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Hawaii makes chocolate - and it´s delicious!
Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory When you come to the Aloha State, go beyond the mai tais and and enjoy some divine, locally grown chocolate! The Hawaiian islands are home a number of chocolate-making companies, and most are bean-to-bar businesses. Hawaii is the only U.S. state which grows cacao, then processes and makes it into bars and other cocoa products. I've done my share of eating chocolates on the different islands, and I find the chocolate confections not overly sweet and…
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Eating our way through Singapore. My friend Brenda in the marketplace in Little India
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You're right, Maralyn, this even happens in the US, but much less frequently. But after a while, it almost becomes a game to see where I will be treated as I like. Have a great time at SIRAH!
Monique, I may have to hit you up for suggestions next time I'm in Paris!!
Hi Jose,
I've found it to depend on what part of what country, U.S. included.
Most chefs, find it difficult to cook meat well done. In the U.S. we started with it cooked well done and developed a taste for medium and rare during the past 30 years. However, some have not.
Should you be able to get what you want, yes. But, some establishments just don't respond that way, even in the U.S.
European restaurant service vs. American service: what do you guys think?
Many Europeans I know find American-style service too intrusive, too fakey-friendly ("Hi, I'm Susie, and I'll be your waitress today"), and not professional enough. I for one think most food in Europe is Nirvana, but do mind the aloofness of many European waiters (many a time my throat has been parched while waiting for a chance to ask for a second bottle of water!). I've also been bullied and berated all around the continent for daring to disagree with the chef or even the waiter. Once, having dinner at Fattoria dei Barbi, a splendid vineyard in Tuscany famous for its Brunello di Montalcino where I had one of the best meals of my life, I dared to ask for a Coke (never developed a taste for wine, you see). Our waiter plotzed. "Wine or water!" he informed me with a stern look. I knew better than to fight this battle. I had water. In Sitges, a quaint fishing village outside Barcelona, a waiter at El Trull all but slapped me in the face when I asked for my steak well done. The steak came out lightly seared and bleeding profusely on the inside. I had to send it back to the kitchen three times until, as I'd requested, no pink was visible. "Sir," the waiter finally said with a sneer, "the problem is that you don't know how to eat meat." Maybe not, but I certainly know how to pay for it, and if I want my meat nuked, it's the chef's job to nuke it. "It hurts the chef to overcook good meat," the waiter added, trying to soften the blow. Is it so wrong to ask for what you want, rather than what the chef wants?
What do you guys think?
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