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NORTHERN IRELANDCAPITAL: Belfast ETHNIC INFLUENCES: English and Scottish POPULAR BELFAST RESTAURANTS: Cayenne, Menu by Kevin Thornton, Molly's Yard BREAKFAST: Full Irish Breakfast includes sausage, white and black pudding. SNACKS: Sausage rolls, chips. BREAD: Soda bread. CHEESE: Handmade, farmhouse cheddars. POPULAR DISHES: colcannon, Ulster fry, boxty, soda bread, barmbrack, Irish stew LOCAL DRINKS: Irish tea, Guinness, Irish whiskey, Irish coffee, poitín (poteen). PRODUCE: potatoes, lobster, prawns, oysters, salmon, cockles, winkles, pork, dulse, carrageen and laver (types of seaweed), black pudding, bacon, ham. NEED TO KNOW: Potato blight in the 19th century affected around six million people throughout all Ireland. FESTIVAL FOODS: St Patrick’s Day the Guinness flows freely. UNUSUAL FOODS: dulse, carrageen and laver are types of edible seaweed.
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