I would agree with the salad thing. It seems like so much of the Chinese cuisine is fried or super salty. Maybe that's just me. But I miss black-eyed peas with rice, collard greens, pulled pork, scalloped potatoes, grilled hamburgers, frogmore stew, crawfish, authentic southern bbq, cajun gumbo, mashed potatoes, buttermilk biscuits, pecan pie, yams, oysters, rice and okra, smokehouse sausage, sweet tea, broiled catfish, butter beans, cornbread and boiled peanuts among other things.  Mmmmmmmmmmmmm Mmmm! 

Crystal said:

I was so surprised when on the plane to Israel (two years ago) my neighbor asked for tomato juice.

However, two weeks ago on my flight to Beijing I ordered it myself 

 

ewwwwwwwwwwww 

The last time I was in Shanghai I would've killed for falafel. Or a good kabob.

Although when my parents and I went to Brazil for vacation, we all ended up really missing congee. They had sneaked some pickled radishes in their suitcase. It was funny.

And tomato juice is the bomb man.

I miss basic ingredients. You know, when you want to cook a Tiramisu but realise there is no mascarpone, no mozzarella for the lasagna !

You can find subsitutes but it'snever going to match teh original.To begin with, ovens and pastry tools are not very common, so even making a cake is hard !

Also, when you're french, any country with the expection of italy is a disapointement when it comes to pastry and desserts.