Jorgen Udvang
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It was too early in the morning. Sursild is indeed pickled herring. It's the salmon (laks) that is smoked ("gravet" in this case, but can also be "røket", which is the more ordinary type). Icelandic is very similar to the language that was spoken in Norway, Denmark and Sweden a thousand years ago. Since then, the Scandinavian languages have been influenced by continental languages, in particular German and French, and by English the last 100 or so years.Some truly amazing photos lately! I don't have time to go through individually, but I must say I am very impressed with all of them.
Jorgen -- it's great to hear that things are going better, and I think that meal will really help! Where does one find sursild and gravlaks in Thailand?? Interesting too, as in icelandic súr means sour (or pickled), not smoked...that's reyktur. They have súrhvalur (pickled whale), and some other súr things that I avoid like the plague.
We mostly get pickled herring from Scandinavian friends visiting, but there are a couple of Danish restaurants that make their own, and one chain of supermarket that sells it as well. With the large international community here, you can get more or less any kind of food, and I doubt that you would find any place in the world with a bigger selection of reasonably priced, high quality restaurants with food from any corner of the world than in Pattaya. It's really a food enthusiast's heaven.