吃在巴黎 (Eating in Paris)

7月3日 星期二 Tuesday, July 3

离开了巴黎,现在已经达到了比利时根特的民宿住处,简单的总结一下在巴黎的吃。

We’ve left Paris and have now reached the B&B residence in Ghent, Belgium. I had planned to simply sum up the food in Paris. Turns out, it is easier said than done 🙂

我想问~~是谁~~给了“法国大餐”那么高的名声的? 我已经尽力给法国菜一个公正的接受品尝的机会了,可是为什么我俩的感觉是没~有~味~道~??  PJG和我尝试了两次正宗的而且总是坐满了人的法国饭店的晚餐,两次的经验都是 “为什么菜没有什么味道?” 甚至似乎连盐都缺失? 总之,或许是因为我们没找到好的餐厅,或许是我俩已经被重庆火锅和味道超级丰富的泰国菜给毁掉了,我对“法国大餐”失去了兴趣 😂  PJG似乎也没有很享受他的法国餐,但是他还是不会放弃法国大餐的。

I want to ask this~ ~ Who is the one ~ ~ that gave the “French” such a high reputation for cooking? Granted, we never ate at a high end French restaurant nor even real “French Food” but I have tried my best to give French food a chance to accept the taste, but why do we feel that there is … no taste there!? We tried two supposedly authentic dinners at French restaurants that were always full of people. The experience twice was, “Why doesn’t the food have any taste?” It even seems to be missing salt! In short, perhaps because we didn’t find a good restaurant and maybe we have been forever ruined by awesome Chongqing hot pot and super-rich Thai food but I’ve lost all interest in the “French feast”. PJG didn’t seem to enjoy it either (nb but he tried his best to pretend), but he still won’t give up on the French myth.

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印度菜和中国菜 (Indian and Chinese food)

昨天晚上在一个酒馆里,PJG和一个当地的英国人聊天,我问他伦敦有什么本土的特色小吃或是菜肴,他看似严肃的说蛋炒饭,然后哈哈大笑。他认为伦敦没有什么值得一提的本土美食,如果说是寻找美食,最好的就是尝试来自各个国家不同的菜系,因为伦敦是这样一个集合世界各地人的大都市。他说的很有道理哦.

Last night at a pub, we were chatting with a local Englishman and I asked what he considers a local special dish in London – he seemed serious when exclaiming, “egg fried rice”, and then we laughed. He felt that there is no real local food in London to mention, and said that if we are to look for food, the best thing to do is to try different cuisines from various countries, because London is such a metropolis that it brings together people from all over the world.

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