Today is All Saints' Day, a feast celebrated in Western Christianity in honour of all the saints, known and unknown. Tomorrow, All Souls´Day, is when we have JL´s family over for roast lamb and wild rice with red onions and pistachio nuts. Happy fruit, as the Cantonese call them.
JL has been wanting to go to Chenji, a local Chinese restaurant near the Arc de Triumph, for soupy noodles for ages. But I had always resisted because it didn´t have a good ambiance. Just very basic setting for home-style food.
So here we are at Chenji with soupy handmade noodles with pork ribs for him, fried seafood noodles for me and little dragon dumplings with vinegar dip to share. JL was hoping to watch a movie about child superheroes being kicked about by mere mortals... funny in the Chinese mentality, odd in the western mind. Instead, we have a movie about gangsters fighting in a communal bath. Lots of violence, mostly gratuitous.
The weather has been capricious -- dropping 9ยบ Celcius 2 days back, then it´s warm and humid again today with lovely blue skies and waters good enough for amateur surfers.
Groups of old men play dominoes in Barceloneta but they´re not keen on bringing out the grill for sardines and beer as clouds loom close.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
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