Far East Cynic

Food post

I did more eating than I should have this trip. (Also consumed copious amounts of my favorite food group-beer). Dinners on these trips with the S.O. are always an event I kind of dread-not because I don’t like eating with her, its just that getting her to decide on a place to ear is always an ordeal. She just can’t reconcile the fact that time also has value, and sometimes you cannot eat a great, unique, meal at fast food prices. Her desire for tasty food, often cannot be reconciled with her nagging obsession with price.

Now its not that I am against saving money. But when you are on vacation and want to experience new and different things-it takes some time to find a place that is both good and inexpensive. Especially if you have been doing the tourist thing for a while all day-which usually places you in a location that is not conducive to good cheap eats. So I try to do copious amounts of research to find places that meet the bill-only to have my hopes dashed when we get to the location and she decides its “too smoky” or “its a drinking place”. (She says that like that’s a bad thing). Vienna was particularly frustrating in this regard- we passed on several really intriguing places due to the “smoky/drinky place” routine.  And since it was starting to rain-it was not doing much for my humor-to say the least.

Which is why I was doubly suprised that in Prague-she agreed to go into this place we stumbled onto-Parlimentu-on our last night in Praha. It was smoky and it had a lot of people drinking. (Like there is something wrong with that………). It also had some really good food:

It was onion soup-but with a better flavor!

It was more of a bar than a resteraunt proper-and its menu was fairly typical of the tourist offerings that advertised “Czech food”-but I thought on the whole it was quite good. At least the steak with pepper sauce tasted good:

The S.O. had something vegetarianey-seemed mostly rice to me-but it had good flavor:

Whatever tickles your fancy.

We split the sour cream on cucmber salad-as was normal for just about all of our Prague meals this trip:

Too much sour cream if you ask me-but still good.

We skipped dessert-we already had that earlier. With a view.

A really good view!

See! Mili is not the only one who takes cameras with her to dinner!

  1. mom, being from Wien, loved her blutwurst, but us American kids would have none of it. Yuck….
    das ist unmoglich.

  2. Skippy, I have missed reading your blog, (its a long story but involves being a slack arse about posting, and trouble with a RSS feed, a woman, and some red licorice ropes 😉

    Glad to see you are well, and traipsing around the world.