Pickle Deli Square

Mar 16

Mar 16 Best of Buenos Aires Eats: food roundup

#1 best meal: The steak here is all it's cracked up to be. Everyone says that Argentina is all about the beef, and beef is truly the one meal that stands out the most...

Mar 16

Mar 16 I could live here: Buenos Aires

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After almost nine full days in Buenos Aires, I left town for my next stop Iguazu Falls. I was really sad to leave, because I've grown to really love Buenos Aires, and can definitely feel like I could live here. Here are just a few reasons...

Mar 14
Mar 14 Back to school: Spanish class in Buenos Aires

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Mar 14

Mar 14 Colonia day trip: the town itself

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Colonia really reminded me of Hoi An in Vietnam. Both are Unesco World Heritage sites, both are by the water, both have low, historic buildings, both have tourist-to-local ratios of 10:1...

Mar 14

Mar 14 Colonia day trip: package tour

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I had been wanting to take a day trip from Buenos Aires to Uruguay to check out the Unesco World Heritage city, Colonia...

Mar 13

Mar 13 How to drink mate

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Mate (mah-tay) is one of those things everyone has to try when visiting Argentina. It's a traditional drink, that my Spanish teacher says is a communal activity - you have friends over, and pour some water, a friend drinks some, you pour some more water and give the cup to the next person, etc. (sort of a personal hygiene nightmare for me, but that's just me)...

Mar 13

Mar 13 I am getting tired of dulce de leche, oh no!

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I would have never thought I would get tired of dulce de leche...

Mar 13

Mar 13 Labelling empanadas

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I've had a chance to try empanadas a few times so far, and the last couple of times, I noticed that some places have a system for labelling their empanadas by flavor.

Mar 12

Mar 12 Cool restaurant, but what's going on?

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Last night I went to a restaurant I scoped out my first night here - even at 10 and 11pm, it was lively and full of people. Plaza Asturias on Avenida de Mayo.

Mar 11
Mar 11 Cute Style BA

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Mar 10

Mar 10 Snack-y food in Buenos Aires

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I've mentioned before that my favorite type of food has got to be casual snack-y food, like dim sum, samosas, things like that. So not surprisingly, I've still not had the Argentinian steak dinner but have had a lot of other casual eats.

Mar 10

Mar 10 Signs in Buenos Aires

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I find that the street signs in Buenos Aires are a lot more pregnant with narrative, compared to the ones I see in the US...

Mar 9

Mar 9 Close-up of Chicken toy

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Upon request, a close-up photo of the chicken toy...

Mar 8

Mar 8 Street Market in San Telmo

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Today I had planned on going to Colonia, Uruguay for a day trip, but unfortunately the return ferry was fully booked! I knew there was a Sunday market in the San Telmo neighborhood, so I went to check that out instead...

Mar 8

Mar 8 Soaked!

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After Galerias Pacifico, I went over to the waterfront where there's Resavera Ecologico Costanera sur, a nature preserve that's sort of marshy and is supposed to have a lot of different birds living in it or flying through it...

Mar 8

Mar 8 I can read Spanish (art-speak)!

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When I realized that art-speak is truly universal...

Mar 7

Mar 7 First Impressions: Buenos Aires

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Buenos Aires really reminds me of traveling in Asia's developing nations... I know it must be some sort of travel writing no-no to do this sort of compare/contrast exercise, but I guess for me, it really put me at ease since BA seems quite familiar already...