Restaurant Asiatic Nou Wok

This is another restaurant which I've visited. I forgot where it is but I know it's at a really touristy place with lots of foreigners coming to the beaches and there's also a water theme park somewhere near. I think it's Llorets if I'm not mistaken.

Well, from the name of the restaurant, obviously you'll know it's an Asian restaurant. This is the first Asian restaurant I've visited in Spain and it's different from the rest of the restaurants. Not because it's Asian but it's BUFFET style.

Yepp, having buffet for lunch during a working day. That's life. Especially for a food addict like me.


All the workers in the restaurant are Chinese. So, for the first time I get to order myself. But it's a buffet restaurant so I didn't exactly order anything. All I said was "Coca-Cola" and therefore it's like the rest of the restaurants... Sigh..

There are many sections of food in the restaurant.

There is the fresh seafood and poultry section where you get whatever you want and the chef will cook for you

here. This is where I get to talk to the workers and found out they were migrants from China. They are "own people" (in Chinese) so I felt rather good.

And there's multicultural section I call it because they've got from western fries to eastern satay.
By the way, in Spain, fries is not a popular food here like the rest of the world. In fact, it's so rare that my supervisor find it weird eating deep fried potatoes (which we call chips in Australia).

Then, there's another seafood section. There's sushi, sashimi, prawns and snails... Yummm


And another section. The regular section where you find fried chicken, prawns, squid, octopus, duck.. I took so many rounds of food from here.

I really liked this place. Despite going for so many rounds, I haven't got enough of it. I so wanna go to this restaurant again.

First Restaurant Visited in Catalunya

One of the best privileges I get from the company I'm working for is free lunches. And it's not those kind lunches that you get from lousy cafeterias. I get to eat wherever I want and then claim from the company. So, my supervisor has been taking me to different restaurants everyday to try different food. This I should say would be the best opportunity.

I get to do what I like which is to eat and try all the local food and I don't have to pay a single cent. =D. It's like those guys who do food documentaries where they get to try all the different food for free.

So, this is my very first restaurant that I went to during the first day of work. It's an antique restaurant. Well, at least the building as it used to be a train station.

The restaurant building. It's taken from the x - railway line

The interior of the restaurant

In Catalunya (I shouldn't say Spain because the Catalans want to be recognised as the Catalans),
Most meals in Spain (or Catalunya) have three courses: starter, main and dessert. I guess it's the traditional European culture for meals. And of course, there are two main types of drinks. Water or wine.

This is my very first eat-out meal in Spain. It wasn't that extravagant but because it was my very first, it has a different memory.

Starter: Pasta Carbonara (I ordered this because it was the most recognisable name in the menu)

Main: Baked Fish with baked beans

Dessert: Rice with milk and cinnamon

The starter and the main was rather normal but the dessert, for me is new. I've been eating rice prepared in different ways but this is my first time I have it with milk. It's good though. Sweet.. and the cinnamon really goes well with it.

And this one, it's from another restaurant the next day. This is the really really local Spanish food. It's called Palla (paya). It's actually baked rice with seafood. The sauce has really complicated flavour as it has all kinds of seafood stock in it. But I love it.

Well, these are just two of the restaurants that I've visited. There are like ten other restaurants which I'll post slowly when I have the time. Working from 8 to 8 five days a week and then going out during the weekends doesn't really give me the time to blog.

More to come!!

World Cup 2010 Finale in ESPAÑA : Part II

Because I'm in Catalunya, the celebration was not so grand. I guess Madrid would have a much better celebration. It was shown on TV for two days when the footballers returned to Madrid. Of course. It's their first victory in World Cup. If Malaysia were to win World Cup, we would have celebrated for a month. But then again, haha... how many times do I have to be reincarnated before that happens.

Here are the pictures of the celebration. Picture speaks a thousand words. However, it's slightly different because there are no noise and it's not 3D.

These are the reactions after bottles of beer + Spain being the champion

The old man was doing the Spanish Bullfight with the flag with the young guy

Drinking from the trophy.

I was trying to take the picture but the girl posed in front of me.

People playing at the fountain of Girona at the roundabout. It's blur because I'm DRUNK too... haha