AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF TRAVELING IS TO TRY THE LOCAL FOOD EVEN THE STRANGEST

Many travelers reject any food that has an unfamiliar look or strange smell and look for their own restaurants where they are peeled and miss out on the local food experience that is a must try.I happened to be guest of good hotels in the Canaries and Balearics where one dine only with "normal" specialties without character or flavour, only once a week was the day of the local cuisine which was a joy for the palate. I have tried everything, the BALUT egg with cooked chick fetus, fried insects of all kinds, the HALO HALO a strange Filipino dessert with various colors that seems to be made of gel, the tasty Thai, Chinese and Vietnamese soups with vegetables, aromatic leaves , meat or fish, very spicy and tasty, the Indian sauces in which the flatbread or Indian chapati or rice is dipped, the bean and potato soups in Peru under the arcades of Cuzco, the small restaurants of Marrakech in the famous Jemaa el-Fna square and those on Thainight markets and Malaysian beaches where you dine by candlelight with your feet almost in the water. Speaking of fish on the Maldivian island where I stayed we managed to catch about thirty kilos of fish with our hands, it was enough to dip hands and pull up, we took them to the cook thinking we were going to feast on it and instead we were disappointed, most of the fish were inedible and was spoiled by curry and other sauces; the next day we fished again paying attention to the type of edible fish and a tourist who ran a restaurant in his home city cooked it for us, it was a memorable dinner,....without curry!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

BEIJING

Image
I visited the capital of China back in 1983 on a five-week group trip through much of the country and we stayed about two weeks in BEIJING when the group returned to Italy while my girlfriend and I decided to stay longer because we liked the city a lot but on the given day we had seen very little. You have to think that in 1983 China was a poor and underdeveloped country and the Chinese all dressed the same way with blue or green tunics, both men and women, only the children were dressed in Western style, the small boys with dicks and bare bottoms so they didn't make a mess. There were very few cars and millions of all black bicycles. There were few skyscrapers, mostly the houses were low and blackened by the coal used for cooking, The Chinese were wary of us, it seems they feared being stung for accusing us of bothering us and in any case none of them spoke English, not even in the hotels and restaurants so it was difficult to communicate. There is a pedestrian street dedicated to...
Read more

Last thoughts on my recent trip to northern France

Image
I took about 1,200 photos and will post the best ones as soon as I can. The smallest cities are the most beautiful and all have beautiful historic centers. The castles, despite their different architecture, are similar inside and out. They have beautiful solid wood and inlaid furniture, canopy beds, separate bedrooms for the couple, numerous fireplaces, and enormous colorful tapestries that warmed the cold rooms. I've never seen a bathroom; it's said that Louis XIV bathed twice in his entire life. They used lace to cleanse their mouths, and when they smelled too bad, they anointed themselves with perfume; that's why they became masters in this field. Unfortunately, I no longer see the beautiful, elegant women I remember from my first distant travels. Even though they wear skirts more than Italians, they mostly wear baggy, shapeless jeans. The French are less obese and fat than us Italians, perhaps because they don't usually eat first courses, especially pasta, but r...
Read more