nasi goreng

or nazi goreng, as my dear german friend calls it. it's a bit of an inside joke because i threw a hissy fit and demanded to be placated with chinese food in porto last fall. such was the extent of my cravings! thankfully i've obliging friends and when we found a chinese restaurant, the menu said they served nazi goreng. which caused a ruckus among my little travel group because that literally translates to fried nazis. not like they would've known, but i wasted no time translating, hurhur.

anyway, back to nasi goreng in barca. family L had an asian food craving last night and thank goodness for common cravings! was near delirium when this baby was placed in front of me. haven't had local (sorry, i call it local based on what's local to me) food since leaving home 4 weeks ago and was feeling so deprived until the Ls came along :) also, i'd never seen such a big piece of keropok (prawn cracker) in my life! it was like keropok on crack. and the skewers of meat and plating were oh-so-fancy but nothing like a good ol' nasi goreng. incidentally, this plate of nasi goreng has obliterated all other how-much-would-you-pay-for-familiar-food records. in summer 08, it was EUR15 for pad thai gai in reyjkavik. in winter 09, A bought me a EUR20 plate of pad thai in sofo, stockholm, but last night, ohmyword, EUR27 for nasi goreng (price at zion road hawker centre, possibly EUR2, max.) but worth every cent.