London Calling: Borough Market

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I arrived in London yesterday at 7am. I was told that Saturdays were the best day to visit Borough Market, so after checking into our hotel, we took the Tube to get there. Borough Market is full of artisanal foods. Vendors were selling their homemade products such as cheese, breads, and cured meats.
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A bread shop called Bread Ahead was promoting that they had the best donuts in the Country. It would be our first donut in the UK. They offered two flavors which were vanilla and orange cardamom. I had to try the orange cardamom. It was a nice airy donut filled with delicious scented cream.
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Another stall called Roast was selling sandwiches with their freshly roasted meats. We were watching them carve meats and put together sandwiches and they looked so good. My friend and I decided to share the pork belly, crackling and applesauce sandwich. The pork was tender and flavorful and was well complimented with the applesauce. Some parts of the crackling were really crisp, but other parts were a bit too hard. I enjoyed it well enough.
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I was looking forward to some fresh summer farmer’s market fruits. We tasted some really good cherries and decided to buy some fruit to take back to the hotel. We settled on the three red fruit- cherries, strawberries, and raspberries from Chegworth Farms.
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It was raining and I felt somewhere between Pike’s Place in Seattle and the Ferry Building in San Francisco. For a first stop, Borough Market was a good one.

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