Category: Friday’s Featured Food

On Fridays, Don’t Stop Living brings you a varied range of unusual food to try on your travels.

Friday's Featured Food: Spicy Paneer, Naan and Lassi At The Famous Moti Mahal Restaurant in Male, The Maldives

Friday’s Featured Food: Spicy Paneer, Naan and Lassi At The Famous Moti Mahal Restaurant in Male, The Maldives🇲🇻

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I fell in love with the mix of Indian Paneer (mostly the spicy ones) and Indian Lassi (either mango or natural) when backpacking India away in 2016. I had never really eaten paneer nor drank Lassi before then (that I knew of). Since then, I often delved into Lassi and Paneer at any Indian restaurants. Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Spicy Paneer, Naan and Lassi At The Famous Moti Mahal Restaurant in Male, The Maldives🇲🇻[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Maldivian Breakfast At Go Meal Restaurant, Male, The Maldives🇲🇻

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  When backpacking 🎒 in The Maldives, swankaday resorts often serve up textbook global buffets and the streets of Male have a wide range of Indian, Chinese and Italian restaurants. But I just needed to try something local and preferably an interesting fish or seafood dish. I mean The Maldives is world famous for ice Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Maldivian Breakfast At Go Meal Restaurant, Male, The Maldives🇲🇻[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Bajan Fish🐟Balls🍡, Bank’s Beer🍺And Choco-Cherry🍫🍒Freeze At The Tiki Bar, Hastings, Barbados🇧🇧

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While I’m certainly not a food freak, a foodie, a food blogger or a fat bastard, I still run my Friday’s Featured Food series. This series started way back in 2012 when the blog became more specific and tailored. And so, in an attempt to backdate and foodpack my way through 5,000 plus meals from Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Bajan Fish🐟Balls🍡, Bank’s Beer🍺And Choco-Cherry🍫🍒Freeze At The Tiki Bar, Hastings, Barbados🇧🇧[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Beef🥩Pepper🌶️Onion🧅Rolls🥖At Breakfast At Eto'o Restaurant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮

Friday’s Featured Food: Beef🥩Pepper🌶️Onion🧅Rolls🥖At Breakfast At Eto’o Food Restaurant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮

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This edition of Friday’s Featured Food will take us back from Ivory Coast in December 2024 to Cameroon 9 months prior via a visa quest for the Central African Republic. In March 2024 when backpacking in Douala, Cameroon, I asked my guide Mebah Markdonald (of Discover Cameroon Tours) if I could attend a top division Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Beef🥩Pepper🌶️Onion🧅Rolls🥖At Breakfast At Eto’o Food Restaurant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮[…]

Friday's Featured Food: Rabbit 🐇On New Year's Eve At Chez Laetitia in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮

Friday’s Featured Food: Rabbit 🐇On New Year’s Eve At Chez Laetitia in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮

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“Another year over; a new one just begun” – John Lennon. I found myself back in Ivory Coast at the end of 2024, and this is where Marek and I celebrated New Year’s Eve 2024 and New Year’s Day 2025. I had backpacked through Abidjan and Grand Bassam before, back in 2018. On that trip, Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Rabbit 🐇On New Year’s Eve At Chez Laetitia in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮[…]

Friday's Featured Food: Lunch At The New Quays, Portavogie, Northern Ireland (The Most Easterly Pub in Ireland)

Friday’s Featured Food: Seafood Lunch At The New Quays, Portavogie, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️(The Most Easterly Pub in Ireland)

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“Take me back to the town where I was born, because I’m tired of being a stranger and I’m miles from home” – Noel Gallagher. I grew up in North Down, County Down, Northern Ireland. It’s my homeland and I’m a beach boy and a seaside city boy at heart. I spent most of my Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Seafood Lunch At The New Quays, Portavogie, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️(The Most Easterly Pub in Ireland)[…]

Friday's Featured Food: Ravioli Di Boreghine And Wine in Seborga

Friday’s Featured Food: Ravioli Di Borragine And Wine in Seborga💙🩵🤍👑👸

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  After my incredibly inspiring border crossing from Bordighera in Italy to Seborga, I had a hat-trick of days to explore this small country. Seborga on my visit had only two restaurants that were open, so naturally I had to dine in all of them. The two open ones were Trattoria San Bernardo and Restaurante Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Ravioli Di Borragine And Wine in Seborga💙🩵🤍👑👸[…]

Friday's Featured Food: Eating The National Dish Rabbit (Coniglia) In Seborga 💙🩵🤍👑

Friday’s Featured Food: Eating The National Dish Rabbit (Coniglia🐇) In Seborga 💙🩵🤍👑

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When I finally backpacked across the border from Italy into Seborga, I was in for a treat. This small country had been on my tourist list for a long time and May 2024 was finally the time to backpack across the border from Bordighera in Italy and up the mountains into the Principality of Seborga! Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Eating The National Dish Rabbit (Coniglia🐇) In Seborga 💙🩵🤍👑[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Cooked Chicken, Rice and Salad At Tentadora Restaurant, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹

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Despite having taken over 10,000 Food photographs on my travels, I am definitely not a food freak, geek or blogger but I sometimes feel the need to cover some of my meals on Friday’s Featured Food. In São Tome E Principe, I visited Bobo Forro, Trinidade, São Tome (the capital city), Porto Allegre, São Joao Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Cooked Chicken, Rice and Salad At Tentadora Restaurant, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Local Fish, Rice and Vegetable Stew at Papa Figo, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹

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After arriving into Sao Tome from Gabon, and getting a stamp on arrival (no visa needed for me at the time), I was backpacking here in São Tome E Principe. My first port of call was my excellent “Writer’s Lair” at Casa De Ferias. I rested here in this lovely abode whilst making onward plans. Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Local Fish, Rice and Vegetable Stew at Papa Figo, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹[…]