Saturday, February 19, 2005

Mercado municipal

Eu já falei sobre o Mercadão de São Paulo e mais uma vez vou falar dele!
É um lugar incrível e eu gosto muito das coisas lá principalmente agora com a reforma (pois é, devia ser uma restauração mas não foi bem feita) tá melhor ainda. Muitos locais para comer, tomar umas ou só pareciar o local ;-). Essa construção foi projetada por Ramos de Azevedo e finalizada em 1933. Hoje é um dos mercados mais importantes do Brasil (o mais? provavelmente) com 14.000 visitantes/dia, 1.600 pessoas trabalhando e mais de 300 toneladas de alimentos vendidos por dia! Números incríveismas não tão incríveis quanto uma das comidas mais tradicionais de lá: O lanche de mortadela!
:) Dessa vez nào vou falar de história, arquitetura, etc, mas sobre um lanche! Mc Donald's e Burger King cuidado porque esse (pelo menos prá mim) [e muito melhor que qquer big wooper! (ok, é um bom lanche, melhor que qquer um do Mc Donalds, mas longe desse).
Ele tem mais ou menos 300g de mortadela fresquinha e rapidamente frita com queijo ou não, não importa, é delicioso! Um leve toque apimentado finaliza esse lanche incrível, que merece o título de lanche, já que esta palavra é um derivado do "lunch" em inglês).
E tudo isso por R$4,50! Quer mais?
E amanhã e' domingo! Grande dia para comer um desses ;-)

I've already talked about the Sao Paulo's public market, and once again I'll talk about it!
It's such amazing place, I really like all the things there, mainly now with the reformation (yeah, it should be a retoration, unfortunatelly it wans't good AT ALL) it's even better. Lot's of new places to eat, have a drink or just sight seeing ;). This building was designed by Ramos de Azevedo and was finished in 1933 now it's one of the most important public markets in Brazil (the most? probably) with 14.000 visitors/day, 1.600 workers and more than 300 tons of food sold per day, incredible numbers but not as incredible as one of the most tradicional foods there: the Mortadella's sandwich! (what's mortadella? look here and here)
:) This time I wont talk about about history, architecture or so, but about a sandwich! Mc Donalds and Burguer King, be careful cause this (at least for me) is much better than any big whooper! (ok, it's a nice sandwich, better than any one from Mc Donald, but far from this).
It seems to have around 300 g of fresh Mortadella quickly fried with cheese or not, no matters, is gorgeous! It's spicy touch finishes this incredible sandwich, wich could be called as a lunch (in Brazil the word for sandwich is "lanche" clearly derivated from the english "lunch").
And this costs less than US$2,00! What else do you want?
And tomorrow is Sunday! A good day to have one of these ;-)

Ps: E agora que percebi que a Eliane não saiu nas fotos (ela me acompanhou nesse delicioso passeio). Desculpe!
I've just noticed that Eliane isn't on the pics (she followed me on this delicious walk). Sorry!


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Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Miss Vancouver and my Friends

(Esse post não faz sentido em português, se você não entender algo, tente o tradutor do google aqui)


Eh!
1 year since I arrived in Vancouver....
How I miss that place!

Better:

I feel too much saudade of this place.

Specily about all the friends that I made there, some of them I couldn't see in fact, but was nice talking just by the phone (like Carolina and Lavonne).
To all of you that helped me (some of them will probably never see this post unfortunatelly) my most sincere thanks.
To the Morgans who make me felt like in my own home (maybe better :))
To my teacher Tim - what a funny guy (and the best teacher that I have ever had)
The bus driver (the girl, not the guy) with that lovely smile in those freezing mornings
To Darina - no words to describe her! She helped me so much. (Good luck in Calgaary)
Yusuke, Nahoko, Hiroki, kenji, Mika and some others - The funniest lunch time
My classmates (Form, Su-in, Ariana, Ayako, Scott, Kenichi, etc, etc) - Guys, I can't belive that I was the student of the month! Thanks
Yunsoo and her $5,00 umbrella - Amazing trip! I had an amazing time with you (be carefull! Don't try oppening windows thru the emergency system :))
Rodrigo - Always findding good places to go, and good beer partner

THANKS!