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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.

 

 

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Photos of #Chile : #Santiago Centro

On my walk around Central Santiago, there were bells ringing from all the churches, and ladies weaving palm fronds for people as they went into mass. I’m looking forward to Easter here next week – I can’t fathom what it’ll be like.

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Chinese New Year, IN China! Part 4: Macau

Or Macao. For various reasons, I was only able to stay one night. NOT ENOUGH. Will be going back. I spent most of my time there giggling because my Spanish allowed me to understand just about ALL the Portuguese I saw!

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Photos from China – more new food, and tastes of (my 2nd) home

 

More Moon Cakes: these were from the primary school I teach at.
Pretty box!
These are the more traditional type: the characters imprinted on the top say which bakery made the cake, and what filling is inside. I’m learning Mandarin, but I can’t read these.
Chocolate soy milk. Yum.
FRESH fish in a supermarket.
In the same supermarket…trussed-up crabs. You may be able to see some of them producing bubbly foam…they’re still alive.
Non-food: China’s National Day is October 1. This fun fair outside the mall is permanent, but on Oct 1, it was packed.
Giant balloons outside Zhongshan Expo Centre on Oct 1.
I’ve been learning to cook with a wok and just burners. This is pork and fried noodles.
Egg-fried rice.
Oh, and living with a UK citizen made me homesick…for the UK. So I found a dangerous shop which sells imports like these…
…and I made a fry-up. I didn’t take this photo – my flatmate did. His words: “It looks beautiful.”