10 Dec

After getting the souvenir from Swisslion we got dinner at Migros, which was a small mall with a florist, gift shop, supermarket and café/bakery. Migros also have petrol stations and kiosks. They had different pastas (10-13CHF), pastries, roast pork, chicken, salads, slices of tart (3.50CHF) including rhubarb. A2 had a spinach and ricotta pastry, mum and dad shared ½ a roast chicken (8CHF), creamy pasta with spinach and two types of roast pork. One tasted like ham and looked a bit like char siu; the other was just...

16:00 / Food / Lucerne / Migros / Restaurants / Switzerland / Travel
10 Dec

Later I began looking for a bakery from which to purchase lunch. I settled on Heini: Eine Torten, which had at least four outlets in the small area that we walked around in today. I had trouble choosing between a long rolled pastry with hazelnut filling and an almond croissant so I bought both for 4 something CHF together. I thought eating the sweet things would be more interesting than trying bread loaves that were huge and I didn’t know what they were anyway. I wasn’t about to...

15:53 / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Heini Bakery / Lucerne / Restaurants / Switzerland / Travel
10 Dec

Near the train station was a chain bakery called Bachmann, which sold macarons (Luxemburgerli brand). We thought we’d try them here to compare to Lauduree ones. I bought 4 macarons; chocolate, praline, raspberry and cinnamon/plum for 3.90CHF. The raspberry one wasn’t nice, the chocolate one was like eating a chocolate truffle. The others were nice. The exchange rate is currently 0.89AUD to 1CHF and the service charge was 4CHF. I think the average food price is 20-30CHF. [gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="2"]...

15:52 / Bachmann Bakery / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Lucerne / Restaurants / Switzerland / Travel
09 Dec

Dinner at the hotel consisted of a salad with light dressing, grilled and lightly battered Parnasius fillet (a type of fish) in a creamy/cheese sauce (though the menu said light lemon dressing) and a piece of apple strudel with hot vanilla sauce. The pastry in the strudel was a bit too thick and it wasn’t hot; there were also raisins in it, so I didn’t finish mine. [caption id="attachment_2228" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Lightly Battered Parnasius Fillet w. Creamy Sauce[/caption]...

15:47 / Food / Hotel Astoria / Lucerne / Restaurants / Switzerland / Travel
09 Dec

Halfway through our bus drive from Germany to Switzerland we stopped at the House of Black Forest Clocks. There were souvenirs, cuckoo clocks, grandfather clocks as well as their famous, and supposedly the original, black forest cake. The owner gave us a free postcard with the cake recipe on the back. The cake had a nice, moist chocolate sponge layer, but I still don’t like glace cherries. [caption id="attachment_2226" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Original Black Forest Cake[/caption]...

15:45 / Black Forest / Dessert/Sweets / Food / German / Germany / House of Black Forest Clocks / Restaurants / Travel
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