Month: April 2021

Beer & Wine, Event/Activities, Home, Sweet & Coffee

Sake & Soba @ Friends’ House

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Invited to friends’ house: Starting with Sake, they brought from Japan. We love sake. Yay!

Japanese delicacies such as eel bone chips, nori, dried squid etc along with sake. Then we had soba, sangria, ham, cheese, Portuguese white wine, queijada, fruits, baked banana etc. It was a blast!

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Breakfast: Bolo de arroz, melon, coffee @ 7:45 a.m., brunch: Curry rice with egg @ 10:30 a.m.

Opening a box of truffles from Chocolataria Equador @ 11:00 a.m., So good 🙂

Home

Gas Inspection for the pipes

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Breakfast @ 8:20 a.m., Actually I couldn’t sleep last night and had this apple pie (2pcs) around 11:00 p.m. too.

The inspector and the landlord came this morning to operate a lot of tests to find what causes water leak down and upstair units of us. He injected colored water then gas to pipes but still couldn’t find the spot. “Está estranho.”

Iberico Presunto & wine @ 2:00 p.m., the inspector came at 10:00 and finally left around 1:30 p.m.

Lunch: Salmon, spinach, rice, wine @ 2:40 p.m.

Dessert: Doce da casa

Event/Activities, Home, Restaurant/Take Away/Delivery

Another Esplanada Meeting

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The friend, I met yesterday invited me to another meet-up with a new friend, she had known through SNS. I usually would say, “No thank you” but went to meet them since it was a great opportunity in many ways. I had never tried a restaurant/cafe in the Comercio Square because it’s a tourist spot. It was actually nice to see Tejo River from the spacious terrace (esplanada) with few people. At the same time it’s sad to see everywhere sort of empty…Spent 2 hours here.

I stopped by a favorite chocolataria and a Asian market, then walked home.

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Breakfast: Easy apple pie, coffee @ 7:30 a.m. I repeatedly make this recipe, so easy and so good.

Leftover pasta (so hungry couldn’t wait for lunch) @ 11:45 a.m., Lunch: Take out (chicken stroganoff for him, roasted pork for me + soup, wine, got stuffed and no room for dessert) @ 12:40 p.m.

Beer & Wine, Event/Activities, Home, Restaurant/Take Away/Delivery, Sweet & Coffee

Tomar Cafe na Esplanada

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Meeting a new friend for the first time at cafe in a park. It’s not typical me but I have made several friends through online during the pandemic. I hit it off with some of them by regularly having “Zoom” meetings. We spent 2.5 hours in the terrace and I had strawberry lemonade, latte & cheesecake :p

We went to the supermarket at El Corte Ingles. She showed me all the good stuff. There was a wine specialist, Jorge who answers customer’s questions and suggests which wine would be good for them. I bought one bottle, I was looking for and another, he recommends. I really wanted to try empanadas (empadas in Portuguese) in the last photo, but my husband and I don’t eat in the evening, so I will wait for the next time.

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Breakfast: Bolo de chocolate, orange, coffee @ 7:40 a.m., Pizza bread with wine @ 10:50 a.m., Anchovy & garlic pasta @ 11:35 a.m.

It was not a good idea to open a bottle before a 30 minute walk to the park, but I couldn’t resist. This is an organic wine and it’s fairly good but not a wow factor.

Event/Activities, Home, Sweet & Coffee

Meeting up with Friends in Belém

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Since yesterday restaurants could open to offer food and drinks at outside terrace (esplanadas) . Museums and monuments are now open as well. We met up with friends in Belem area. It was very nice to catch up with them and enjoy the breeze and sun.

Best & original pastéis de nata (Portuguese egg tart)! It’s called ‘Pastéis de Belém.’

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Bola de Berlim & Rolo de canela @ 7:40 a.m., Hawaiian breakfast @ 11:30 a.m., Lunch @ 12:40 p.m.

Picking up ‘Lisboa Viva’ card at Marques de Pombal

Home

Pork Karaage

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Lunch: Pork Karaage, salad, rice, miso soup @ 12:10 p.m.

I was craving for Karaage, usually chicken but there was only pork in the fridge. It turns really nice and the furikake (ゆかり）was so delicious with shiso flavor.

Another round（おかわり）

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Breakfast: Bolo de bolacha, orange, coffee @ 8:00 a.m.
Home, Restaurant/Take Away/Delivery

Bifana, One of Portuguese Soul Foods

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We walked toward/around Alfama, one of oldest neighborhoods in Lisbon. The garden with a viewpoint, we wanted to go was still closed and a staff said it would be reopened on Monday.

Unexpectedly we were in front of our favorite bifana place. Why not enjoying one!? It’s been a long time since we had it in December 2019. Bifana is a Portuguese pork sandwich with mustard and piripiri (hot sauce). It is like a soul food and goes really well with beer. Usually help yourself to add mustard and piripiri as you like when dining in but this time they just asked and added in the kitchen. It was a lot more than I usually do and so hot!!! I mean it was the best. Locals know how to enjoy it best. Bifana 2.50€ x 2, Beer 1€ @ 11:30 a.m.

I am so obsessed with dogs and art pieces of this particular artist.

Lunch: Steak salad and rose wine @ 2:30 p.m.

Dessert: Bolo de bolacha @ 4:30 p.m.

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Breakfast: French toast & carrot cake, apple, coffee @ 7:10 a.m., Empada de pato @ 9:30 a.m.

Home, Restaurant/Take Away/Delivery

Hair Done & Sushi

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Since last August I hadn’t been to a hair salon and my hair had look miserable with a lot of gray hair. Today I went to get a hair cut and color after two-month “lock down”

After spending 5 hours and 165€ here is my new hair. Love it!!! I was so brave that I chose a hairdresser who didn’t speak English, so I was not sure she understood what I asked…I learned something too. Highlight is expensive! If I got only cut and root color only, it would cost 45€.

Lunch: Take out Japanese from Watashi, Lisboa @ 4:30 p.m. His: Teriyaki chicken bento (10€), mine: Gunkan mix (12€)

A friend of mine, Portuguese guy says that sushi in Lisbon is terrible, but I think it’s not bad. It’s different from ones in California or Japan but pretty good 🙂

Dessert

Walk to the miradouro after lunch

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Breakfast: Croissant, strawberries, coffee @ 7:10 a.m., Soba, only he had @ 9:00 a.m. If I had known I spent 5 hours in the salon, I would have had soba too. I was starving when my hair was done (The salon offers snack and drink tho.)