I miss square sausage, mutton pies and Irn Bru, although you can get the latter in England (where I now live) quite readily now.

As is typical for all Scottish 'delicacies', all of them are terrible for you...

In Shanghai there's a grocery store near the Portman hotel that has a lot of Western foods, including Pop-Tarts. :D Prices are usually at least 100% over what they are in the states, but sometimes it's soooo worth it. I miss Costco hot dogs and creamy yogurt, a la Yoplait. I don't like the watery white stuff.

Oliver's in Hong Kong is also very well stocked for the displaced Westerner, near Central station in the Prince of Wales building.

Slippahs, no musubis? ;)

When away from Chicago:

Trader Joe's frozen pizza

When away from my childhood home (San Francisco):

Dim Sum

When away from Paris:

Viennoisseries and patisserie from Laduree.

When I first started coming to China 10 years ago, I used to long for grapefruit juice and cranberry juice, but in the ensuing years Ocean Spray finally got its act together. Now, I'm pretty content in China (and don't pay the Portman store's ransome prices very often), but ironically enough, I wish someone would set up a decent, clean, no-MSG, Western-style Chinese restaurant (think PF Chang's).

I would especially welcome the "duck" sauce that's commonplace in East Coast Chinese places. In fact, I recently snagged a bunch of sauce packets that I plan on bringing back to China with me both to use and show to local restauranteers. That stuff makes lots of terrible dishes bearable. Same goes for the mustard sauce.

What would those Chinese have done without you? ^

Don't you mean Popeye's ayam goreng?

IIRC, Fiesta and HEB Central Market in TX may carry all that.

Don't forget the fortune cookies too. They're unheard of in China, can you believe that?

Nope, it's ayam goreng pedas, big difference. :D

Didn't Edward Said write about this?

Marmite - spare the inferior Vegemite, Cumberland sausages and proper bacon. When in Saudi, I missed the last 2 a great deal.

I tend to go native when I travel (I haven't been to China, yet). Why eat something that I can get at home?

I think you forgot to add that you miss chop suey :rolleyes:

Go to an Asian store for Milo. Very easy to find. Wheatabix are a bit tougher but you can find them if you look. Just look for a store with English wares. Cadbury just isnt the same anywhere outside of the UK. I dont know what the difference is but Cadbury from the UK is 100 times better than anything outside.

I am a bit opposite this thread actually. I miss food from the road when I am at home. Diners and cheesesteaks just dont cut it. I miss spicy food, I miss flavorful food, and I miss light food without 2 pounds of gravy.

It has the rather unique feature that it includes vegetable fat as well as milk and cocoa solids. In many places, you're not even allowed to call that mixture 'chocolate'.

That's really what gives it the different flavour.

(That said, they changed something in the flavour when they started using plastic packaging for Dairy Milks. The foil-wrapped bars really were far better...)