The first is the crepe stand that can be seen everywhere on the street.

The crepe is a traditional snack in Brittany, northwest France, which basically has two flavors: salty and sweet. If you go to the traditional crepe stand, the main meal is salty crepe, and the dessert is sweet crepe. Of course, the drink is accompanied by the most local cider.

The material of crepe is very simple. The crust is nothing more than flour, water, eggs and cream, and some will add a little beer yeast to enhance the flavor. As for the stuffing, it's great. A variety of homemade ingredients, including eggs, ham, cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes, salmon, beef and so on. , can be combined at will.

If you go to a crepe stand and are not satisfied with the collocation on the menu, you can directly tell the boss the ideal combination method. Usually, as long as you have ready-made materials at hand, there is nothing you can't do. The French say that if you can't match it according to your taste, it's not called a crepe. However, according to my experience, it is just right to choose three ingredients at a time, more than four, and I am afraid that the skin will burst; When eating, ingredients are also easy to scatter, which is not conducive to flavor.

Street stalls are sweet and beautiful, and they are important snacks after lunch and before dinner. French people start dinner very late, 8 o'clock is normal, 10 is not too late. Many people have the habit of eating snacks around four or five in the afternoon, especially sweets. Therefore, in the afternoon, the crepe stalls on the street are often occupied by hungry people.

The most popular is to spread the sweet and thick hazelnut chocolate sauce, and it is also very common to spread jam or lemon syrup such as strawberries and apricots. There are also Yangchun pancakes sprinkled with sugar, which are most often ordered by students with limited pockets and greedy mouths.

If you eat in a restaurant, there will be more changes. Add a mass of vanilla ice cream, drizzle with chocolate sauce or maple syrup, and decorate with fresh orange slices or other fruits. This is the most popular restaurant-level dessert.

Panini

Often sold with crepes is a long Italian sandwich-panini, which is another simple snack for Italians to conquer picky French after pizza.

In Paris, take-away pizza is usually cut into squares, just enough for one person to eat, so it is convenient to eat while walking at hand; In addition to pizza shops, ordinary bakeries will also supply them. You can ask the clerk to heat them in the microwave oven.

Panini is a kind of long white bread with stuffing, which is a bit like a sandwich made of French baguette. However, panini is eaten after heating, which is more in line with our oriental taste than cold and hard French bread. There are many choices of fillings. If you want something light, you can order mozzarella cheese with tomatoes. The choice of carnivores ranges from beef, chicken, mutton and smoked sausage to fried beef patties similar to McDonald's.

The most delicious panini is in the alley behind the Great Man Temple. The boss is half Italian, and the store is not big, but he sells the hometown flavor of Florence that he is proud of.

Choose any kind of stuffing, and then ask the boss to pour you some olive oil and add some Brazil. After being squeezed and baked in the oven, panini's skin is crisp, but after a bite, it has a soft taste, and it has a fragrance of spices, which makes people suck their fingers and remember!

Arab barbecue sandwich

Another delicious thing like crepes and panini is the Arabian BBQ sandwich.

Once, my Greek classmates excitedly took me around the alleys near the Latin quarter, where there were many Greek restaurants. Every time a classmate passes by, he talks to the clerk in Greek. If he can't speak his hometown, he can't do business. When I passed an Arab barbecue restaurant, I blurted out that I wanted to eat an Arab barbecue sandwich. Unexpectedly, he immediately "corrected" me. Barbecue sandwiches come from Greece, not Arabs or even Turks. Later, I found that Arabs and Turks also insisted that they were authentic.

I asked my French friend with a puzzled face, and the answer was more complicated. A friend said that barbecue and lettuce salad were also wrapped in thick shells. Jews call it "Shawema", while North Africa, Arabs and Turks call it "Barker". However, it is said that the first person to introduce this sandwich to Paris was a Greek, so Parisians called it a "Greek sandwich".

Basically, they are all the same thing, but there are different kinds of meat and salads. Arabs don't eat pork, so the barbecue is mainly veal and mutton, and there is a guest of French fries; Shawema made by Jews has more vegetable salad and no French fries; As for the Greek sandwich, the salad is very special, with fresh onions, tomatoes and cheese, topped with a sauce made of high-quality whipped cream, and the taste is very refreshing.

Farafe

I think there may be many exotic sandwiches in Paris. Unexpectedly, there is another kind of "Farafe" from Lebanon that I have never heard of or seen!

One day, when I was passing through the Latin quarter, I saw a group of students waiting in line to buy a food that looked like a triangular pocket. Experience tells me that the food that usually attracts students to line up must be delicious and cheap. So, although I only have ten euros in my pocket, I have the courage to line up with the crowd.

When it was my turn, I did the same and asked the clerk for a "small distant fee". I saw the clerk pick up a round cake and bake it in the oven. After baking, he picked up scissors and cut a big gap in the side of the cake, then stuffed some lettuce salad and some emerald croquettes in it. I noticed that those croquettes were obviously the main course, but I just didn't know what they were. The clerk wrapped it and handed it to me, pointing to the lettuce salad on the open table, indicating to pick it at will.

I saw her with my fingers, including a dozen or twenty kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables that dazzled me at the dinner table, including brightly colored smoked green peppers, cucumber slices sprinkled with spices, chopped onion salad, Brazilian green sauce with full flavor enhancement, purple beets, buttered corn kernels, whole raw peppers and brown-green smoked olives ... Are these all for me? I measured the space of the bagged cake, stuffed the croquettes as hard as I could, and tasted almost everything like a greedy child.

That strange fried meatball tastes really special, emitting an indescribable spice flavor. The clerk told me that meatballs are made of crushed chicken beans mixed with fresh vegetables and spices, and then fried in vegetable oil, even vegetarians can eat them. I took a big bite of Farafil, which was almost full of ingredients and felt much fresher than a Greek sandwich, because there were many vegetables in it and it was not greasy at all. When I chew it, my mouth is still full of the smell of croquettes.

This is also the wonder of Paris, which can always satisfy the lifestyles of all ethnic groups and is a carnival stage in the world of flowers and flowers. Office workers who can't spend too much time eating, students with limited financial resources, and people who prefer to have a picnic in the park instead of sitting in a restaurant can all find their own places, even if they just eat a simple fast food, a can of Bardois sparkling mineral water, a bottle of 1664 French beer, and the food of energetic ordinary people. They are not sitting behind gorgeous arches, but wandering in the outdoor sky accompanied by fallen leaves.