Last Saturday I was on Budapest again. I miss that city all the times and it's a tradition now that I visit the capital in December anything would happen. I love those lights on the main streets and there are tonnes of tourists. Well, at least they are strangers not acquaintances I want to avoid because of bad memories or drunken neighbours or other annoying people like in Veszprém. I hate being known here, I mean too many familiar faces whom knew me since I was little and whom I dislike but they like me of course I just don't know why I'm not even smiling when I meet them… anyway, so Budapest is another kind of thing to me. Tourists and travellers from different foreign countries are cheering in one place, so I can merge into the mass without communicating anyone… Well on Sunday I was a tiny bit depressed, not only because I had to go home but from the too much people… I can't help it, probably I have some social anxiety… but nevermind, my bunny was worst than me ever. Once we brought her out to a sunny place with fresh green grass, flowers, chirping birds and some people around in Tihany. I thought after our panel building she will enjoy a natural, sunny place like every normal bunny [due to we have no garden and there are too much dogs on the streets...]. I was wrong. After we arrived home she spent the rest of the day in a corner with face against the wall and kept murmurring anytime I want to fondle her… Poor thing. She was just like her mother indeed… Sunlight, people... ~Eww Hahahha So I behaved the same way on Sunday. I just kept staring my computer and grumped about that I had to be among too much people… Unbelievable… Sometimes I no need for anybody to annoy me, I'm able to annoying myself… But life is full of challenges we have to face it. My biggest was to be a McDonald's cashier with this antisocial attitude of mine… now that was something. Every second customer complained what's wrong with me and that my smile is not honest at all [as if I cared in that place]. Then they put me into the kitchen, what was much more worse [to them]. No surprise they fired me after 3 looooong months and I just jumped for joy to leave and hailed joblessness as an old friend. What I regret that I did not tell the boss what I actually thought about his whole f. restaurant like Christina Applegate did in the Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead:
[Mr. Egg] How's the scrubba-dub-dubbing going? You're almost doing that correctly... but you forgot one very big thing.
[Sue Ellen] Not enough cleanser?
[Mr. Egg] Nope. Forgot to put on a happy face. Next, you get to scrape the spitballs off the drive-through window... with a really fun squeegee!
[Sue Ellen] Look, Mr. Egg. Finish the Happy Fat vats yourself.
But where was I…
So around the Holidays Budapest is also swimming in cozy lights. The air is filled with the smell of the mulled wine and other torturing sweet scents. Well, the shop windows are extra kitchy in this time of the year but the hell with it once in a year I bear it…
[Mr. Egg] How's the scrubba-dub-dubbing going? You're almost doing that correctly... but you forgot one very big thing.
[Sue Ellen] Not enough cleanser?
[Mr. Egg] Nope. Forgot to put on a happy face. Next, you get to scrape the spitballs off the drive-through window... with a really fun squeegee!
[Sue Ellen] Look, Mr. Egg. Finish the Happy Fat vats yourself.
But where was I…
So around the Holidays Budapest is also swimming in cozy lights. The air is filled with the smell of the mulled wine and other torturing sweet scents. Well, the shop windows are extra kitchy in this time of the year but the hell with it once in a year I bear it…
Why piglets? But they are cute
Another Nutcracker before one of my favourite shop. This is a classical music and ballet related gift shop on Váci Street.
About lunchtime...
I tried out two new places.
I tried out two new places.
We Hungarians are fond of soups and broths and everything between. So some young fellows thought they can make a good business with only selling soup. They thought well. I don't know which was the first 'soup bar' but there are more then 10 now accross the city. You can find them near to universities and colleges, so the hungry students always can eat something cheap, hot, fresh and tasty thing in their breaks. Some bars sells sandwiches and sweets beside the soups. These are small shops, so there is no place to sit down, but usually there are some smaller stalls before the bars. The daily menus - among others - always contains one or two traditional Hungarian soups or broths.
I tried out one of the popular place simply called 'Leves.' [Soup.] under 14 Vámház boulevard. I chose the Spicy Malaysian Chicken Soup with sippet. It was ~Mmmmmm
I tried out one of the popular place simply called 'Leves.' [Soup.] under 14 Vámház boulevard. I chose the Spicy Malaysian Chicken Soup with sippet. It was ~Mmmmmm
I chose this Asian style soup, because I prefer most of the Hungarian soups as I make at home. For example I happily eat Goulash soup anywhere but if it comes to Chicken soup or Fisherman's soup I only like eat my family version /indicative mood/. Haha But for a foreigner tourist these soup bars are great opportunities to taste many kind of traditional Hungarian soups or anything for half-price as in a restaurant.
Next station was to us [friend and I] the place called 'Paneer' under 53 Király street. No, this is not an Indian restaurant, although it's a vegan place and everything around the cheese. It's a Hungarian street food bistro.
You can choose from the popular cheeses [Cheddar, Ementaler, Camembert and Trappist], various side dishes and sauces or there are various cheeseburgers as well. They bread or grill the chosen cheese or what just you want. Daily desserts from cream cheese and there are various creamy-cheesy soups as well on the menu. Sadly there wasn't any lactose-free cheese, but I felt I must try out this place anyhow…
You can choose from the popular cheeses [Cheddar, Ementaler, Camembert and Trappist], various side dishes and sauces or there are various cheeseburgers as well. They bread or grill the chosen cheese or what just you want. Daily desserts from cream cheese and there are various creamy-cheesy soups as well on the menu. Sadly there wasn't any lactose-free cheese, but I felt I must try out this place anyhow…
My friend chose a Cheddar cheeseburger [in homemade ciabatta] with fries and barbecue sauce while I chose the classical combo: breaded cheese [smoked Trappist] with salad and – homemade - blueberry jam. Their bread is homemade as well. We call the bread [to cover meat or cheese] as 'panír', yeah probably that's got the idea to name the place like that.
I wanted to try out their daily dessert what was Oreo-Mascarpone cake, but I was totally full, due to I ate a rich soup before [and the leftover fries from my friend's plate…].
Nice and clean place! You can eat as much cheese as you desire in any form without feel yourself a mouse. Hahaha
I made some videos after dark
The background music is "Spiritual State" by the late Japanese instrumental hip hop artist, Nujabes.
Good Day!/Szép napot! ✌
