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|  || Thursday, October 12, 2006 || Day 30, or Wednesday 4th Oct - Poitevin Macaroons!!Got some local Macaroons. Chocolate and pistachio.  [Macarons de Montmorillon. Well I think Montmorillon is part of Poitou so that makes them Poitevin] [The Macaroons]Not quite Ladurée. Still, they make a decent snack and were finished in 2 seatings. Mummm. *** Day 31, or Thursday 5th Oct - 1 Month Anniversary! We've been in France for 1 month now and we're still alive!! Celebration at the Magenta (a swanky restaurant along Rue Magenta), Shumin's treat. Also in celebration of my 21st! Food was good. Will let the pictures speak for their own:  [From left to right - Row 1: Table mat, Foie gras pâté, Shumin and her Tiramisu; Row 2: My veau (still have not found out what meat this is) with mushroom cream sauce and pasta, Table mat, Shumin's Ham-and-Mushroom Pizza with a lovely taste of olive oil; Row 3: Me and my Benedictine, solo picture of the Benedictine and once more tha Table mat]Dear Shoo, thanks for the lovely meal! =) *** Day 33, or Saturday 7th Oct - Fête du Chocolat! Took a train up to Chatellerault (which is a lovely suburban-ish town, the sort of place one wants to settle down and raise a family in) for the Fête! Happily it only cost €3!  [From left to right - Row 1: Pretty view of Chatellerault, Honey-and-pain d'épice (a honey spice cake) man, chocolate roses, flavoured chocolate; Row 2: Cognac man, chocolate cakes, Dèscartes chocolate: dark chocolate cover, praline centre studded with crispy crêpe-wafer bits, Macaroons! by Thierry Hathoam; Row 3: Chocolate man, Chocolate-nut-raspberry biscuits, Chocolate couple, Cake woman; Row 4: Chocolate bars, Confiture stand, Sirop stand and guy who looks like Tin Tin (he left Snowy at home), a quaint cottage at Chatellerault]Bought rather a lot of food. Don't I always. A group picture:  [Clockwise: The chocolate-nut-raspberry biscuits, duck rilettes (a meat spread), Dèscartes chocolate, Macaroons!, Maple sweets, chocolate spread]For lunch, we went to Le Shanghai. Run by Vietnamese who learned cooking in Hong Kong, this chain curiously does not serve Shanghai-nese cuisine.   [Top photo: rice, sweet-and-sour pork and furong egg; Bottom photo: still the sweet-and-sour pork, beef with onions and a fried beansprouts, a complementary dish. Maybe it's because I look greedy that I seem to attrach free food. Long may it continue!]Still, even pseudo-Chinese food is welcome! |