What foods make you feel like royalty when you're eating them?
currently jamming on this toasted bread with butter. someone else woke up to work baker’s hours at walmart to bake this loaf, then i bought it, then toasted it, then added butter. a veritable feast
OP, my adult daughter came to my house one day and I offered her filtered chilled water and fresh baked sourdough with butter - fanciest bread and water ever. Bread to me is magic, I make sourdough only so it’s literally made of flour, water, a little salt and time. How does it get such flavor?
Anything with courses feels so luxurious to me. We don’t eat that way in my house because we (mostly I myself) cook for ourselves and want to sit together to eat. Getting served small plates in succession is so labor intensive and also a nice way to eat. We did this at a small fancy restaurant once - we ordered several things and the waiter served them one at a time, for us to share. Best ever way to eat as a couple or small group.
Expensive chocolate, cheese platters and when I order fish-based meals from Gousto (ordered a creamy linguini with monkfish medalions once and felt like a queen)
Things that take a lot of human skill or effort, in addition to being very flavorful. Like perfectly sauteed scallops with a complex sauce or basically anything with pearled onions. There’s some Indian curries that have blown my mind too. The greater the variety of complimentary flavors experienced with each bite the better
Not so much the food itself, but the entire package made me feel like royalty…
I was visiting Singapore last year for some work-related stuff. My coworkers were busy handling their respective areas, and I was mostly there for some related IT stuff that involved a lot of waiting.
I’ve always liked sushi, so I decided that for once I should try eating it at what seemed like a decent sushi-place not far from the hotel - I had pretty much all day to myself. So I headed down there.
For starters the place itself was amazing; It was small and cozy, with ne guy behind a counter chopping and preparing fish. The wall behind them was covered in knives of all sorts, manufactured by a childhood friend of the chefs. I was up front to the waitress about the fact that I wasn’t really a sushi connoisseur, but I generally liked Maki rolls, Nigiri, and I was looking for a nice and filling lunch. So she recommended this one item in the menu for me that consisted of a little bit of everything.
The lunch ended up being more of a multi-course thing, and while I was eating one part, the chef was already preparing the next part. Sure, it was really good, but the attentiveness of the staff to give me a wonderful lunch added to it as well, explaining along the way what I was eating and what the actual Japanese name was (they were all Japanese, by the way).
It was pricey, but not insanely so. The experience was well worth the cost.
At first I wanted to say sushi, but basically anything I order online, because they’re so expensive. But during those few occasions I really feel like royalty.
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