Ikea Swedish Meatballs, Gravad Lax and Soft Toys!

February 6th, 2006 by ShaolinTiger at 12:27 PM MYT - 5,160 views

I do enjoy going to Ikea for a little outing, have some food and a wonder around the vast store, perhaps purchasing a candle holder or something on the way..

I do like their furniture but I find it rather over-priced and tend to go there to get ideas rather than buy stuff, then I'll go and find what I like at a local shop.

I really love the food though, especially the great Swedish Meatballs!

Ikea Meatballs

I've never been anywhere where they've managed to shove quite so many chips in a little pot either..

Ikea Chips

Lovely lovely meaty balls of loveliness!

Lovely Meatballs

The gravy is just perfect, and the slightly hard boiled potatoes (I usually mash them up with the gravy and a little salt and pepper, heavenly!)

Ikea Gravad Lax

The Ikea Gravad Lax is very good aswell with the nice tangy sauce, my Mom said she made it once but it took about 3 days, so I don't think I'll bother..

If you're interested though, there's a BBC Recipe for Gravad Lax here.

Of course the plates get licked clean

Clean Plates

After that I headed into the store to educate the next generation of children via the medium of soft-toy art.

I call this beautiful peice:

"Missionary with rim"

Missionary with rim

Followed by my special:

"Teddy bang"

Teddy Gang Bang

I'm good eh?

Tags: Eating, Food, gravad-lax, ikea, meatballs, salmon, sweden, swedish-meatballs

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19 Comments so far

Wingz on February 6th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
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phuiyo .... mahai i dem miss the meatballs
Adam on February 6th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
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My wife loves the food there and last week we went there 3 times just for the food but we ended up buying something else too.

About the prices, its not that bad and we found them quite resonable considering the quality; In fact they were the cheapest around.
spiller on February 6th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
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whose toes were below the plates?
foodcrazee on February 6th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
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Kewl
kimberlycun on February 6th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
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u sicko, those are kids at the teddy section. sicko!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wan Zafran on February 6th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
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That last photo... those lucky-ass bears.
Dabido (Teflon) on February 6th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
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Bears caught in the octopus position! lol
Dana on February 6th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
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I know this someone that can make the original kottbullar (swedish meatball) and it is nothing like what Ikea is serving. Apparently he says the meatball needs half portion of minced beef mixed together with half portion of minced pork, and added on with some mashed potatoes (can be replaced with oatmeal).

I love it everytime when he invites me over for the kottbullar. It is always being served with tad bit of lingonberry jam. Sometimes he would make some very traditional swedish mashed potatoes that goes splendid with it too.

Slurrp!
Andrew Lim on February 7th, 2006 at 7:27 am
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This post gets 10/10 from me because of the Teddies.
Thanks for making me ROFL today. =)
KY on February 7th, 2006 at 9:19 am
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you sick ang moh
ShaolinTiger on February 7th, 2006 at 11:08 am
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Adam: The price for smaller items is ok, but larger items I find rather expensive, especially soft furnishing. Like there is a sofa there I liked, it was RM5600 I got one outside, which is somewhat nicer and larger for RM1800.

spiller: Secret guest man..

Dana: That sounds heavenly!
Lungiman on February 7th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
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i'll never be able to look at a teddy bear the same way again
Laynie on February 7th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
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You know, that display would be in the children's section...
Kuzco on February 8th, 2006 at 4:51 am
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The children would be too innocent to notice anything wrong with the teddies..
ShaolinTiger on February 8th, 2006 at 11:25 am
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Lungiman: Teddy's get all the fun eh?

Laynie: Well it wasn't it was near the restaurant Plus kids wouldn't know what it was supposed to be, plus I put them back to normal after, plus kids have to learn about sex some day anyway right?
dSaint on February 8th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
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dude, try the one in KLCC food court. on the right as you walk in. taste similar. in my humble tastebuds opinion(imhto) if ikea's is 10/10, then this would be 8/10.
Jayboy8 on February 8th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
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*sees the teddy pics* you naughty boy hahaha.. giving free sex educations to kids... pity those teddies they just may get caught for 'khalwat' later hahahahaha

IKEA meatballs YUCK! Taste nothing like those Swedes make. If you are interested in making some meatballs yourself, have a look at my recipe page http://jayyummy.blogspot.com/
J on February 9th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
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*gasp*

You naughty man!

(Them poor teddies! - such blatant misuse of cute soft toys!)
Bubbles on November 12th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
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Hahaha! I knew this blog belonged to a guy cos only guys would do what u did to teddies. Chanced upon your blog when I was trying to find out why the Ikea Cafe here in KL stopped serving Swedish meatballs. Any idea?