Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Wednesday, July 9

Early morning at the gym. The Intercontinental gym is excellent. Great and well-equipped, lots of things you can do there. The only thing I miss is a dip.

Another breakfast without soy milk. The waiter claims that they couldn´t find any in the grocery store.

Lunch again at the same Mexican restaurant near the office. I take grilled nopales with frijoles, without cheese of course. It´s the first time I have nopales, and it´s slightly dissapointing. The texture is gummy, the flavor somewhat sour. But the frijoles and salsa topping, and the side salad with tomatoes, onion and pineapple are great, and I also take a mushroom soup as first dish, so everything´s eventually OK.

A co-worker persuades me to go to Amderstam street at the evening; there are many cafes there that look nice. I go and find that they look nice indeed, but none of them offers any tasteful vegetarian dish. Everything is either based on meat or ladden with cheese. My last resort is a Cesar salad, which I ask without Parmesan cheese. The chef surely laughed while combining just two ingredients - lettuce and croutons - for such a weird customer. I wish he knew that I threw the mayonnaise-based sauce away too.

I forgot to mention horchata. A godly drink, sort of a liquid rice pudding, thick and sweet and cinnamonny and yummy.

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