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There are a couple of those I know: - White sangria. "Sangria" literally means "bloodletting", and has been traditionally made from red wine. But white sangria
by franciscop 7y ago
There are a couple of those I know:
- White sangria. "Sangria" literally means "bloodletting", and has been traditionally made from red wine. But white sangria has become popular overseas and with tourists, and now many Spanish restaurants also offer white sangria.
- Eating paella at night. Traditionally in Valencia, the paella was to be eaten only at lunch time and never at dinner time. This is because it's rice-based, so it's too heavy to go to sleep afterwards and dinner time is fairly late. But a lot of tourists want to eat it at night, so restaurants serve it anytime. There's even light joking among locals when seeing someone eating paella at night "I'm sure they are tourists".
I'd guess countries where there's a lot of tourism have a lot more of this pizza effect than others. The inverse would be "Yoshoku" in Japanese, which is heavily adapting the foreign dishes to local tastes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dshoku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dshoku
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoYoshoku has now been exported outside Japan and is quite popular in eg Singapore. So you can dig into a curry at Ma Maison, a popular yoshoku chain which has a French name for no obvious reason, and contemplate that you're eating a Singaporean version of a Japanese mutation of a British navy stew inspired by Indian curry. Looking forward to somebody opening a yoshoku restaurant in India and completing the circle! http://www.ma-maison.sg/ http://www.ma-maison.sg/
- duckfruit 7y agoWell, you're in luck! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-23/the-japanese-plan-to-sell-curry-to-india-had-an-unlikely-source https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-23/the-japan...
- IanCal 7y ago> it's too heavy to go to sleep afterwards I find this very interesting as I'd class heavy meals as exactly the kind of thing that would leave you lethargic and sleepy after eating.
- analog31 7y agoIndeed, but then at least in my experience, the quality of sleep is terrible.
- peterburkimsher 7y agoI find it interesting because I thought people have a siesta after lunch.
- plafl 7y agoLot of people avoid it precisely because of indigestion. The really good siesta is before lunch.
- Mirioron 7y agoIf eaten too much then heavy foods can cause a stomach ache if you lie down soon after eating. If you remain standing or sitting and do things then you might not even notice it.
- chrisweekly 7y agoPersonal anecdote: in Barcelona circa 1997, paella for (absurdly late) dinner was not strictly a tourist thing.
- franciscop 7y agoYup, I believe in the rest of Spain it's any time. Also it's not a strict rule in Valencia or anything, it's just a common recommendation: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3305118/0/protocolo-comer-paella/ https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3305118/0/protocolo-comer-p...