I'm finding that restaurants serving foreign food are cheaper than the ones that serve local dishes. Strange. Anyways, accordingly, I tried some Chinese and Turkish food last week. The Chinese food here is very mediocre (If these restaurants were its only competition, Yuan Ho would win a James Beard). But it was still nice to eat something with the semblance of Asian-ness. I think I'm becoming obsessed with food that I don't have access to. Today I caught myself wishing it was my birthday so someone could give me a wrapped box in which I'd find a nice sizzling and dangerously spicy bowl of soondooboo.
The Turkish food, though, is tasty. We went to a place where they serve döner kebabs, a dish made of lamb meat cooked on a vertical spit and sliced off to order. I ordered a wrap with lamb meat, purple cabbage, lettuce, and maybe cheese. The yoghurty sauce that came with the wrap and order of fries was interesting, tangy, and altogether good.
Current thoughts:
1. This week is grueling. Three papers, one exam, and one presentation. A 5-pager in Spanish isn't exactly giving me warm, fuzzy feelings right now.
2. I might as well admit that I love Wikipedia. Today I was looking up different kinds of cheeses so I could buy some at the market and found out that Salvador Dali's painting, "The Persistence of Memory" was inspired by Camembert cheese. [Trivia that deals with both art and food at the same time is so interesting.]
3. Sometimes when I hear a word that's fun to pronounce, I unconsciously revolve whatever I say around that word. The other day my professor told us what a "friki" was (a mix between a geek and a freak), and I couldn't stop using it the whole day.
Good night!
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