i don't know exactly which meal it was but i know who i ate it with.
for the last decade or so, i've eaten at a restaurant or ordered takeout (well, just takeout since the pandemic started) every week with a close friend. sometimes it's nice to just hang out with friends and eat the same great meal you've eaten a hundred times before, but my favorite thing is to try something new for the first time and share that feeling with someone.
we've travelled to other countries together, but never to any of the parts of the world where my favorite food comes from (mostly south asia and the middle east). so my favorite meal ever would have to be somewhere here in the uk. it's probably the first time we ate at dishoom, mr falafel or jeita. and this one isn't really a meal per se, but i have very fond memories of going to the london dominique ansel bakery (the cronut guy) and trying all sorts of willy wonka-ass british-inspired pastries and dishes, like welsh rarebit croissants.
not to be confused with the funniest meal i ever had, which is when me and another fighting game player went to the huge mcdonalds near the ceotaku venue in orlando to try their pizza and pasta (it's not very good). for some reason the tvs inside the restaurant were literally playing hypnosis spirals, of all things. i posted about this on twitter, got a reply that just said "sissy hypno mcdonalds", and then a few years later it turns out we're both trans.
