Our first day there, we found a small pub in Malmo Sweden near our hotel that was highly rated on Yelp<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s called\u00a0Restaurang Tv\u00e5 Kr\u00f6gare<\/a>.\u00a0 We both ordered the veal meatballs with whisky cream sauce, pickled cucumbers, lingonberries<\/a>, and mashed potatoes.<\/p>\n The meatballs and sauce were excellent.\u00a0 It didn’t look like a lot of food there on the plate, but it was quite filling.\u00a0 The mashed potatoes were just like American mashed potatoes.<\/p>\n The lingonberries<\/a>\u00a0were new to us.\u00a0 Turns out that they showed up a lot while we were in Sweden.\u00a0 They are naturally a little tart, so some places made sure to sweeten them up.\u00a0 While other places left them a bit tart.\u00a0\u00a0Restaurang Tv\u00e5 Kr\u00f6gare left them a little too tart for my tastes.<\/p>\n That evening, we attended a state dinner with the Mayor of Malmo and his wife along with the rest of the conference speakers.\u00a0 It was a very fancy dinner held in\u00a0Malmo\u2019s Old City Hall<\/a>\u00a0building.\u00a0 The first course was Jerusalem artichoke<\/a>\u00a0soup with apple and bacon.<\/p>\n We had never heard of Jerusalem Artichoke, but they are not from Jerusalem and they are not artichokes.\u00a0 Worst name ever.\u00a0 It is actually a root vegetable<\/a> in the sunflower family.\u00a0 The Swedes and Danes are very fond of their root vegetables!\u00a0 Root vegetables were just about always a part of each meal.<\/p>\n Anyways, the soup was quite good.<\/p>\n The main course was filet of veal (or veal steak) with pepper sauce and root vegetable cake.\u00a0 Did I mention how they like their root vegetables<\/a> over there?<\/p>\n The filet of veal was melt-in-your-mouth wonderful!\u00a0 The pepper sauce was quite mild.\u00a0 I could barely even taste the pepper at all, which was fine by me.\u00a0 The root vegetable cake was mostly made from potatoes with pieces of carrot and likely other rooty stuff in there.\u00a0 It tasted mostly like a baked potato, but in cake form.<\/p>\n The dessert course was nice and light.\u00a0 It was frozen cherry parfait with chocolate creme.\u00a0 It had no crust, which I really liked.\u00a0 It wasn’t heavy or too sweet.\u00a0 It was the perfect way to finish off this wonderful meal.<\/p>\n I noticed that everything we had eaten so far in Sweden had been pretty mild.\u00a0 Maybe we over do it with our spices here in America?<\/p>\n The hotel we stayed at was located directly across the street from the conference that I was attending and speaking at.\u00a0 Pretty convenient.\u00a0 Also, the hotel had a pretty great breakfast buffet each morning that was included in the room cost.\u00a0 The photo below shows my standard breakfast that I ate each morning.<\/p>\n I had apple juice and orange juice to drink.\u00a0 They also had milk, but I was speaking so I avoided the milk.\u00a0 I had scrambled eggs and bacon and little sausages for my main protein.\u00a0 They also had hard boiled eggs.\u00a0 The bacon was pretty soggy, which is not for everyone.\u00a0 I didn’t have a problem with it, though.\u00a0 I’m not super picky about my bacon.\u00a0 We think they might have baked the bacon rather than pan fried it.\u00a0 The scrambled eggs were also pretty soggy.\u00a0 Almost like they were undercooked.\u00a0 I actually liked it though.\u00a0 They had 3 different yogurts to choose from and several fruit toppings. They also had dry cereals.<\/p>\n And then they had quite a selection of fresh breads, processed meats and cheese.\u00a0 At first, I didn’t know what to do with all the processed meats at the breakfast bar.\u00a0 Then I noticed quite a line of customers spreading butter on their bread and then piling it high with meats and cheeses and tomatoes and raw peppers and such.\u00a0 Like an open faced lunch sandwich in America.\u00a0 So the next day I tried it and it was really nice.\u00a0 Even for breakfast.<\/p>\n So right next to the hard boiled eggs was this strange tube of something or another attached to a handy roller\/dispenser apparatus.\u00a0 Curiosity go the better of me, so I put just a small squirt on my plate and I tasted it.<\/p>\n Eww.<\/p>\n I did not like it.\u00a0 To me it tasted like cat food out of a can.<\/p>\n No, I’ve never actually eaten cat food, but I know what it smells like.\u00a0 And to me, this Kalles paste tastes like that smells.<\/p>\n Turns out it is caviar for the masses.\u00a0 Kalles kaviar<\/a> is very very popular in Sweden.\u00a0 It’s very local.\u00a0 From the west coast of Sweden.\u00a0 It’s mostly salted Atlantic cod fish eggs.\u00a0 It might be an acquired taste.<\/p>\n The lunch fare that was served at the software developer conference was quite good.\u00a0 Pretty impressive as they were catering to nearly 1,200 hungry software geeks!\u00a0 Here is a photo of one day’s lunch.\u00a0 It was so good!\u00a0 The beef was so tender and the brown sauce was so tangy!\u00a0 Yum!<\/p>\n Here was another day’s lunch plate.\u00a0 This was roasted chicken and brown rice.\u00a0 The yellow stuff was a cold tropical fruit salad.\u00a0 I think they were going for a Caribbean lunch that day.\u00a0 Notice that they served us on these disposable wooden plates.\u00a0 These were not just thick heavy duty paper plates.\u00a0 They were actually made out of wood!\u00a0 Crazy.<\/p>\n This photo gives you an idea of the feeding frenzy that took place during lunch at the conference.\u00a0 They set up 3 of 4 of these food tables in the middle of the lobby area and we tried to go through the lines as orderly as possible.\u00a0 This particular day was hamburger day.\u00a0 An American theme.<\/p>\n The burger was very good.\u00a0 Especially for a mass feeding like that.\u00a0 I liked the variety of topping choices.\u00a0 I especially liked the picked red onions.\u00a0 And also the crunchy fried onions.\u00a0 Yum!<\/p>\n One night we roamed around and stumbled across a small restaurant called\u00a0Victors<\/a> on the little square in Malmo.\u00a0 Inside, the restaurant looked a little bit like a diner due to it’s modern and minimalist decor.\u00a0 But the menu looked sort of fancy so we were excited to try some of the food.<\/p>\n I got the Swedish classic,\u00a0Wallenbergare<\/a>.\u00a0 That’s breaded (ground) veal steak with mashed potatoes, peas, lingonberries and melted butter.\u00a0 The Swedes do love their veal!<\/p>\n The ground veal steak was fine.\u00a0 I wasn’t actually prepared for it to be ground meat, like a burger.\u00a0 So I was surprised when I cut into it and it wasn’t actually a steak.\u00a0 But it was fine.\u00a0 These\u00a0lingonberries were sweeter than the ones I had eaten a few days earlier, which was nice.\u00a0 I’m not a big fan of peas, so I only tasted them.\u00a0 They tasted just like I remember peas tasting.\u00a0 \u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Sam got the grilled Swedish sirloin steak with b\u00e9arnaise sauce<\/a>, root vegetables (carrots, we suspect), and french fries.<\/p>\n Now this was a really yummy steak!\u00a0 I don’t know what was in the light brown sauce that was on top of the steak, but it was delicious!\u00a0 We tried both the steak and the fries dipped into the b\u00e9arnaise sauce, but the sauce was so mild that it didn’t really add anything.<\/p>\n I forgot to take a photo, but I got an organic ice cream dessert with a bit of warm fruit topping.\u00a0 The ice cream was really good.\u00a0 Way better than the stuff I’m used to eating.\u00a0 And the portion was just right.\u00a0 Three very small scoops.\u00a0 In America they would have drowned the ice cream with the fruit topping.\u00a0 But this was just the right amount.\u00a0 A very light touch.<\/p>\n On another day we had lunch at an unassuming little restaurant called\u00a0Mrs Brown<\/a>.\u00a0 It was so good!\u00a0 This was pork loin with pickled mushrooms over mashed potatoes.<\/p>\n I’d never heard of pickled mushrooms<\/a> before!\u00a0 And I’m a huge mushroom fan!\u00a0 They were so yummy!\u00a0 Why are we not putting picked mushrooms in all our dishes?!?!?<\/p>\n The pork, the sauce, the mushrooms, the mashed potatoes!\u00a0 Perfection!\u00a0 It looks like a small portion by the photo, but we were too full to get any dessert afterwards!\u00a0 A very satisfying meal, to be sure!<\/p>\n Speaking of dessert.\u00a0 This photo was taken at a small bakery shopfront inside Malmo’s central train station.\u00a0 Pretty nice, huh?\u00a0 We didn’t actually try any of this stuff but it all looks too fancy to eat!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n In Copenhagen<\/a>, we stumbled across a food truck mall<\/a> with lots of great choices of interesting and unique foods to try.\u00a0 The below burger is actually ostrich meat with shredded cheese and smoked bacon<\/a>.\u00a0 It was really good.<\/p>\n This one is pulled duck<\/a>.\u00a0 Oh my!\u00a0 It was really really yummy!\u00a0 It gave me just a hint of Thanksgiving turkey, but it was so much more than that.\u00a0 It wasn’t dry at all and it had some really great spices in there.\u00a0 A week after eating this, my mouth is actually watering right now as I type this, just thinking about it.\u00a0 So good.<\/p>\n There were some great dessert options there, but we went with these beautiful looking cheesecakes<\/a>!<\/p>\n The slices were huge!\u00a0 And they were served in these adorable little disposable wooden boats.<\/p>\n The weird part was eating them with a wooden spork.\u00a0 Have you ever eaten with wooden tableware?\u00a0 It’s not exactly easy.\u00a0 Your tongue and lips actually stick to it.\u00a0 And so does the food.\u00a0 Also, there’s a sense that you might get a splinter.\u00a0 Plus, it tastes like wood!\u00a0 So I’d rather not eat with wooden tableware again if I can help it.<\/p>\n In Copenhagen we found a luxury chocolate shop called Hotel Chocolat<\/a>.\u00a0 It had an immense selection of unique and interesting chocolate goods.\u00a0 It took us a while to find just the right items with so much selection to choose from.\u00a0 But we did it.<\/p>\n In the above photo, you can see lots of different varieties of hand-made chocolate bars, so to speak.\u00a0 This place is serious about their chocolate.\u00a0 They sell 6 different levels of milk chocolate and 10 different levels of dark chocolate!\u00a0 Yes, 10 different dark chocolates!\u00a0 And several of those 10 are actually 100% dark chocolate made from cocoa beans from different parts of the world!<\/p>\n Now I actually like dark chocolate.\u00a0 But I don’t know anything about the percentage of dark chocolate in my common everyday candy bars.\u00a0 So I was intrigued by this shop’s varieties of 100% dark chocolates.\u00a0 I bought one of the many 100% dark chocolates just for the experience.<\/p>\n Oh.<\/p>\n My.<\/p>\n Goodness.<\/p>\n It was terrible.\u00a0 I hated it.\u00a0 I do NOT like 100% dark chocolate.<\/p>\n Now I know.<\/p>\n It turns out that Hotel Chocolat is actually a British company.\u00a0 We thought we were experiencing some local Scandinavian<\/a> chocolate flair.\u00a0 But we weren’t.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n One night we were out late and needed to eat something before heading back to the hotel.\u00a0 One of the squares in Malmo had this little fast food joint sticking out like a sore thumb.\u00a0 Shawarma King Turkish fare.\u00a0 I googled for a website and couldn’t find one.\u00a0 It looks a lot like a middle eastern Burger King, but I think it may be a one-off joint.<\/p>\n The food was amazing, though.\u00a0 It didn’t taste like fast food at all.\u00a0 I ordered the shawarma<\/a> rulle or wrap.\u00a0 There were like 6 sauces to choose from and I didn’t know which was the most normal or standard, so I got the hot one.\u00a0 Wow, it was so spicy and so good!<\/p>\n While we were shopping in a local grocery store, the selection of root vegetables stood out to me since this country loves them so much.\u00a0 So I took a photo of them in the store cooler.\u00a0 You’re welcome!<\/p>\n This photo is pretty random.\u00a0 I just thought the Fanta logo and the bottle shape was unique and interesting.\u00a0 For all I know, this funny bottle is also in America, though.<\/p>\n Notice the price tag near the 1.5 liter Coke.\u00a0 30 Swedish Krona is about $3.50.\u00a0 That’s 2 or 3 times what it would cost in America.\u00a0 Most stuff in Sweden and Denmark seemed pretty expensive compared to 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