Finnish Lapland

Lapland is the place to sample reindeer poro dishes, which are not too common elsewhere in Finland. The traditional way to eat this is as reindeer hash poronkäristys, usually eaten with mashed potatoes and lingonberry jam.

Other Lappish specialities worth looking out for are snow grouse riekko and the delectable cloudberry lakka or hilla, the world's most expensive berry. It grows in swamps, unripe it is red, ripe it is light orange, it contains a lot of vitamin C. In shops you find it most likely as jam lakkahillo.