Spain is one of the three major tourist countries in the world, where you can not only enjoy sunshine, delicious food and warm service, but also fully experience the fun of life. Diet is undoubtedly one of the most attractive characteristic cultures in Spain, which enjoys a high reputation in the world, both in quality and variety. Traditional Spanish cooking often uses vegetable oil based on olive oil and animal fat based on lard, and uses various fruits and vegetables imported from Arabia and potatoes and tomatoes imported from the New World of America as ingredients.
Spaniards are used to counting their holidays in batches through a western-style friend. Westerners rest at least 150 days a year on average, which means they work 200 days a year, which means they only work 4 days a week. If the National Day falls on Thursday, most companies will have a holiday even on Friday, so it is common to work three days a week, and the annual salary of civil servants is guaranteed for 14 months. Interestingly, in order to satisfy people's habits, almost all cities have designed a street specially for use after dusk. The common feature of these streets is that there is a pedestrian walkway in the middle of the road, with tall trees planted on both sides, and the two ends of the road must be squares.
The most famous is the Ramblas Avenue in Barcelona. Its northern end is Catalonia Square, which is also the starting point of sightseeing buses, and the other end is Columbus Square, which is near the sea. Granada has Ginide Avenue, and the center is also a pedestrian walkway. There are several ice cream shops on both sides. There is a flea market in his west square. Setting up a stall every night can often buy cheap and good things.
Madrid's Castilla Avenue is even more famous. It is not only the widest road in Spain, but also has two sidewalks in the middle of the driveway. Restaurants around it will expand their business to the aisle after sunset, so you can see coffee bars and bars, which is the local lover street.
Are there so many holidays in front of the promenade, or do Spanish people have more promenades before holidays? This problem goes back to the problem of chicken and egg.
Madrid and Barcelona Madrid is the capital of Spain. Just like China and Beijing, the cuisine in Madrid is so integrated with the cooking techniques from all over Spain that gourmets sometimes argue about whether there is Madrid-style cooking. It is also an indisputable fact that many immigrants from Andalusia, Galicia, asturias and other regions have settled in Madrid, enriching Madrid's cuisine.
Tapa is an ancient food tradition in Madrid and other parts of Spain. Many restaurants and bars provide appetizers for guests, and ir de tapeo (meaning "eating appetizers") has long been a tradition. There are hundreds of bars serving appetizers on the streets of Madrid. Order a side dish and sip a small glass of wine or beer, which will be very enjoyable.
Catalan cuisine in Barcelona has a typical Mediterranean flavor and is considered as one of the healthiest diets in the world. These dishes skillfully combine various local natural foods, such as fish, meat, rice, fruits and vegetables, and olive oil. Supplemented by original soup, edible fungi, desserts and tomatoes coated with bread, they appear on the table in different cooking ways. Typical local dishes include: all kinds of delicious food made of rice as the main material or auxiliary material, tomatoes coated with bread and various enemas. The most local features of dessert are Mimado (honey and cheese) and various creams.
Whether it's a high-end restaurant mentioned in the Michelin guide or a small restaurant on the street, whether it's the restaurant itself or the dishes provided, you can experience Catalan characteristics.
One "dew" and two "long" I remember someone saying: In a sense, what to eat and how to eat will determine the character of a nation. The Spanish way of eating can be summarized as "dew" and "long".
Lou is an open-air place to eat and drink. Star hotels, restaurants, bars, snack bars, and the well-known "Haagen-Dazs" ice cream all have an outdoor world. There are outdoor balconies with better conditions, and most of them camp outside the shops facing the street and on the sidewalks on the roadside. In Palma, Mallorca, the Mediterranean. Some hotels are built on the top of the cliff by the sea, sitting on a high platform, facing the sea in the wind and bathing in the starry sky for a day; Not far away, a cruise ship covered with bright lights is slowly coming to the island. Eating in the open air, integrating heaven and earth with nature, can give birth to the elegance of literati and the happiness of ordinary people.
Let's talk about it One of these two benefits is that it takes a long time to eat and drink. Eating and drinking for a long time is not eating any running water mat, but really eating running water time. One night, I went to the small telephone shop outside the hotel, sat in the open-air seat and chewed a sandwich. There is a gentleman in front who has drunk 1/3 coke. After more than an hour, we were full, but there was still 1/3 left in this gentleman's coke. When I got back to school, someone added: When I entered the shop, I saw a man with a pizza on his plate. Three hours later, I went out of the shop and saw that he was still a pizza. No one said he was exaggerating, but he was obedient to the Spanish temperament.
Second, the store has long business hours. Spaniards go to work later than us in the morning and afternoon. Most of them eat two meals a day. The catering industry is open from noon to 4 pm, and dinner is from 6: 00 pm to about 2: 00 am the next day.
Food and wine Spanish red wine is very good, which can be called good quality and low price; A bottle of red wine equivalent to 100 RMB should be at least 800 yuan in Hangzhou, which is said by a famous person in the catering industry in Hangzhou. In Spain, Spanish red wine is an indispensable drink for dinner or other snacks. Moreover, if you order a glass of red wine in a Spanish bar, the waiter will naturally give you a snack, usually ham.
Spanish people call ham "Harmon", and the best quality is the brand "Habugao" of Andalusian autonomous region, which is said to cost 100 USD per kilogram. The famous ham, sausage and egg potato pancake are collectively called the three major snacks in Spain. Ham is very bright in color, and some are close to purple. Slices are very thin, almost transparent, and can be eaten whole or torn into strips. I think it tastes like China's bacon, but it's not so salty. It is understood that ham is made from the hind legs of first-class pigs, pickled for a long time in a special way, and then baked. Harmon is deeply loved by Spanish men, women and children. It is estimated that this reason is not only delicious, but also the role of nutrition concept.
Nowadays, beer is becoming more and more popular in Spain, and all beer lovers know that beer is delicious only after it is chilled. Let's drink beer. The wine is iced, but the temperature of the glass filled with beer is as usual. This naturally affects the taste, taste and enjoyment. It turns out that people have such experiences and feelings, just like being used to kimchi and rice, and never hearing about delicious Yangzhou fried rice. But in Spain, whether in Palma or Seville, as long as you drink beer, whether in bars, restaurants or hotels, the glasses are all iced, and the taste is of course excellent. The Spaniards showed us the other side of their unrestrained Flamenco and heroic bullfighting.
Although the dining time in Spain is about one and a half hours later than the average time in Europe, people can still maintain their original dining habits more or less because of the different business hours of restaurants. The price list is usually posted at the door of the restaurant. In addition, tourists usually offer special or fixed-price one-day tour packages.
The service charge is generally included in the list price on the menu, but it is not mandatory to charge 5~ 10% of the extra consumption. Most restaurants have a day off every Sunday or Monday, but some places are open seven days a week for guests to eat at any time.