Photo Friday: Eating my way through Greece

If you're ever in an area of Greece where people don't really speak English, there's only one word that you really need to know.

That word looks like this: σουβλάκι, and it's pronounced souvlaki.

(Can you tell that I'm totally just using writing about Greece as a reason to type wonderful looking Greek letters?)



Seriously though, souvlaki is awesome. It's pita bread, kebab meat, a bunch of greens and tomatoes, yoghurt, and fries.

French fries. In pita bread. That, to me, is the definition of heaven.

And that's Greek fast food, people.

I can't even remember the number of times I must have had souvlaki while I was in Greece - but they're sold everywhere, the Grecian equivalent of British chip shops.

Speaking of Grecian fast food, they also do a wonderful grilled corn-on-the-cob.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="700"] Stuffin' my face with it.[/caption]

Fast food aside, it's actually spectacular how good food in Greece is - I'm surprised it isn't all that popular anywhere outside of Greece!

Being very typically Mediterranean, there is a lot of seafood on the menu here. Grilled fish, mussel risotto, and delicious Greek salads with stuffed olives and feta cheese with olive oil drizzled over the top.

I must have put on at least three kilos in Greece alone, but every gram of that completely worth it.











Unless, of course, you decide to go completely carnivore for a day and have three pieces of pork loin - with fries on the side, of course, except that in Greece they're called 'fried potatoes'.





This is ouzo.



Ouzo is Greece's national alcohol, clear as water and said to pack a hell of a punch. I can't vouch for it, because I didn't try it - but even sniffing a bit of it sure smells lethal!

A traditional Greek meal involves being presented with a selection of sides that you can pick.



There are a lot of sides - and every one of them looking so good, it just makes you wish you could eat all of it!



Greek salads are pretty much everywhere - peppers, olives, tomatoes, cucumbers and feta cheese. The yellow stuff is fava bean paste, which was surprisingly delicious - we had that together with pretty much everything else on our plate! There was also tzatziki, a yoghurt and cucumber dip. Delish!

It just wouldn't be Greece without some to-die-for calamari.



Fried kasseri cheese, or saganaki. I only wish I'd had more of this!



Oh, and there was even a free dessert that went with the meal. (I love Greek food.)



Being typically Singaporean, there was a day that we spent a long time searching for a very very particular restaurant on a hill in Thessaloniki. And I'm rather glad that we did - good food is always worth looking for!



[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="700"] A rice-like pasta, sausages, and fried chicken nuggets. The chicken nuggets were amazing.[/caption]







[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="700"] More free ice-cream![/caption]

There's a really nice little restaurant in Fira in Santorini which has the best rice ever. Everything else is pretty darn good, but the rice really stood out - so much so that we even wound up ordering a second portion of rice alone!



[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="700"] Fried vegetable balls with basil and mint. These were so, so good.[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="700"] See that little bit of rice there beside the lasagne? That was mouth-wateringly delicious rice.[/caption]



So while people go to Greece for the sights, perhaps it's about time that people started going to Greece for the food too.