Monday, March 15, 2010

It was Saturday now and as it was a weekend, everybody was up for a big night. The other day when I met up with my friends from Valdivia we had all arranged to meet up again and go to a bar/restaurant called La Piojera, it was avery traditional Chilean restaurant and bar that dishes from times of old like rolled loin of pork with boiled potatoes, boiled leg of pork, some beef dishes and some more sandwiches. They also served a very famous drink in Santiago called a terramoto, earthquake, which wasn't in the best of tastes but it was the name of the drink after all. The drink consisted of I'm told by different sources that its either rum and wine with a dollop of pineapple ice cream or its pisco and wine with a dollop of pineapple ice cream. All I can say is that the initial taste is pretty foul, you can taste the really bad wine and the strong alcohol from whatever spirit used and the ice cream just floats on the top. When you mix it all up and the ice cream melts it tastes like a sweet alcoholic pineapple milk shake. I had been warned that these get you very drunk, a story of someone who claimed to be able to handle his drink had tree of them and was completely drunk off his face. I was hungry so I got some of the food, I tried half and half of the two sandwiches they had, one was beef and one was the rolled loin of pork. They were both very good and the aji was amazing, it was like a cross between a Chilena, the traditional Chilean relish (onion, tomato and coriander) and a normal aji sauce, it gave the dish another dimension and improved the flavour even more. In my opinion the rolled loin of pork was a far superior sandwich when compared to the beef one, if I was hungrier and was willing to spend more money on food then I would definitely have had another one.

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