April 2013
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I brought an ocarinas, which is in a shape of owl, and
one of my friends brought the other one,
St. Petersburg, 2013 |
When you travel aboard, you probably want to explore the local culture and have some adventures. I am not a person who likes taking big risks. But you have to eat something during the trip, and I think trying the local food is an exciting experience. Also, I quite enjoy eating.
Russia is famous for caviar, vegetable soup, and vodka, so I tried some traditional cuisine while I was there.
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| The starter, St. Petersburg, 2013 |
The welcome drink and snack consisted of caviar with a cracker and a glass of sparkling white wine. The starter was fresh tomato with egg mayonnaise, cold sliced meat with fresh sliced cucumber, chopped beef with yogurt, basil and cranberries on top, pickles-tomato, cucumber, garlic and asparagus. There was vodka, red and white wines to drink. The most delicious dish was mushrooms in cream sauce. This was eaten with bread, then we had vegetable soup. However, the main course, pan-fried chicken with rice was not very good. The chicken was not too bad but the rice was quite dry and solid as if it was a week old. The dessert was a pancake with ice-cream and a hot fudge sauce.
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| Vegetable soup, St. Petersburg, 2013 |
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Delicious mushrooms in cream sauce,
St. Petersburg, 2013 |
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| Chicken with rice, St. Petersburg, 2013 |
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Pancake with ice-cream,
St. Petersburg, 2013 |
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| Singers with the band, St. Petersburg, 2013 |
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One of the singers holds a percussion instruments,
St. Petersburg, 2013 |
In general, the food was not my kind of thing, but the mood in the restaurant was distinctly joyful. This was because there was singers with a band, who lent customers percussion instruments. Although we did not know what they were singing, we just played in a long time with the music. When they finished, they sold us the instruments, such as mandolin and ocarinas were in shapes of different birds. The percussion was a string of ten long pieces of plastic. You held the first and the last one and shook the hold thing from side to side and make a noise.
The restaurant was in a beautiful wooden house, and had four or five slopping roofs and a round tower with a weathercock made of metal and several pieces different colours of glass. Beside the restaurant, there was a huge wooden slide, more than four metres high. Regrettably it was closed.
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| The restaurant, St. Petersburg, 2013 |
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| The huge wooden slide, St. Petersburg, 2013 |
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| Inside of the restaurant, St. Petersburg, 2013 |
Back inside the restaurant, their furniture made of wood from the top to the floor. It was full of animals specimens - bears, birds, deer, squirrels - They looked alive as if they could make noises. I thought if the place went dark, they wold walk around or flutter their wings, or even eat in the kitchen.
Not only did I go far the gastronomic adventures, I felt I could go hunting in the house.
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