Dear Sam,
I can officially say I've had a Barcelona night out! Settle in and I'll tell you all about it...
I headed into Plaça Catalunya and met up with Felicity, one of the other new teachers from FIAC and self-professed owner of absolutely no sense of direction whatsoever, with the goal of going to the Asian Cinema festival and getting up to my elbows in some culture. We had a bit of a wander and found ourselves by the Arco de Trionfo, shortly before completely failing to go and see and Asian films...we did, however make it to the Chinese supermarket, where I bought some oyster sauce, fish sauce, Sichuan pepper and (here I got a bit excited) the iced tea that I used to drink in Shanghai.
From there we headed to meet up with Nuria, another fellow newbie and generally lovely person, for dinner - a Vietnamese affair, consisting of rice noodles which featured onions that had clearly been soaked in angel's tears or something equally heavenly as they were de-freakin-licious! For afters we shared a chocolate mousse with mango coulis, which was so rich it would have made Bill Gates blush.
After this second very Asian but in no way film related event, we headed to meet some of Nuria's friends at a club to celebrate somebody or other's birthday...by grinding about in a basement to system of a down, the who and something rappy...let's say the music was mixed...
Fortunately my worries about to get back to Sabadell were allayed as we passed the 5am mark, meaning I could take the morning service train home, crossing the morning commute on its way past. I arrived at Sabadell estacio and got home and into bed just as my alarm went off to tell me I should be getting up. Needless to say I did the techno version of telling it so sod off and slept until 1pm that afternoon. The sky looked blood nice though!
My sunday wasn't a lost cause though; through the fog of not much sleep and too much beer (and a bit of honey rum, which is, by the way, insanely tasty) I managed to summon up the energy to make DaoXiaoMian - my favourite type of noodles...FROM MOTHERFLIPPING SCRATCH!
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| Smashed it! |
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