Man I am not concerned about the quantity but the quality ;P
And I didn't say it in relation to Russia specifically, that would be true for any other country too :D
I am an ex-expat who has lived and worked all over the world on 4 different continents for 15 years (including Russia and Belarus, and my wife is from the Donbas) and even thou…
Man I am not concerned about the quantity but the quality ;P
And I didn't say it in relation to Russia specifically, that would be true for any other country too :D
I am an ex-expat who has lived and worked all over the world on 4 different continents for 15 years (including Russia and Belarus, and my wife is from the Donbas) and even though many people say so about the cuisine of their own country, I TRULY believe that the Italian cuisine and the quality of things like for example cheese and diary products is simply the best...
It's the ONE thing that I have always missed, no matter where I was.
I'm expat and have lived in Russia two decades due to marriage. I've spent a lot of time in Europe, including Italy. Food is the one deprivation here - and also maybe architectural beauty when you are away from the old parts of cities and not in the new (the Kruschevsky bleak concrete apartment buildings from the Soviet era).
There's good sources for ingredients for Asian cooking, and with delivery services so popular now you can get them anywhere in the country. The price is reasonable. The quality of beef is a lot lower than in Europe and especially the U.S., and some meats are hard to find and expensive like mutton.
Quality of vegetables is high and you can find just about anything pretty easily, including unusual vegetable types from Africa and Asia. But it's also season - you can only buy pumpkins in autumn for example.
The selection of cheeses are limited. If you like fancy wines, the western varieties are expensive now since they're shadow imported. Western liquors are the same, and no one bothers trying to get German beers into the country anymore for sale. Good prosciutto can't be found. It's hard to find less popular pastas to make Italian dishes, the unusual ones.
Italian, Japanese, and Thai are the most popular ethnic foods, and bigger cities have lots of good restaurants featuring their cuisine.
Man I am not concerned about the quantity but the quality ;P
And I didn't say it in relation to Russia specifically, that would be true for any other country too :D
I am an ex-expat who has lived and worked all over the world on 4 different continents for 15 years (including Russia and Belarus, and my wife is from the Donbas) and even though many people say so about the cuisine of their own country, I TRULY believe that the Italian cuisine and the quality of things like for example cheese and diary products is simply the best...
It's the ONE thing that I have always missed, no matter where I was.
Can't argue with that. Italians rule when it comes to food.
I'm expat and have lived in Russia two decades due to marriage. I've spent a lot of time in Europe, including Italy. Food is the one deprivation here - and also maybe architectural beauty when you are away from the old parts of cities and not in the new (the Kruschevsky bleak concrete apartment buildings from the Soviet era).
There's good sources for ingredients for Asian cooking, and with delivery services so popular now you can get them anywhere in the country. The price is reasonable. The quality of beef is a lot lower than in Europe and especially the U.S., and some meats are hard to find and expensive like mutton.
Quality of vegetables is high and you can find just about anything pretty easily, including unusual vegetable types from Africa and Asia. But it's also season - you can only buy pumpkins in autumn for example.
The selection of cheeses are limited. If you like fancy wines, the western varieties are expensive now since they're shadow imported. Western liquors are the same, and no one bothers trying to get German beers into the country anymore for sale. Good prosciutto can't be found. It's hard to find less popular pastas to make Italian dishes, the unusual ones.
Italian, Japanese, and Thai are the most popular ethnic foods, and bigger cities have lots of good restaurants featuring their cuisine.