Sweden’s best shrimp sandwich?

Tried what by some is said to be the best shrimp sandwich or räkmacka in Sweden. The sandwich can be had at the Heaven 23 restaurant in Gothia Towers- a hotel in Sweden’s second largest city, Gothenburg. The place is, as the name implies, situated at the 23rd floor and comes with a nice view of the city.

So how was the sandwich you ask. Well, it is a nice räkmacka. Quite simple with fresh shrimp, boiled eggs, mayo and vegetables on a caraway flavoured untoasted piece of bread. Garnished with a fresh dill-sprig and a lemon wedge. It’s fresh and tasty and, additionally, it lacks that ‘omph’, but I’m not sure it has to be that spectacular. A räkmacka is what it is, mainly about the seafood itself, and Heaven 23 does it well.

Inflight wifi

Greetings from 10 000 meters. Ideally located between three loud teens and a family with a crying infant.

Ascension Day

In Sweden we’re having an extended weekend the same week as ascension day. We opted to leave Stockholm and visit Sandra’s parents in Western Sweden. We begun with a really nice domestic flight with SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) Wednesday evening. Got the front row with nice leg room and also free hot beverages, something that SAS recently started with. We landed in Gothenburg and S’ parents picked us up and drove us to Borås where they live.

Thursday we had a Lebanese style bbq at their place, Friday we visited relatives in Varberg, a seaside town with nice beaches and an unobstruckted ocean view.

Today we made a visit to some kind of spring market in the Borås city center and in a few hours we’re bbqing burgers. Tomorrow we’re flying back home, but not before trying the legendary Kingsize Deluxe, the Gothia Towers Hotel’s famous giant shrimp sandwich in their 23rd floor restaurant Heaven 23. Good stuff!

Flippin’ Burgers

As you might have noticed from earlier posts I am a huge lover of burgers, and happily for me a new burger joint opened up a few weeks ago here in Stockholm. The place is called Flippin’ Burgers and is runned by a guy that travelled the US for a few months in search of the perfect burger. He brought his impressions with him back home and then turned them into the place which I visited yesterday.

Flippin’ Burgers is, because it just opened, incredibly busy, we had to wait 1h 25 mins for a table for five and we arrived at 17.30 (5.30 pm). Finally seated however we got our orders picked up quite fast and the food also came quite quickly. I tried the Flippin Burger, a burger consisting of two juicy patties between an incredibly fluffy, light bread. The burger was really good, meaty, juicy and with a nice crust on the outside. I also tried their milkshake which was really good. Finally, the fries wasn’t anything special but not bad either. I will definitely go back, but probably in a few months or so when it all have calmed down a bit. Prices btw are okay, I payed roughly 200 sek (~$30) for burger, fries and a beer.

Spring in Sweden

Finally there’s somewhat decent weather over here. Celebrated by lighting up the old grill at my mother’s place making burgers, chips and onion rings, all homemade, of course.

These coming weeks are quite nice, next week we switch to ‘summer schedule’ at work which means one hour shorter days with maintained pay, and we have a public holiday meaning Thursday and Friday is off. We’re going to Sandra’s parents in western Sweden for a few days of semi-vacation where the plan is to visit the seaside town of Varberg and to have a legendary shrimp sandwich at Heaven 23 at the Gothia Towers hotel in Gothenburg.

Then it is my birthday which I’m sure will feature some drinking and eating, and then, we’re off to Singapore and Indonesia! Good stuff!

Happy Easter!

Not much to tell, just wanted to say Happy Easter or Glad Påsk as we say in Sweden! It has been a lot of eating, drinking and relaxing this far. Very nice indeed.

Bintan Ferry booked!

Booked our transfers to Bintan from Singapore yesterday. We’re departing in style in ‘Emerald Class’ which entitles us to lounge usage, visa onboard the ship, free drinks etc which surprisingly was priced a mere 15 bucks each extra in comparisson to economy transfers. However, we’re returning to Singapore in economy since we’re still cheap Swedes after all. All in all it came down to roughly $150 return for us both. Only 9 more weeks!