6/1: Pies and Watermelon Juice at Borough Market

When thinking about the best food that I have eaten on the trip, the markets that we have visited have been good, but not my favorites. In fact, besides Spittlefields, both Borough Market and Cucumber Alley have been, overall, pretty disappointing. At Spittlefields, there was a huge variety of both food to eat and stands to shop at, and each place seemed to sell unique foods and items. Borough Market, which was a much more aesthetically pleasing place than Spittlefields, only sold food and most of the fresh fruits, vegetables, and meat would have required storage in a refrigerator, a luxury that we don’t have at the Royal National. The steak and ale pie that I got from a stand was good, but it was nothing compared to the meat pie that I had at a pub a few days ago and the watermelon juice that I had was nothing more than literal watermelon juice. That is not a bad thing, however, because the watermelon juice was very good, but it left me craving more and it was extremely too expensive for what it was (it was five pounds for a glass that I finished in around 30 seconds.) After eating at Borough Market, there was not much else to do either. A few people in our group went to play mini golf at an arcade near the square, but I decided I would rather spend those pounds to see a show on another night and headed back to the hotel. At Cucumber Alley, another market that Alyssa and I visited a few nights before, I ate Butter Chicken from a restaurant inside, and it was very bland. I was expecting more flavor from the food, and it also left me a disappointed. Compared to the awesome fried chicken Bao Buns and Boba Tea that I got at Spittlefields, both Borough Market and Cucumber Alley simply left me wanting more. Maybe I was just spoiled by going to Spittlefields so early in the trip and having such a great experience there. I will definitely be going back to Spittlefields to continue browsing the shops and to try some more of the unique foods that were there.