Picky eating

Being a picky eater is hard here in D.C. I can't ever find something that I will really eat, especially if it is new food that is foreign. It always has meat, spices, or too much oil and I always have to try and eat it. I’m not one to venture out, I’m so use to my basic Oklahoma food that I just can’t get use to all this new food.

My first day here is when it started, Katie our organizer took me to a French café, let me tell you I was nervous. When we got there and I started to look at the menu thankfully there was stuff I knew I could eat, I had never been to a French place before so I didn’t know what to expect besides snails. They didn’t have those one the menu, thankfully.

Next was a Thai restaurant and I was beyond not excited. Every time I imagine Thai food, I see like steak and all these different kinds of meats in rice. Iris and I are very similar in our food taste since we both come from the south so we were very cautious going into the place. I finally decided on a rice dish that was just vegetables. I was very nervous about it because it said it was garlic rice, and I have never had that before so it was very different when I tried it. It wasn’t bad but I knew that I probably wouldn’t want it again.

Then our group went out walking to all the monuments and realized we hadn’t eaten so we decided to go to a place called Pho. I’ve never had Japanese food before so this was also different.  We go in and the place is so dark, we finally sit and thankfully they had dr. pepper! I ended up getting pot stickers… I did not like them at all… It tasted like breakfast sausage wrapped in a chewy breading with no flavor. I tried using soy sauce and it helped a little bit but it was still just bad.

Then we moved on to try another Thai place during one of our seminars, I thought I had ordered veggie rice but I had ordered red veggie curry… Let me just say no… it was good at first but it wasn’t something I could keep consistently eating.

Then we went and ate Indian food, and I really liked it. Don’t ask what it was because I have no clue. But I ate everything that was vegetarian and it was really good. It was hard to find something that I wouldn’t eat, besides the fish and chicken.

Then there was the Ethiopian food, I was not a fan. I’m very big on texture and I just couldn’t handle the bread because it was like a sponge.

We finally went to NYC and I got to eat a lot of pizza, and who doesn’t love pizza? We also finally went to a southern kitchen and it was absolutely wonderful. I loved it. We had fried chicken, green beans, mac n cheese, bread pudding, and peach cobbler. It was like being back home.

Skye Dixon, EYA