Wurst Wurst Wurst

German food is the bomb.

Best soft-serve ever!!! The vanilla tasted more like vanilla than sugar for once, and the chocolate was slightly bitter. Perfection. I  ate the first one without taking a photo so that I would have an excuse to buy another one later on.

Everything here tastes better: fresh rye bread is amazing in the mornings, and for breakfast you add cucumbers and ham/salami to make a sandwich. Yum! The cucumbers are juicier and crunchier than in the US, and the apples are, too. The butter and the honey taste fresher as well, but I really have no explanation why, aside from the fact that this is clearly not America. For processed foods, the absence of high fructose corn syrup is probably a major factor: everything tastes better when the flavor is largely derived from the major components, not sugar.

Of course, German traditional food can't be beat, either.

Wurst (sausages) from Nuremberg are some of the best in Germany. I agree completely.

New fad of currywurst! Consists of wurst, tomato sauce, and surprise, curry powder. This restaurant got third place in the national currywurst competition, but I didn't like it as much as some of the ones from off the street. The fries were more of the highlight for me. Or maybe I got the wrong thing. There were hella sauce flavors and the only one I could understand was "Mild Curry." Coincidentally that was also the one in English.

The Germans eat pork legs, too! But the Chinese version tastes better and is more manageable. Look at the size of the thing in the background! My mom and I managed to finish it all off, but I wanted to become vegetarian for a few days after. Too much meat.

 One dish I'm really starting to appreciate here is soup. At home I considered soup a waste of space for what could really be going into your stomach. The soups here taste fresh, as if the herbs and vegetables had just been picked out of the garden, and they're given in thick, heaping portions.

Spinach soup with cream.

Saxon potato soup, which was different from what I expected. It was made completely from non-processed vegetables. No cream, no bacon. Still delicious.

Okay, that's all I have at the moment. Look forward to more in the future. Particularly on dessert. I'm becoming an expert in apple strudel :)