Oh yes, I just had to go to Paris during my semester abroad. How could I resist? It's just a short plane ride away and it is just so incredibly cheap to get there! (Thank you Ryan Air!)
I got in around lunch time, so I went to a simple somewhat hole in the wall Japanese restaurant for a quick bite. I did miss Asian food terribly and I thought Japanese food would do its job. I ordered salmon chirashi. It was exactly what I was looking for. The rice was cooked well, well seasoned, the salmon was fresh. Simple, straight-forward and filling.
Afterwards, I wandered around some French department stores, trying out macarons at Pierre Herme and just breathing in the Parisian air.
Here are a couple pictures that I snagged of Pierre Herme. I will probably go on more about this later, but I do think that his is my favorite macaron place of the three that I have tried. (And boy, all three are deemed epic by many people)
Then, I headed over to the hostel to meet up with Sami who I haven't seen in TOO LONG. Only then could my trip to Paris truly begin!
We headed over to Cinq-Mars, recommended to us by Gwenyth Paltrow's blog, for our first French fair. And boy, was the food amazing!
Sami's first foie gras experience!
My appetizer-scallop carpaccio. It was perfect--fresh, sweet, with a bit of acid from the lime!
Sami's main course: TUNA!
My main course: veal ribs with mushroom cream sauce on a bed of veggies. Yes, my scallop carpaccio was good. But this dish, my friends, was unbelievable. The veal was the most tender veal I have had in my life time. The mushroom cream sauce was just to die for and the veggies were roasted perfectly. It was a rustic meal that was elevated into perfection. Of course, a glass of Rose didn't hurt either!
After getting food-drunk (we were quite giddy from the delicious food and just the fact that we were in Paris) we headed to our hostel and fell fast asleep!
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