Eat up the English inline below!
7月19日 星期四
我俩已经离开柏林了，稍微总结一下，在柏林也没有吃到什么惊艳的东西。
Thursday, July 19
We have left Berlin, and in summary regarding the food we had: there was nothing stunning.
柏林小吃
咖喱肠算是德国的街头小吃吧， 但是怎么吃也不算是什么独特的口味，就感觉是咖喱口味的热狗。
Berlin Snack
Currywurst is a favorite German street food, but it didn’t seem very unique because it really just tasted like curry-flavored hot dogs. It has been one of Berlin’s local favorites since someone came across curry powder from the British in 1949.
柏林菜
德国大肘子也是德国的一道名菜，传统做法是煮很长时间，把肘子煮的很烂很烂，配有点像东北的酸菜那种酸菜吃。我俩去的这家饭馆，做的是另外一种做法的，就是把整个肘子都油炸，我想想觉得油炸的应该更好吃些，就放弃了去传统做法的另外一家餐厅。结果，味道一般吧，炸的酥皮味道还好，但是里面基本没什么味道。
Berlin cuisine
Pork knuckle is one of the most famous dishes in Germany. Although traditionally it is prepared slow cooked but the restaurant we went to deep fried it which sounded very tasty. We were prepared to wait a while since on the menu it said it would take at least 30 minutes to prepare. Actually, we waited more than an hour for the dish to come! The fried crispy skin tasted really good, but there was basically no taste inside. I was a little disappointed 😁
越南菜
这是在等Markisches博物馆开门的时候，偶遇的一家小餐厅。牌子上写的是越南泰国菜，但是灯笼又是日本饭店的灯笼，所以是混杂的亚洲菜。柏林这里很多这种混杂的，尤其是越南和日本菜，经常出现在一家餐厅里。 这家的味道很好，价格又便宜，是午餐不错的选择。
Vietnamese cuisine
We encountered this small restaurant while waiting for the Markisches museum to open. The restaurant sign says Vietnamese Thai food, but the lantern is a typical Japanese restaurant lantern, so it is a mixed Asian cuisine restaurant which we found was typical for all the Asian restaurants in Berlin, especially a Vietnamese and Japanese combination. It turned out that this was a very good place with delicious food at a decent price.
柏林菜
安东尼·伯尔顿是美国比较有名的厨师，作者和电视节目主持人。我自从到了美国后，开始认识他和他的旅游加美食节目，便喜欢上了他的节目。他周游世界各地谈论当地的美食，文化和不同的人群，是一个很有个性和观点的主持人。他的节目曾获得过艾美奖呢，想想只是一个厨师出身的他，这是一件很不容的事情。他去过中国的好几个城市，其中还有哈尔滨的一期呢。我俩一直都在追踪他出的每期的新的节目。在播出他最新的一集柏林后，我俩就打算来柏林的时候一定要去一个他去过的餐厅。结果就在1个多月前，在录制他在巴黎的一期节目的时候，他竟然选择了自杀。真的非常非常的意外。
Berlin cuisine
Anthony Bourdain was a famous celebrity chef, author and television personality. Since I came to the United States, I began to get to know him through his shows and following his travel programs. He travels around the world talking about local cuisine, culture and meeting different people who share his point of view. His show has won an Emmy. He has been to several cities in China, including an episode in Harbin. After airing his latest episode in Berlin last month, we said we would visit the restaurants he talked about. But shortly after the Berlin episode, he committed suicide while making a new episode in Paris. It was very, very shocking to us and to many Americans.
这家饭馆，其实也不能叫饭馆，这里除了卖菜品以外，还卖生肉，就是安东尼来柏林那集中去过的一个饭馆。我俩还问了老板是否记得安东尼，她说当然记得。在我俩吃饭的时候，我俩还问了旁边几个客人是否认识安东尼，她（他）们都说认识，但其实并不知道他来过这里录制节目。这里的菜不算惊艳，但是味道还不错，是传统的德国菜，感觉就像是妈妈做的菜。
This restaurant / meat shop was one of the places Anthony Bourdain had been to in his last Berlin episode. We asked the boss if she remembered him and she said of course she did and recalled his visit with us. While we were having dinner, we also asked the people sitting next to us if they knew Anthony, who all said yes they knew him, but didn’t actually know he had been here to record his show. The food was traditional German food and tasted pretty good – like mother’s comfort food.
披萨
我感觉在我对地方菜再没有什么兴趣的时候，披萨是很不错的选择，这里的披萨还真好吃。这也是我第一次自己点一个披萨。我以后再也不会说不喜欢吃披萨了，哈哈 😂
Pizza
Pizza has become a good choice when we didn’t know what to eat and the pizza from this very busy restaurant was really good. This was actually the first time I ordered a whole pizza for myself. I guess I can never say I don’t like pizza anymore, haha 😂
感觉这里人吃饭比较随便，有很多小的披萨，汉堡店，甚至很多都不是饭店，就是一个那种看着临时的亭子，里面就有烤披萨炉，外面摆几张桌子，几把遮阳伞，而且客人还很多。另外这里有很多土耳其移民，尤其是我俩民宿的这个区域，非常多的土耳其烤肉店，大大小小的遍地都是，不过我俩在根特已经尝试过了，就没在这里吃了。总体来说，跟美国和我俩已经去过的城市相比，柏林的物价是最低的，在一个平民的饭店一个人解决一顿平民的晚餐，有个6欧元就吃的很饱, 如果去土耳其烤肉那种地方，吃一个烤肉夹馍之类的还会更便宜些。
I feel people here in Berlin eat more casually which means they just buy something simple and eat where ever they like. There are a lot of small pizza, hamburger restaurants, and some may not be called restaurants, because they are more like small temporary pavilions with a pizza stove where they put a few tables and chairs with umbrellas next to. There are also a lot of Turkish immigrants, especially in the area where we stayed, so there were lots of Doner Kebab restaurants, big and small. We’ve tried it in Ghent and Antwerp so we didn’t try any here. Overall, compared to the US and the cities we’ve been to, Berlin has the lowest prices. Someone with six euros one can have a pretty good meal and if eating at those doner kebab places, it can be even cheaper.