Local Dishes
Bremen
Curried chicken (Curry-Huhn), pan-fried fish (Pannfisch), kale with pinkel sausage (Grünkohl mit Pinkel)
Hamburg
Eel soup (Aalsuppe), Sailor’s Hash (Labskaus), Vierländer duck (Vierländer Ente), sole à la Finkenwerder (Scholle Finkenwerder Art)
Hanover
Hanoverian meat platter (Hannoversche Schlachterplatte), Lower Saxony wedding soup (Niedersächsische Hochzeitssuppe), smoked eel from Steinhuder Lake (Räucheraal vom Steinhuder Meer)
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