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I felt the same. It worked 3 years in just another city/island of my own country with the same local dishes but they use different ingredients so it tasted different. They don't have our own ingredients and even the neighbors who came from my own hometown can't get the same flavor at all. Got homesick so much. One of our local vegetables is a good gift because it is not imported so much to other islands.
This was me during my stay in China wen I was missing African food. Back home I always complained of being tired of my homeland food but after being in China and going 3 months without it, I had to use whatever ingredients I could find to improvise