I had an intense, back-to-work Monday today at the office, punctuated only by a delicious vegetarian lunch at "Fate-Blessing Buddha." The restaurant is located near the Olympic stadium and i've never seen another westerner as a patron, other than those whom I'm eating with. We had imitation roasted pork, two types of miniature chicken cutlets in a delicious mock-oyster sauce, and very convincing beef ribs with thicker gluten/tofu mimicking rib bones. Also, thick egg and sour soup with imitation ham and seafood, and a stewed green vegetable with a hard to remember name. We got five large dishes, a pot of soup, and ice tea for roughly $24.
After a fast afternoon and early evening of work, I had dinner at Friends, a social enterprise that trains street youth to cook and run a fancy Tapas restaurant in Phnom Penh. Friends has marvelous spicy eggplant dip, and we devoured it before munching yogurt and mint cucumber salad, thick and creamy pumpkin soup, beef tacos, and baby bok choy. They also brought a terrific hummus dip on which we didn't order. I drank a fresh green apple juice smoothie.
I rounded out the day with bag of bilar (cars), a Swedish sugar candy I bought in Stockholm a few weeks ago.
Loisaida is a term derived from the Latino (and especially Puerto Rican) pronunciation of "Lower East Side", a neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City. Loisaida Avenue is now an alternate name for Avenue C in the Alphabet City neighborhood of New York City, whose population has largely been Hispanic (mainly Puerto Rican) since the late 1960s.
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