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Valencia - Gastronomy

Valencia is a seaside city, and most of the tapas here are seafood. The sofa owner took me to two tapas restaurants with their own characteristics. The first restaurant, Tasca Angel, features anchovy anchovies and sardine sardines. A lot of older people come here to eat their specialties. The second restaurant, Boatella Tapas, is more down-to-earth. It is overcrowded at 9 o'clock in the evening. Plates of tapas are all set up on the counter.

Introduction of local specialties:

  1. Valencian Paella – Valencian “Paella”:Paella is translated into Spanish paella in Chinese and originated in Valencia, but in fact there is no seafood in the traditional Valencia paella. Paella means a flat, shallow, large round iron pot with ears, used for risotto. Therefore, in Spain, it is not accurate to translate paella into paella, as long as it is cooked in this pan, it can become paella. Valencia's traditional paella can include chicken, duck, rabbit, etc.
  2. Orxata/Horchata y Fartón – sweet fritters dipped in soy milk:Horchata is a common and popular drink here. It looks similar to soy milk, but it is not made of soybeans, but made of chufas (tiger nuts), which originated in Egypt. The horchata here tastes different from the horchata in Mexico, which uses rice milk. When ordering horchata here, it must be accompanied by fartón. Fartón is a long, fluffy loaf of bread covered with a thin layer of icing sugar. It is a wonderful combination to eat with horchata. It is estimated that the slender cups of horchata are designed for loaves of bread.
  3. Churros y Buñuelos – Thin fritters and donuts:Spain has quite a few fried sweets. Churros is not much different from churros in Mexico and South America, but they are eaten with chocolate sauce. Buñuelos are not the same as Colombian buñuelos, which have a lot of mozzarella-like cheese in them, and Valencian ones are solid fried spherical sweets, but some have a small hole in the middle, similar to donuts.
  4. Turrón – Marzipan Turrón:Turrón is one of the representative traditional desserts in Spain, and it is usually a must-have dessert at home at Christmas. Mainly made with almonds and honey, it tastes like nougat or peanut candy. Now in addition to almonds, there are milk, chocolate, peanut, sea salt and other flavors.

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