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Q: What food product from home can't you live without?
For me, it's marmite...
Vegemite. I've got enough, thank goodness. And it goes great with Uyghir bread.
Western style bacon, sausages and black pudding.
The local imitation styles are vomit inducing.
yeah I don't know what they do wrong with the bacon...they have pigs why can't they make a decent cut of pork that cooks up to nice crispy bacon.
There is nothing I can't live without, I have done.
However, I am leaving China for good in August and I have a shopping list for my local supermarket back home as long as my arm.
Cheese, but I've learned to make mozzarella home. Not easy or cheap, but way better tasting.
Bread, same remark, though it is much cheaper and ingredients are easy to come by.
I also miss the shwarma, the pitta and hummus
DrMonkey:
Gah, I would do unspeakable things to get good, freshly prepared hummus with some Lebanese bread.
davo:
There are places here, where it is possible to get.
ie; I found a shwarma stand in the back streets of Guilin.
and there is a restaurant in Shanghai that serves a great plate of hummus
Parmigiano. I usually carry 6-7 kg from home on every trip, and rationaze it till the next.
My favorite spice mix from home that is good on eggs and in hamburgers.
My favorite Indian Chai mix. It just likie the chai tea in India.
Chicken-fried steak w/ mashed potatoes & cream gravy. 
yep, I'm from the South. (a culturally distinct part of the US for all u darn foreigners out there :-p )
alpha3305:
Your comment is clearly the odd one of the bunch. Haha. The entire meal tastes so good almost sensual, but health wise is probably as bad as an unqualified street vendor. Cultural differences, gotta love it.
diverdude1:
yeah,,,, it can be a mighty tasty meal... funny thing is it is also a really cheapo meal... they served it in my High School because it can be made cheap. Let's face it, they produced cheap food but it was decent all-in-all.
Nutrition wise, thank goodness I grew up b4 the days of counting calories, fat content, etc. I still have the mentality of 'if I like something, I do it'. If u go around worrying so much about the consequences of your actions, it can sure take the joy right out of 'em.
I'm thinking 'unprotected sex' as a prime example ! yeeeee ha ! 
Good old Malaysian coffee beans. Roasted to perfection. Slurp! My supply ran out last months so it's Starbucks Dark Verona until the next trip back home.
Medoc red wine, it's super expensive here. I never found hummus (Lebanese stuff) and good olive tapenade. Sipping wine with hummus on bread in my own garden in the summer evening, that's what I dream to do.
A&W rootbeer. Theu have some fake rootbeer here but it tastes like medicine. Fortunatly i found a place recently. Has.my rootbeer sometimes, corn dogs burritoes! And some cuts of ham!
Cheese, China can't make good cheese it's just not a part of their gastronomy, Chinese cheese taste like plastic. I often buy imported cheese from Switzerland, Italy, France or Germany. China recently banned UK imports, too bad.
Chocolate, chinese chocolate taste funny just like their so called sausage.
