Iceland Foods: What to Try & What to Skip

lamb

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: pork

Chicken is leaner and more affordable.

skyr

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: plain yogurt

Greek yogurt offers similar texture and taste.

herring

🥗Healthier: sardines

💰Cheaper: canned tuna

Sardines provide omega-3s at a lower cost.

Visit a restaurant known for Lango scenes (mini lobsters) in Iceland.

Go to a tomato restaurant called Freedom, which has nine greenhouses full of tomatoes.

Enjoy lunch inside one of the greenhouses.

Take one red tomato to cook for the next day, placing it in a pot with water and covering it.

Try a traditional fish stew that is potato heavy and has fish in it.

Taste a lamb soup that is well-seasoned and similar to beef and vegetable soup.

Try an Icelandic hot dog with raw onions, crunchy onions, tomato sauce (apple-based ketchup), and mustard, referred to as fully loaded.

Visit a fish and chip shop near the ocean and try the fish and chips, noting that it's crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.

Taste two Icelandic drinks: appleson (orange soda) and malt extract (non-alcoholic beer), and mix them together to create a Christmas drink.

Try licorice candies available in Iceland, specifically a chocolate-covered licorice candy called thrift store.

Taste a lamb burger with Brie, cranberry chutney, and mint mayo from a food truck in the town of Sadis Fjord.

Try a licorice candy called jupar, which has chocolate and a licorice flavor, and describe its taste.

Sample dried fish from a flea market, noting a previous experience with dried fish in South Korea.

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