One of the most unique food experiences of Germany is surely the Currywurst. Invented in Berlin in 1949, it turned into the capital's culinary main attraction. What else to do in -20°C in early January than to eat a Currywurst on the street?

Berlin was extremely cold. While we froze our faces off, food was still needed to survive. Could it be that the temperatures made us even hungrier? 

On our last day visiting the city, we chose the iconic Konnopke's Imbiß. The stand is situated below an underground line, right alongside a big street crossing. However, Konnopke's is getting crowded, even in the winter. It's long tradition and international fame through tv shows such as Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" made it the place it is today. 

You can buy everything, from food (what normal people go there for, you would think?) to souvenirs. Those reach from t-shirts to coffee cups. If you're a tourist and here already, then why not impress your distant Chinese cousin? Anyway, we simply went for the most traditional of all dishes available for purchase at Konnopke's: Currywurst and Pommes. 

The Currywurst sauce is created from a special family recipe and you can buy the whole product in every imaginable way. Spicy, not spicy at all, with skin or without and so on. Despite the freezing cold, the taste was excellent and it was able to warm us from the inside. The experience itself is a definite recommendation on our part, and if you don't like standing while you eat, there is even a seating area in a tent behind the store, which we found out a little later. 

How to get there by public transport: U2 to station Eberswalder Straße. Walk across the other side of the street and you will have made it.

Hello, it's us. We were wondering if after all this food, we might need more. We ate everything from Bratwurst to traditional Christmas food during the past winter and are looking forward to the next adventures including French crêpes and Czech beer and special icecream stores. Let's take a look back at the previous adventure though and at some of the highlights from December 2015. We are going to post a series of different places and its foods.

Beautiful despite the rain: Erding, Bavaria.

Today's place: Erding, Bavaria

When travelling to Munich during the past winter, we thought why not make a trip to Erding in the meantime? It is a city close by, easily accessible by public transport such as the S-Bahn in about 40 minutes. For Steffen, as a beer enthusiast, it was paradise to see the place where his favourite Erdinger Weißbier was invented.

Bring a map, find one or use the Google version of it, because you can easily walk into the wrong direction from the train station. After finding the right one in the rainy Bavarian city, you are walking straight into the town's centre area, decorated nicely ahead of Christmas. A market with all the usual stands is trailing through some streets, along with beautiful buildings on the sides.

If you go during the evening, we can highly suggest visiting a place called Zeitlos. It is a restaurant in a nice location with the apparent edition of a beer garden in the summer months. Take a look at their website here. We decided to go with a classic and ordered Apfelstrudel, sweet German goodness. It tasted as it looks on the picture below: fantastic! Their menu has tons more to offer, also main courses, so if you plan to see some surroundings of the Munich area, make sure to go say hi there!

Erdinger Weißbier is easily the best in the world and can be found in many varations at the place, whatever suits your own taste best. It is as timeless as the name of the restaurant. Many locals are coming here, you won't see a bunch of tourists. So train your Bavarian vocabulary beforehand!

In general, the whole town seems very laid back and calm, not too many cars were around at this evening hour, at maybe 7pm. Due to the Christmas market, it remained pretty lively, not crowded. I can't imagine anyone not wanting more after visiting for the first time.

"Zeitlos" above the entry of the restaurant.