Spanish Food

Since day one we arrived at Spain, we wanted to try some authentic Spanish food. Somehow, Alan and Kher Xin were not very keen on it!

Day One, they suggested to have KFC for our dinner!

Day Two, we had lunch at a chinese restaurant nearby our hotel and we had chinese food too for dinner -_-"

Day Three, we had lunch at the same chinese restaurant that is nearby our hotel again -__-"

That night, hubby couldn't stand anymore and suggested we should try some Spanish food.

What I do not understand is why don't they try other cuisines other than Chinese's. Wherever they go, they would surely look for chinese restaurants.

Anyway, we eventually managed to persuade them to try some Spanish food that night.

~Paella~

It's a flavoured rice dish cooked with an assortment of seafood and meat served in a huge frying pan.

I wouldn't say it's awesome nevertheless it tastes pretty good. The rice is a bit sticky. Once the paella was served on our table, it looked so yummy-li-cious and we couldn't help but started eating it until I forgot to snap a proper photo. 70% of it was already in our stomach. Tee-hee.

~Sangria~

We tried the popular Sangria too - it's Spanish wine punch. And it mean "bleeding" in Spanish. I wonder why whoever invented it named the drink as bleeding? Could it be the colour? But all red wine are red too.

~Tapas~

The chic Spanish food which we love most!!! By saying "we", I mean Nel and I ok.

It's an appetizer or could be served as side dishes. They may be cold or warm.

Originally, tapas were just slices of bread used to cover the wine glass between sips. The purpose was to prevent flies hovering around the wine.



However, it has evolved to be an appetizer to Spanish over the years. We went into a bar and the tapas were presented and arranged neatly on the bar counter. It's as if they were luring me to bring them home (my stomach, ha-ha). It's like food heaven to me :D I forgot to snap a proper picture again. Hehe... Eat first, think later ;)

They are served like "buffet style" and you just have to get a plate and select whichever you like. Yummy!!!

Beware of how many you take, it costs around 2-4 euro each and the amount of bill could be ended up sky-high. It's like having "lok-lok" in M'sia.

~Norway Lobster~

Alright, this is not really Spanish food but to avoid Alan from suggesting Chinese food again, we quickly suggested we should try seafood on one of the days while we were in Spain. We were all craving for seafood!!!!!

There's a lot of seafood restaurants along a stretch of street by the seafront boulevard and we went into this one. All in BLUE theme!

We wanted to order 2 sets of seafood plater (as it's written in the menu that each plate serves 2) but the friendly waiter seemed shock. Although we did not understand what he try to say most of the time, we guessed he was trying to indicate that the 2 portions are too much for us.

He even tried to chat with us. Bla bla bla bla Sa-grrra-da Familia bla bla bla....

The only word we understood was Sagrada Familia. Others? Not a single one! Again, sign language is the best communication tool. Basically, we guessed he was saying when the metro (underground train) passes by Sagrada Familia, the church would be shaking and he even moved his body left-right to show us. Hahaha. Not funny! But good try!

He was right. The portion was H.U.G.E!!! Luckily we only ordered 1set! The portion was so heavy man...I think it weighted 4-5kg easily. Don't play play :p

Let me think...there were 4 Norway lobsters, 4 big fish fillets, 4 huge portion of giant squids, lots of lots of mussel and countless prawn!!!!!!!

Four of us spent 2hours just to finish that seafood plater.

This was probably the only mutually-consent dinner we have had so far for the trip ..ha-ha

The rest of the days, no matter where we were, be it in Madrid or Valencia. They always try to suggest Chinese Food.

Remember I mentioned that it's quite hard to communicate in Spain because most of them only speak Spanish?

Perhaps the only word Alan learnt and remembered is "Where is CHINO RESTAURANTE"???

Hahaha!!!!!