pie – TaB

Posted on September 25, 2017September 24, 2017 by theatrejunkiehm2012 — Leave a comment

FOOD #valparaiso #chile #FOOD

First dinner in Valparaiso was at this cool place…

…one of the servers was also a DJ: vinyl!

Mini sopaipillas with pebre, aka salsa with a SNAP.

Entree (or fonda) was oboscado, very slowly simmered beef in a very rich gravy.

This is the bone in my oboscado. I think they gave me the better part of a limb.

THIS is where I had lunch on Day 2!

The view with lunch.

Most Chilean restaurants will bring you fresh bread, butter and pebre to start. This place however, brings something like aioli…but better!

This was one of the best salads I’ve ever had.

I got hungry again walking through the old town, so I stopped here…

…for latte, juice, and Raspberry Dulce de Leche Cake.

One of my English students is from Valparaiso, and said I HAD TO COME HERE.

The best Pisco Sour and pebre I’ve had yet.

Lunch here was very simple and VERY good. Perfectly ripe avocado and tomato salad…

…the best salmon ever with blackened butter.

Last dinner in Valpo…did they give me two butter knives?

Pie de Límon. Mmmmm

Posted on May 12, 2017May 12, 2017 by theatrejunkiehm2012 — Leave a comment

Photos from #Chile : #FOOD

tapas — At Fuente Oficial, Santiago. Most restaurants in Chile have Menu del Dia — which will come with an appetizer (or in this case, tapas!)…

main course — …a main course (I went for the menu pacifico, tuna AND salmon!)…

dessert — …a dessert and coffee!

cream — I mistakenly bought this — ONE LITRE of PRE-WHIPPED CREAM– in a tetra pack, instead of milk!

Churros — Churros. CHURROS.

Mote — When a friend handed this to me, I said “What is it?” It’s called mote con huessillos, a very traditional Chilean drink + snack. At the bottom is a husked, cooked wheat and whole peach (pit still in). You eat that with the spoon, while sipping the juice, which is made of honey, water, and cinnamon. REALLY nice!

Another Menu del Dia example, from a little village in the Andes. The starter was bruschetta, salad was sliced tomatoes and cucumber. Main course was Cazuela — HALF A CHICKEN, with rice, potato, corn on the cob, and squash, all in chicken broth. And dessert was…a banana!

You can get mussels in a tin, like tuna! This makes me weep with happiness.

This was my first asado, the Chilean barbecue. NO VEGETABLES ALLOWED.

Ketchup. In a pouch. Why do I find this weird? A bottle isn’t more natural. It’s…just what I’m used to.

Marraquetas, Chile’s version of sliced bread. Which is not sliced, is precisely baked to come in 4s, and is more like a bun. Perfect for chorizo at an asado, for example.

pie de limon — I admit to being confused by some Chilean words: in any other Spanish-speaking country, this would be torte de limon, but here, it’s pie!

I can’t explain how good these cookies are. I’ll let their placement in the supermarket do it: These cookies can’t be found in the cookie section…but in the chocolate section.

This. This is the glorious empanada, fast food of South America. But putting this into the same category as McDonalds doesn’t do the empanada justice. They can be filled with almost anything – cheese, chicken, beef, black olives, eggs, shrimp, mussels! – and they’re available everywhere. I’m busy so I eat take-out a lot here, but take-out is usually this, and there’s nothing here to complain about.

Posted on June 22, 2016June 22, 2016 by theatrejunkiehm2012 — Leave a comment

Photos from China: Food and Drink

I’m ashamed that I go to McDonalds here, but I do. And they have this instead of apple pie — taro, purple sweet potato.

Yes. Purple. PURPLE. It’s good!

But even better is this. This this THIS.

Bendy straws are the only straws here. This is lemonade at a curry place I often go to. I guess they like me!

Carrefour is the supermarket closest to wear I live–it’s a French company. How Canadian am I? I picked up a can to read the English on the other side, and couldn’t figure out at first why it wasn’t bilingual!

The very aptly named Chinese version of Pringles.

Green tea being prepared. It needs its own table, cups, pots, and there’s a science to it I don’t understand.

On the left: BREAD. On the right: COCONUT JELLY CANDY.

My Starbucks name in China. (Yes, I go there too. Mostly to write.)

Look at the centre of the photo, right at the water’s surface. That’s a turtle for sale with the fish.

Karaoke, or KTV, involves beer. Lots of.

And salty snacks.

And fancy fruit for rehydration.

Live chickens in a basket.

This is why too many diseases first crop up here: NO separation between livestock and people, even in the city.

The food-handling standards are low, and washing hands with hot water – or drying them after – doesn’t happen here. But, fresh chicken!

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