This award goes to a small restaurant in Buenos Aires by the name of, "La Cupertina". The atmosphere feels like being in an old kitchen. Initially we were not sure if we were in the right place since the door was locked and there did not appear to be any customers in the restaurant. Turns out you have to be "buzzed" in and we barely beat the lunchtime rush as customers came pouring in shortly after we arrived.
Now I have had empanadas before, but La Cupertina's are the best I have ever had. The standard beef empanada is offered and tastes great, however the two types embedded in my eternal empanada loving soul are the corn and the ham & cheese. The corn one is my favorite and just had this warm sweet corn taste to it, have never tasted anything like it. The ham & cheese was also very good and had the added twist of having a little bit of sugar sprinkled on top. Man, I am making myself hungry!
All I have to look forward to now are Julia's Empanadas in DC, which are larger and pretty good but not on the same level.
Word/Phrases of the day (Disclaimer: I do not claim that these are grammatically correct, but at least they were understood):
- Delicioso!
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
The Estancia
Saturday we had a day trip to an Argentine Country House (estancia). Activities were set to include some country barbecue, a castle visit, a dancing demo, and horseback riding. Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate and it rained fairly heavily, so the horseback riding which I was looking forward to the most did not happen. However, here are some photos of the food as it was being cooked and some of the country dancing.
Word/Phrases of the day (Disclaimer: I do not claim that these are grammatically correct, but at least they were understood):
Gaucho/Gaucha
Llueve
Caballo
Word/Phrases of the day (Disclaimer: I do not claim that these are grammatically correct, but at least they were understood):
Gaucho/Gaucha
Llueve
Caballo
Re-living the Weekend: Birth of 'The Jogging Man'
The birth of 'The Jogging Man' dance occurred around 1:15 AM 12/20/2009... for those that were there enough said. Imagine the running man dance minus the legs. Too funny.
Re-living the weekend: What are they saying?
As we were finishing up at the restaurant in Palermo several of the staff approached us as were were standing next to the table and asked Andrea something incomprehensible to us (in Spanish of couse). Were we short on the tab? Were they trying to sell us more food? Were we in the way? What did they want!
Andrew responded with 'despasio' (slower) to try and get them to speak slower... no dice. I walk up and a gentleman turns to me and starts speaking Spanish faster than Humberto, so of course I could not understand and responded with 'No se' (I don't know). Andrea throws up her hands to the sky and in a near yell says 'Nosotros vamos!' (We are going!) and suddenly the guys smile and happily begin cleaning off the table. Apparently they just wanted the table to seat another group.
Word/Phrases of the day (Disclaimer: I do not claim that these are grammatically correct, but at least they were understood):
- despacio
- Donde esta el bano?
- nosotros vamos
- no entiendo (This is what I should have said)
Andrew responded with 'despasio' (slower) to try and get them to speak slower... no dice. I walk up and a gentleman turns to me and starts speaking Spanish faster than Humberto, so of course I could not understand and responded with 'No se' (I don't know). Andrea throws up her hands to the sky and in a near yell says 'Nosotros vamos!' (We are going!) and suddenly the guys smile and happily begin cleaning off the table. Apparently they just wanted the table to seat another group.
Word/Phrases of the day (Disclaimer: I do not claim that these are grammatically correct, but at least they were understood):
- despacio
- Donde esta el bano?
- nosotros vamos
- no entiendo (This is what I should have said)
Sunday, December 20, 2009
A night out in Palermo Hollywood
The scene here is quite a bit different then you might be used to. For one thing, dinner usually does not happen until 10pm and some clubs/bars do not open until 2am and business keeps going on into the morning.
Last night we grabbed dinner around 10:30pm at a place in the Palermo neighborhood that somewhat resembles DC's Adam's Morgan area. Not necessarily in layout, but in the feel of the area and the clientele at the establishments.
The next stop was this great spot called Alcornoque resto & lounge bar where we had our own tables and some nice lounge/sofa style seats. A group of around eight of us had a few rounds of cervasas and assorted other mixed drinks to pass the time until the club opened. The bill came out to $400 pesos (a little over $100 US). Needless to say this was a steal. The service was also great, which is not always the case in ARG relative to what we are accustomed to stateside, which is both a plus and a minus (more on this in another post).
Around 2:30am we walked down the street to a night club where we had drinks, talked, and danced till around 5:30am and were welcomed by the daylight. Certainly a different experience, but very enjoyable.
Last night we grabbed dinner around 10:30pm at a place in the Palermo neighborhood that somewhat resembles DC's Adam's Morgan area. Not necessarily in layout, but in the feel of the area and the clientele at the establishments.
The next stop was this great spot called Alcornoque resto & lounge bar where we had our own tables and some nice lounge/sofa style seats. A group of around eight of us had a few rounds of cervasas and assorted other mixed drinks to pass the time until the club opened. The bill came out to $400 pesos (a little over $100 US). Needless to say this was a steal. The service was also great, which is not always the case in ARG relative to what we are accustomed to stateside, which is both a plus and a minus (more on this in another post).
Around 2:30am we walked down the street to a night club where we had drinks, talked, and danced till around 5:30am and were welcomed by the daylight. Certainly a different experience, but very enjoyable.
Thank you (Gracias)
I asked my classmate Humberto, a native Spanish speaker, why I say thank you more then he does. According to him I thank people too much because I do not know what I am talking about. The example he gave is:
Somebody: Hola!
Me: Gracias!
Somebody: Como te llama?
Me: Gracias!
Funny stuff.
Somebody: Hola!
Me: Gracias!
Somebody: Como te llama?
Me: Gracias!
Funny stuff.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Hablo espanol mal (I speak bad Spanish)
Noble as my efforts are I apparently have some recurring bad habits when it comes to speaking Spanish. I have to thank my classmate, friend, and unofficial tutor for making fun of me every chance he gets. My best guess is the abuse I am receiving is his way of getting back at all the people who ever made fun of him while he was learning English. I am definitely taking one for the team... a big one (thank me later America).
What goes wrong? Here is a short list:
1) First of all I apparently speak like a woman. Not the tone of my voice, just the fact that I always seem to use the feminine form of a nouns/adjectives when referring to myself (La).
2) Not able to keep up with a conversation (by the time the conversation is over I have just realized what the topic was)
3) Try to guess the Spanish version of a word by adding an 'o' or 'a' to the end of an English word
4) Use my hands a lot when I speak (makes me look more Italian)
What goes wrong? Here is a short list:
1) First of all I apparently speak like a woman. Not the tone of my voice, just the fact that I always seem to use the feminine form of a nouns/adjectives when referring to myself (La).
2) Not able to keep up with a conversation (by the time the conversation is over I have just realized what the topic was)
3) Try to guess the Spanish version of a word by adding an 'o' or 'a' to the end of an English word
4) Use my hands a lot when I speak (makes me look more Italian)
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