Los Chinos

The adventures in food have continued, to recap I was too scared to tell my host family that I didn´t like eggs, fish, tomatoes, and so forth after I told them I was not able to eat bread, pasta, cereal, pizza, and so forth. Therefore I have been trying LOTS of new things and well I think God gave me a miracle because I like them all. And I think lunch on Tuesday was the final test... Fish Soup.

Now fish soup is an understatement and I changed the name to Soup of the entire ocean because well because something in there had legs. There was three different kinds of shells, something else that was really tough and meat that still had the scale shapes and was neon pink...

Sopa de todo el mar

I ate it and they were SO ecstatic, they kept telling me that no other student had ever eaten it before and in the back of my head I am thinking I can only imagine but I just said ¡Que Rico! My hermano told me it was very good for hangovers f.y.i.

I then told them that in the United States I don´t really eat fish, that my family never cooks them. This surprised them too but I explained that my mom was the only one who liked them. And then my host mom was even more surprised she asked "¿what about the chino, your chino brother?" he has to like fish, and I said no he only likes meat and rice, no veggies no fruit. And she was just floored that there could be a chino that doesn´t like seafood. And yes she does no he is Korean but chino serves the same pupose here and yes during this whole conversation she held her eyes in a slanted fashion with her hands. All in all GREAT lunch.

Cooking Patacones, deep fried plantains with beans

I am currently in the process of learning how to cook all the delicious food.