Trying new things

Today's goal was to explore Davie in hopes of finding another butcher, but Davie seems mostly to be filled with restaurants. Trip was not altogether in vain though, I found a green grocers specialising in organic fruit and veg, and another good baker... but for the meat I had to take a detour to Capers on Robson.

I've noticed that my lunches tend to be comfort food, out of all the available ethnic alternatives I choose the most familiar pizza, salads, subs and wraps. So today I decided for the sake of it to choose something I've never tried before, and went for Vietnamese. My choice was spicy pork cake noodle soup and I just had to try what sounds really weird and all Vietnamese restaurants advertise here: bubble tea. The noodle soup was fantastic - as I took it as take away (I'm not big on restaurants, especially alone), the soup was in two containers: one with the spicy broth, the other one with pork cakes (minced pork with spices), raw onion thinly sliced (which cooked in the broth) and the noodles, which I could combine how I wanted. Very tasty and filling, certainly will be trying that restaurant again.

But the bubble tea, that was weird. Most of the flavours seemed to be dairy based - and I don't drink milk - so I chose passion fruit as that one wasn't. It turned out to be like a soft drink, with ice, yellow and very sweet, and in the bottom it had what's called tapioca perls, small pearls that pretty much looked and felt like frog spawn. Tasted mainly sweet, but kind of yucky. It was ok, but a little too sweet for my taste.

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