Precious things.

Friends and family who live all over the world provide us with precious things: Chocolates from Belgium, brownies, cookies and popcorn from the U.S., sausages from the Netherlands,…

Of course you can buy a lot of things in Germany that are supposed to be “original american” or “original dutch” for example, but they are not. That’s obvious. These things are made for German people and German taste is different to American, Dutch or Chinese taste.

A friend from Malaysia lived in Germany for a few weeks. He took us to a Asian take away restaurant, the owner actually came from his hometown. Co-incident. The food they sold was –like always- different from the origin taste, the food was prepared for European people. But the night he took us to this take away place, he ordered dishes that are typical for the area he grew up and the food was prepared in the original way (these dishes aren’t mentioned on the menu at all). We sat at a very small table with the stuff, as it is a take away restaurant there were no tables for guests. We drank tea and ate all evening and enjoyed the spontanious atmosphere. A precious moment and a wonderful memory.