Swedish Cafes

Swedish food is really quite pricey here, and I didn't want to break the momentum of preparing my own meals. Hence I actually hardly ever eat out. If I counted the number of times, it might just take two hands to count them (maybe three, at most).

I met up with Sanna (my Swedish friend) earlier last week at Vette Katten. It's quite a traditional Swedish cafe, and its customers are mainly retirees/older women come here for fika.

Sanna got me a princess cake as a belated birthday cake. Sweden has three main pastries - cinnamon buns, semlars (almond cream bun), and princess cakes. In my opinion, this is the best of the three :). So I'm really glad that Sanna introduced me to it, even though I've already been here for four months :P.

It's a cream cake, with a raspberry base, and wrapped with a marzipan cum sugar layer. It doesn't have the strong marzipan taste though, which is good.

We just sat in the cafe and talked and ate. From Sanna's childhood home, to my trips, and what she plans to do in the years to come. It's interesting how she keeps her options open for the future - job, family, where to go/live etc, as compared to how I already perceive what I'm going to be doing.

Also, I need to take more photos WITH Sanna. Don't seem to have much of a habit to take photos with people heh.