gold
Useful Websites
Black Salt
https://www.amazon.sg/s?k=black+salt
French Net Curtains
Girl with cat curtains and other curtains from Etsy
https://www.etsy.com/sg-en/listing/878054657/french-vintage-lace-net-curtains-with
https://www.etsy.com/ca/market/french_net_curtains
Russian Dolls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll
Worldwide Food
https://www.mapsofworld.com/around-the-world/relished-foods.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sushi_and_sashimi_ingredients
Fuji Apple from Giant supermarket in Singapore
https://giant.sg/fuji-apple-china-5053771
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_syrup
We did a taste test comparing Buckwud with an enomy brand and Buckwud was our favourite. I suggest you do your own comparison.
Buckwud canadian maple syrup
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=buckwud+canadian+maple+syrup&
About the Author
Angela Lansbury B A Hons is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books.
About Angela The Speaker & Trainer
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