Sometimes you don't have to go so far to experience the world. Last Sunday we went to Veddesta in Järfälla outside Stockholm to look at a sofa bed and a chest of drawers. At the same time, we took the opportunity to visit the grocery store Matvärlden, which is also located here. We bought some small things, but above all we walked around and looked. Wow! It was like travelling around the world!
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Food from around the world
As soon as you enter the store, you can start your journey around the world. The shelves of dry goods and tinned food are divided into different parts of the world and in just a few seconds you can travel from Russia to the Middle East and on to Pakistan. Or why not visit the Balkans or perhaps Africa? It doesn't matter if you're looking for Arabic tea or Polish tinned fish - chances are you'll find it here!
Lamb's tongue and calf's feet
There is a large meat counter and it really feels like being abroad: large cuts of meat that I can't name, long lines of lamb and plenty of halal slaughtered meat. Or can it be a lamb's head, a pair of calves' feet or perhaps a few hectos of lamb's testicles?
Dried fruits and pastries
The large manned counter with dried fruits, nuts and seeds is impressive. There's also a manual counter with something like burek, and outside the shop there are long rows of baked goods like baklava, tulumba and zolbia (well, that's what the sign said anyway...).
Swedish food on Food World?
Yes, we found the beetroot salad we were looking for and we saw both Kalle's caviar and gravlax. You can simply find food from all over the world in this shop! According to the website, there is a store here in Veddesta and one in Tensta. Have you ever been here? For us, it was an unexpectedly exotic Sunday ...
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Aila says:
Our favourite supermarket... I go there even though it's on the other side of town...
01 August 2017 - 7:06
Helena says:
How nice that you found this shop and usually go there! 🙂
01 August 2017 - 15:30
None says:
Yeah, yeah, yeah! I was crazy in that store. Did you notice how different it smells when you walk past the Africa section? Completely new scents. I missed the Vietnam shelf, it feels like the store doesn't have Southeast Asia as a priority, but so what?
01 August 2017 - 7:10
Helena says:
Yes, I think it was actually at the Africa shelf that we pointed out the scents! 🙂 There are certainly some geographical areas missing, we didn't really have time to discover it ... were overwhelmed 😉.
01 August 2017 - 15:31
Britt-Marie Lundgren says:
Yes, it's cool to browse all the food shelves with things we could only dream of buying here at home a few years ago. Here we have no "World Food" but instead lots of small shops with delicacies. However, I am happy to give up many of the cuts in the meat and charcuterie counter......
01 August 2017 - 7:10
Helena says:
Surely there has been an incredible development when it comes to the range!!!! And well, there were no cuts of meat that had to come home with us either ... 😉.
01 August 2017 - 15:56
Mr Steve says:
What a wonderful experience to shop in that store.
01 August 2017 - 8:34
Helena says:
Like an exotic trip abroad 🙂
01 August 2017 - 15:56
Christine - 29°. says:
What a fun shop. I had no idea it existed. From time to time I look into the Asian shops at Hötorget, but now I will probably have to extend those visits by going a little further sometimes. 🙂
01 August 2017 - 8:41
Helena says:
We didn't know about this shop before either. Fun to run around! 🙂
01 August 2017 - 16:35
Goatfish says:
Always fun with food from around the world! I've been browsing in Asian shops from time to time.
Summer hugs 😀
01 August 2017 - 11:16
Helena says:
I have also looked in such shops once, but never before seen one as huge as this one 😉.
01 August 2017 - 16:36
Imelda says:
But Wow what a store, would have liked to spend a good while in there! A favourite among the ajvar that I buy here in Halmstad is one that is made with both peppers & eggplant by the brand Mama's ajvar, super good!
01 August 2017 - 11:26
Helena says:
That sounds good! Let's see if I see it next time 🙂
01 August 2017 - 16:37
Snows says:
Multiculturalism affects us more than we realise. Exciting!
01 August 2017 - 11:49
Helena says:
That's true, and often you don't have to go that far, as I said 🙂 .
01 August 2017 - 16:37
Solan says:
Lots of things you don't know. Will visit Food World, what a great tip. Tourist at home, never boring ....
01 August 2017 - 12:02
Helena says:
Definitely a tip! A really fun pleasure at home 🙂 .
01 August 2017 - 16:38
Ditte says:
What a fun visit! And always a special feeling to enter these food stores and combine it with travelling around the world in your mind. I have visited "Matvärlden" in Tensta and it was really an experience. But most of the time I'm not in those neighbourhoods, so it's the Chinese shop at Hötorget or this one on Ringvägen, both of which sell a lot of Asian goods and those are the ones I use the most.
However, a new visit to Matvärlden in Tensta is attractive if only for the experience.
01 August 2017 - 12:08
Helena says:
Glad you found your way to Food World! Yes, if you want to find Asian shops, there are some. We were not looking for anything special really, just fun to look around 😉.
01 August 2017 - 21:13
Ruth in Virginia says:
Yes, the different immigrants/refugees have really changed the
food habits here too. We have many Pakistanis and Yemenis,
and it has given us a lot of small "mum-pop" business. Vietnam
has a large area closer to Washington. - Agree with
the meat counter, such as chicken feet for example 🙂.
01 August 2017 - 12:10
Helena says:
Immigration has certainly affected eating habits! And the eating habits of the newcomers depend, of course, on the immigrants who are coming ... There are some Vietnamese restaurants here, but I don't know how much Vietnamese you can find in the supermarkets here ...
01 August 2017 - 21:15
Lena - good for the soul says:
So, I've finally caught up on my reading in here.
What a cool deal. I can imagine that it was also a bit difficult to understand what everything was.
Great fun to read your Helena's travel story! What lovely accommodation on Mälarön. It has certainly been a lot of work. And certainly it is difficult to be apart when you are not used to it! Cozy to party a little when Peter then came home 🙂 That survey on Swedes' holiday habits was a bit fun and interesting. I can not directly say that I neither now nor in "my previous life" changed so much on holiday. Possibly an extra glass of wine.
And finally, my contribution to Happy Friday has to be that I finally went on holiday!
Hug Lena
01 August 2017 - 13:26
Helena says:
Oh, now you have read properly, I see 🙂 And what a wonderful holiday! Njuuut! 🙂
01 August 2017 - 21:16
Alexandra says:
Funny shop, I have to go there sometime! But we actually have an intercultural / oriental food store where I live and there are two more Asian food stores here in Märsta that are good with a lot of things... but they are probably far from as big as the one you visited seems to be! 😀
01 August 2017 - 13:48
Helena says:
It is a fun shop so a visit is recommended if you are in the neighbourhood 🙂 They are great!
01 August 2017 - 21:16
Arne Lindh says:
At least you are not bored, even though you are at home. See you soon.
01 August 2017 - 20:07
Helena says:
Haha, no, something always happens 😉 Looking forward to seeing you!
01 August 2017 - 21:17
Matts Torebring says:
It would have been nice to be there, at least among fruit and nuts.
I very rarely shop in Sweden. We have 200 metres to ICA Supermarket. The last time I was there was in 1992 (Birgitta goes there probably once a week) Why don't I go there? Well, I can't bear to see "Matmonopolet ICA" and all the ICA Basic goods. I don't even put an ICA plug in the electrical cabinet. It should be Ifö, so I know that it is good goods.
01 August 2017 - 20:18
Helena says:
Yes, I know that you are careful with brands Matts 😉 I also think it's a bit boring with the shops' own brands in itself, but I still manage to go into the shop 😉.
01 August 2017 - 21:18
BP says:
Dregel, dregel - you have found the Mecca of food, so to speak. Imagine how many new dishes/spices/fruits/vegetables we have brought to Sweden. Little difference compared to 20-30 years ago.
PS. Lamb's tongue is good, and so are lamb steaks. Eaten them in Morocco, but then the husband moved to the neighbouring table - sensitive that;-) DS.
01 August 2017 - 20:31
Helena says:
Yes, the range has increased enormously! I have eaten lamb steaks in Iceland, but it wasn't that good. Don't really know how they prepare it ... but with a nubbe it went down 😉 .
01 August 2017 - 21:19
JoY says:
What a lovely shop you have been to.
Hugs
02 August 2017 - 8:11
Johnny Friskilä says:
I had never actually heard of Veddesta before 😉.
02 August 2017 - 16:52
Travelsis says:
What a great deal! Sounds like many different scents and many different travel memories coming up?
03 August 2017 - 8:31
Emma, sun like sun? says:
Food from different parts of the world is so much fun! Usually, however, you are completely helpless when you see the jars and all the ingredients. But oh what fun it is!!!
At Kista C there is (was?) also a rather large shop with food from all over the world. Yes, it's still there: Kistagrossen. http://www.kistagrossen.com/
Usually there is a "Turkish shop" (sorry if someone takes offence to my term) where there are many immigrants. I mean, just look at my neighbourhood. In Fuengirola there is the Swedish shop, Ewalds, Kardemumma (Finnish bakery) etc.
03 August 2017 - 21:40