I think one of the novelties of being in a foreign country is that I feel twice removed from my Chinese heritage. It is very a surreal and disorienting "out of body" "out of character" "out of comfort" state. It puts into perspective for me what it means to be Chinese. What it means to be the child of immigrant parents. What it means to be the child of Taiwanese-born Chinese parents. What it means to be American-born Chinese. What it means to be an American in a foreign country. A Chinese-American in a foreign country. A tri-lingual Chinese-American in a foreign country. And it makes me wonder how much or how little the people in that place understand this layered identity. How do they process me? All the nuances, the politics, the prejudices, the social constructs, my multi-cultural values, the pieces of my heritage that I choose to wear and the other pieces I've chosen to shed-- They can't they possibly understand any of that, but what do they see instead?

Thursday, June 17, 2010

TAPASSSSS


A couple days ago we went to the best tapas restaurant that I've eaten at so far--Bilbao Berria. It was delish! It was basically a la carte/buffet style. They had platters of all different sorts of tapas so you just took which ever ones you wanted. There's a skewer in each one and you keep your skewers and then they count the number of skewers you had and then charge you 1.5 euros for each one. There were 5 of us and our total bill came out to be 51 euros, including the pitcher of sangria that we ordered, aka. 10 euros each, not bad at all!

Starting on the left going counter clockwise: shrimp on mashed potatoes, tuna salad with a few strips of raw tuna, salmon topped with some sort of delicious cream sauce and cheese


In the back is a slice of some sort of sausage topped with cheese, asparagus, and a runny quail egg. In the front is an oyster shell filled with a cheesy/oystery blend and possibly baked with bread crumbs on top.


A couple days later we hit up another tapas restaurant of the same concept...

It tasted amazing, but I couldn't identify half the ingredients...but, to the best of my ability, starting left and moving clockwise: Some sort of cheese/terrine topped with a sweet sauce and pine nuts, crab salad in a croissant with carmelized orange peels on top, & a sort of sweet and savory rice-and-or-meat patty topped with a peach slice and ham. I think I actually enjoyed these more, but the place was so crowded it was hard to have a really nice time...



Yummmmm.

Hugs and tapas,
Angela <3
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  1. 1000 reasons to smileJune 28, 2010 at 10:59 AM

    OMG. I'm drooling over the keyboard from these pics and descriptions....

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