Finnish Food Adventure

Place Eerikin Pippuri at Myyrmanni PRICE lunch set 9.9 eur, with soft drink, and tea/coffee RICE Rice is thin and long, oily. Not salted. KEBAB Kebab meat has some salty taste, but doesn’t have much umami, but definitely the taste of pepper! Now I understand why this restaurant chain is called Eerikin Pippuri / Eerikin(it’s a abbreviation of the street name "Eerikinkatu") Pepper! Kebab meat is thin. Oily but not juicy (maybe because it’s thin) Maybe because of the strong pepper taste, somehow it reminded me of the taste of a beef jerky. On top of the kebab was thick tomato sauce and some creamy sauce.  SALAD Salad: lettuce leaves, 2 slices of tomato, slices of onion, two jalapenos White and reddish-white sauce CONCLUSION The pepper is adding a nice extra taste, but I wished there were a bit more tomato sauce on top to add the umami to otherwise flavor-less meat. But then again usually kebab meat in Finland are flavor-less, and considering that, the added pepper taste is makin...

I eat “riisikebab” (or “kebab riisillä”, kebab with rice) very often. I have a stomach problem and I should be following the FODMAP (Fermentable Oligo-, Di-, Mono- saccharides And Polyols) diet, otherwise my stomach goes crazy. But riisikebab, is almost always a safe choice. No gluten, no onion, no beans, no broccoli, no cabbage, no jalapeno, no garlic, no coconut, no blueberries (although I’m in Finland!), and the list goes on. But riisikebab, is almost always a safe option. There is rice, kebab meat slices (which is made of… beef I guess, in Finland at least*), and a salad consisting of lettuce, and often tomato slices, and onion slices with one or two jalapenos, with some sauce on the kebab and on the salad. I do have to remove the onions and jalapenos, but otherwise it’s mostly safe for me. A riisikebab meal is often affordable, from 8 to 12 euros, but mostly just below 10 euros. And, if you order it as a take out meal, and often I would become full eating two-third of it, so the ...