Category: Friday’s Featured Food

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

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Friday’s Featured Food: Morning Coffee and Scones in Knotts, Newtownards, Northern Ireland

Posted on by Jonny Blair

When life takes you back to the town you were born in after backpacking incessantly to 188 countries around the world, you do often wonder what sparkle your original home has left for you. Straight from my adventures in the Middle East (touring Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan etc.), I headed back with my Mum for a Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Morning Coffee and Scones in Knotts, Newtownards, Northern Ireland[…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: A Night at the Barbecued Lamb Restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea

Posted on by Jonny Blair

When you travel in Korea there is an obvious difference between North Korea and the south. It’s not just the political, commercial and geographical differences that become apparent. Gastronomically they are hugely different. I haven’t yet written about my food experiences in North Korea yet. In fact my last Korean food post was about eating Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: A Night at the Barbecued Lamb Restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea[…]

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Fridays Featured Food: Hotel Breakfast in Sulaymaniyeh, Kurdistan, Iraq

Posted on by Jonny Blair

So you want to know what breakfast in Iraq is like?? Well my only real experience of this came in a hotel in the city of Sulaymaniyeh, which is in Iraqi Kurdistan and I’ve no idea how truly authentic this is, but here goes for you today none the less. Most hotels in the Kurdistan Read more about Fridays Featured Food: Hotel Breakfast in Sulaymaniyeh, Kurdistan, Iraq[…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: Belarussian Porridge in Bobruisk, Belarus

Posted on by Jonny Blair

It’s a long time since I wrote anything about Belarus (even though I once wrote a chapter for a book on my trip there). And as it’s yet to feature on my Friday’s Featured Food series, I thought it was time to recollect that day I tried Belarussian Porridge in the drab city of Bobruisk. Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Belarussian Porridge in Bobruisk, Belarus[…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: Dizi on Christmas Day in Shiraz, Iran

Posted on by Jonny Blair

My “Christmas Dinner” in 2013 came in the form of local Iranian dish Dizi while I was backpacking in Iran. We were almost at the end of our month in Iran when we arrived in the city of Shiraz. We were there to see the city itself, as well as visiting Marvdasht, Persepolis and Naqsh-e Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Dizi on Christmas Day in Shiraz, Iran[…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: Browsing in the Mahaneh Yehuda Market, Jerusalem, Israel

Posted on by Indie Travel

I spent just over 5 days backpacking in Jerusalem, Israel’s quite unique and cultured capital city. This place rocked, and as cheap backpackers we made a nosedive for the Mahaneh Yehuda Market every day on our visit to Jerusalem. It was that good a market, and you can pick up fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Browsing in the Mahaneh Yehuda Market, Jerusalem, Israel[…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: Fish Sandwich in Istanbul, Turkey

Posted on by Jonny Blair

Turkey wasn’t on the initial agenda when we went backpacking in the Middle East and surrounding countries, but we ended up spending a whopping 3 weeks in Turkey in the end, compared with our 10 days in each of Armenia and Azerbaijan! This gave me a chance to sample the delights of Adana, Istanbul, Dogubayazit, Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Fish Sandwich in Istanbul, Turkey[…]

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Friday’s Featured Food: Creamy Cake Dessert in Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq

Posted on by Jonny Blair

This is a short Friday’s Featured Food today and it’s topical as it also comes from Iraq, where you might have heard I’ve been backpacking in since New Year’s Eve. When you wander the markets, bazaars and streets of Iraqi Kurdistan, you will notice how many different types of ready to eat food there are. Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Creamy Cake Dessert in Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq[…]