To answer a fellow tweeter’s question, yes, the Beijing IKEA also serves Swedish Meatballs.
Smirk if you will, but during my trip to IKEA for organization boxes and pantry containers, I envisioned a calm day at the IKEA cafeteria. As I left my noisy house undergoing a deep clean after Ayi’s Chinese New Year break, I thought I’d escape to a well lit IKEA cafeteria on a Monday (sans insane weekend traffic), have a chocolate torte, a cup of coffee, and read a little.
That was an overly romanticized expectation. Instead I slipped on my ear buds, listened to an audio book, stood in lines, watched crowds fill up wheeled tray towers with food, fought over who was next in the coffee machine line, paced the entire hall for a place to sit while dodging oncoming agro eaters and sugar-high children.
Enter the IKEA mess hall…
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Man, my grandmomma was from Sicily and she made the most delicious meatballs I ever tasted, like you wouldnt believe. Sadly, she died last year and she didnt leave a recipe for me so I’ve been trying to work it out on my own… slowly working my through the meatball recipes here, I still cant figure out what her secret ingredient was though!!!