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Food and Drink: Currywurst & Pommes
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  • Malaysian trying german sausage - Berlin
    Malaysian trying german
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    by chancay
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    At every second corner in Berlin you can find these little stands where you can buy a typical german dish, a typical Berlin dish, the Currywurst & Pommes. It is a fried sausage with a tomatoe curry sauce and french fries with it. It is a must do to try one when in the city.

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    Food and Drink: Don't be Surprised by Breakfast
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  • This is more for the average American or British traveler to Berlin gleaned from a number of friends who have visited. At breakfast, after a night of intense activity, they were looking forward to a large breakfast and were surprised by the buffet that was offered at the hostel they were staying at. It consisted of sliced meats and cheeses, bread, hard rolls, mueslix, juices and jams, milk and tea. They were appalled though I thought it was quite generous.

    "Where are the scrambled eggs and sausages, the fried potatoes and biscuits?!" they exclaimed outraged, causing heads to turn in mild curiousity.

    "In downtown Anytown, USA? I don't know." I replied with a smile.

    Most breakfast here consists of rolls or bread, maybe some cheese and sliced tomatoes. Something on the lighter side along with tea. Sure you can go places like a nice Irish Pub, Oscar Wilde's Bar, for example, and have a hearty breakfast of the heavy, greasy variety, but in general for Berliners (lol) its light.

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    Food and Drink: Paulaner beer
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    When you are in Berlin, you don't drink wine, you drink beer. That's my modest opinion.

    In the Netherlands it would be quite strange when someone, especially a girl, would offer half a liter of beer, but in Germany (and Belgium too) that's just fine!

    The best beer according to me is Paulaner. It is a white beer whitch you can compare a little bit with Hoegaarden or Wieckse Witte.

    You've also got beer with sirup and that seems to be a Berlin speciality, but I thought it was very disgusting! It was green or pink and I don't think beer is supposed to be green.

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    Food and Drink: Berlin International Beer Festival
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    The Internationales Berliner Bierfestival is a blast of a festival held near the Alexanderplatz. I counted 3 separate major stages where bands were playing, and the booths of beer vendors went on for blocks.

    The beers were from everywhere, with Bavarian and Hessen companies having the strongest showing. But there were also (very good) beers from Kenya, Namibia, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, and elsewhere in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Central America.

    Check their website for future dates.

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    Food and Drink: Berliner Weisse
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  • One very particular bier in Berlin is the Berliner Weisse. It's made by mixing either a green (woodruff) or red (raspberry) syrup with an effervescent and very sour locally-produced wheat beer. It's low in alcohol and refreshing in summer. I like Shultheiss' version plain. It's a very tart taste sensation, similar to a lambique in Belgium. You will get condescending stares if you order it this way, but if you enjoy tart things, give it a try.

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    Food and Drink: Happy hour
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  • HAPPY  HOUR  ADVERTISEMENT - Berlin
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    Happy hour that is an hour or rather a few hours where some drinks are sold at discount prices is not exclusively Berlin local custom.

    In Berlin many restaurants and most bars/pubs at least in artistic district of Kreuzberg offered Happy Hour which lasted usually from say 7.00 pm to 9 or even 11 pm. In some bars Happy Hour was exclusively from Sunday to Thurday and for local/German drinks/beer exclusively.
    In some restaurants there were discounts for some meals in the afternoon.

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    Food and Drink: Local beer labels :-)
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  • Some local inexepensive beers had quite funny labels and names lake this one bottle on my picture: "Kyritzer Mord und Totschlag". It was dunkel beer brewed by Brauerei Dessow (Oettinger).
    It was reddish black, mild and rather sweet (chocolate flavour) beer.

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    Food and Drink: Drink a 'Berliner Weisse' in...
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  • Drink a 'Berliner Weisse' in Summer! Berliner weisse is known as the champagne of beers. The Berliner Weisse style has a pronounced sour taste, and is very pale, effervescent, and lightly hopped. The acidic characteristic is central to Berliner Weisse. Modern versions are less sour, with no esters. Berliners often add to their weisse a dose of sweetened raspberry syrup (which turns it red) or woodruff syrup (which turns it green) to balance the acidity. Weisse is often considered a summer drink.

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    Food and Drink: Rotkäppchen sekt
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  • No house party is complete without a bottle of bubbly Rotkäppchen sekt. At the entrances to clubs you will find emty bottles of this stuff and seeing a stack of Rotkäppchen bottles together strikes warm feelings in your heart. (Rotkäppchen = little red riding hood) Since France for some reason is the only place with the right to make champagne because of weird copyright laws, Germany makes the fizzy sekt which is basically the same thing except better. ;) It is also known as a really big East German product, so that makes it even better going down!

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    Food and Drink: Food carts
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  • Walking around Berlin's central districts I met a few times street vendors equiped with movable food carts. They were usually built on the base of a bicycle and equiped with small grill.

    The vendors sold usually hot German sausages (rostbratwurst), pretzels (brezel) and other snacks.

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