{"id":412,"date":"2008-12-01T22:40:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T22:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2016-08-09T20:37:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T20:37:20","slug":"eating-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Eating Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky for us, Belfast was having some sort of international food fair around City Hall last weekend.\u00a0 There was kangaroo meat, French baguettes, German brats, and DUTCH PANCAKES.\u00a0 We also perused Peruvian clothing and watched a hog roast on a spit.<\/p>\n<p>The brats were rather expensive, but they were cooked by real Germans and were almost as good as the ones I had in Berlin.\u00a0 Katherine tried a Hawaiian flavored French baguette which turned out to be pretty good.\u00a0 The star of the party, however, was the DUTCH PANCAKES.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t say how much we spent on these pancakes, but they were almost worth every penny.\u00a0 Imagine 25 small, circular, slightly thick pancakes on a plate covered in powdered sugar and chocolate sauce.\u00a0 This is essentially what they were, but they tasted so much better than that.\u00a0 They were, by far, the best part of Belfast.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-412 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/belfast_food-01.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/belfast_food-01-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-458\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-458'>\n\t\t\t\tMy first Belfast brat\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/belfast_food-02.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/belfast_food-02-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-459\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-459'>\n\t\t\t\tIt was grand\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/belfast_food-03.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/belfast_food-03-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-460\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-460'>\n\t\t\t\tDUTCH PANCAKES\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/belfast_food-04.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/belfast_food-04-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-464\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-464'>\n\t\t\t\tThe festival was held here\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/belfast_food-05.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/belfast_food-05-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-463\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-463'>\n\t\t\t\tI love a bit of kangaroo meat. Or ostrich meat. Or wild boar meat.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky for us, Belfast was having some sort of international food fair around City Hall last weekend.\u00a0 There was kangaroo meat, French baguettes, German brats, and DUTCH PANCAKES.\u00a0 We also perused Peruvian clothing and watched a hog roast on a spit. The brats were rather expensive, but they were cooked by real Germans and were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[92,18,6],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marks_updates","tag-belfast","tag-food","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}