this will be my crucial month since my grades pretty much depends on how i perform for my group projects and oral exam.
i was on msn talking to two friends who are finally getting out of military service this summer and one of them will be entering boston university in august.. so the other friend and i were talking about planning a road trip in the states next summer.. *looks on dreamily
moving on to germany updates..
munich.
our first meal in munich took place at augustiner am dom where i had bradwurst with sauerkraut with a sidedish of nudlen (german noodles).
i am usually adverse to the taste of pork but the bradwurst was really tasty.. i guess the presence of the saunerkraut helped cut what could potentially have been an extremely porkish taste..the nudlen (noodle) was slightly more interesting. plain tasting thumbnail-size of floury-doughy bits..it is difficult to imagine this topping anyone's favourite food list.. but hey, at least i can say i have tried german noodles.. haha..
we ate a lot of rubbish along the way and i even had a lacklustre belgium waffles from haagen daaz..
on our second day in munich, we headed over to famous beer drinking hall Hofbrauhaus. though Hofbrauhaus suffers from the reputation of being too touristy, i do believe that tourism encourages bavarians to keep their unique customs alive.
third row on left, the weisswurst is au fait bavarian breakfast. it is a white veal and herbed sausage eaten with mustard and i had a freshly-baked mustard to go with it.
here are some tips for eating this veal-lishly good dish: 1. peal the skin from the sausage and 2. the liquid within the pot is just water, DO NOT mistake it for broth or drink it
ooo, the pretzel really was deliciously fresh.. hey, i have had pretzels on three occasions since arrival in germany, so a fair amount of authority should be awarded.. haha.. check out the litre-strong beer mugs!
since andi could not finish his lunch, i gleefully chomped through half a lamb shank with roasted potatoes and beans.. there was a young german waitress hawkering giant pretzels and though i seriously suspected that her shirt mini pink outfit served as a motivation for sales, i was genuinely attracted by the sheer knowledge of eating the mega-pretz.. but alas, after my wiesswurst and lamb shank, i coud only stomach half the giant pretzel.
actually before hofbraunhaus, i had a hazelnut and caramel muffin from san francisco coffee company.. it was slightly on the dry side, with a faint scent of either hazelnut nor caramel but having been deprived of muffins for so long.. there were no major damages.
after returning to stuttgart, i found an easter present waiting in my room from andi's family.. MORE CHOCOLATES! i got to have my sugar blood level checked back in copenhagen.. the snickers bar that i had the night before.. neuhaus white chocolate that i had on our drive back..and now this!besides the foot-tall chocolate rabbit, there were malteses, milky ways, marsbars, doves etc etc.. it was especially difficult to resist since they were all bite sized pieces, this making it easier to try EVERY SINGLE one.. two words: kinder bueno. mighty yum.
OH WHY CAN'T MY TASTEBUDS BE MORE DISCERNING?!
i got to admit i had a great time with the bunny- that sounds disturbingly hugh hefner-esque.. despite a throbbing semi-sore throat, i gamely polished half the chocolate rabbit on my flight back to copenhagen and the other half today.. i am beginning to suspect that i could be addicted to chocolates, which is odd because i am hardly 'addicted' to any food in particular. oh maybe bread, but that's more of a preference (over the other carbs) and 'soft spot' issue.. whilst today, i actually found myself itching for chocolate after breakfast.. oh dear.
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