Colmar,Strasbourg, French food, French people

This is to continue my journey in France. better late than never he.
Don't know where to begin since I almost forgot everything. In Colmar and Strasbourg, there are not so much to tell. Museum, churches.

I like now to share a little bit about the food and the people.

Food
when talking about food, I should first mention the food that Mo has bought for our trip. Was always known as food provider for my friend when we traveled. At that time in Amsterdam didnt have the time to do that. Mo bought the food. Imagined that if I traveled with an Indonesian guy, he would not have the initiative to buy foods and drinks. He would let me buy the food and drinks. Most Indonesian men still think that grocery is women's task. So, I was lucky to have him.

Mo bought a strange bread. It was strange to me because it was hard, dark and high with protein. He said that its like a german bread. like failed bread but it was very nice. heheheh. it has almond and raisins in it. just eating one slice made me full. Its maybe german rye bread.

As far as I can remember the food in France was nice (compare to the Dutch food :-)). At least I still can taste the ingredients. The process of ordering the food was fun because Mo translated all the food names in the menu. I felt like a child eating with her loving father.

One time I was very hungry, really wanted to order some meat. Actually I didnt want to order meat since Mo is a vegetarian and if I ordered meat that meant I wouldn't be able to share food. Took the consequency, order the meat. Got two big slices of beef. One slice was ok, the last slice could not finish it. Would have been eat that up if I could eat it with our famous chili sauce, sambal ABC. heheheh. but he forbid me to pour that chili sauce to my steak. He said that it would insult the French people as they are very proud of their food. I didnt know about it hehe my chili sauce were safe in bag. hihi.
( didnt believe him at that time but some days ago I asked a lady who works at a Franch hotel, and she said its true. Hahaha. Sorry to Mo coz I didn't believe him. Don't trust anyone and don't listen to anyone easily hehe)

I wondered if French go on vacation to Indonesia. What would they react if they saw that almost all Indonesian people love to pour sambal, chili sauce on the food hihihi.

There I at typical French food or typical Alsatian food, tarte flambee. It is said tart in English but to me it looked like thin Italian pizza. Only the toppings that were a little bit different. I also found flambee with wine on it.

What I like about France is that in every 10 meters you will find a bakery. I remembered Henny, my colleague whenever I saw a bakery because Henny loves bread so much. The breads and pastries were very tempting.
seeing all those pastries made me hungry.
I at plain croissant. always love plain croissant. Some food tastes better in their original version like croissant, chips, and tompoes.

Tompoes is a Dutch word for vanilla slices cake. In French is it mille feuille. It’s a French classic dessert made with two or three puff pastry laid on top of each other, and in between consisting whipped cream. I am not a sweet person but tompoes is different. The cream is indeed sweat but the layers taste savour. so it neutralizes that sweetness of the cake. Very yummmmmmmmy. uuh just writing it down makes me hungry.

There is only one place in Jakarta that sell that cake, at Le Meridien Hotel. introduced and promoted tompoes to my colleagues. Now every time my office has an event at Le Meridien, had to compete with my colleagues to have that cake heheheh.

Now about the French cheese. Don't like cheese that much but to fulfill my gastronomic desire of course I had to taste it.Mo bought a small piece of the French cheese (in the picture, the white ones). Forgot the type of the cheese but didn't like it. It was stink. Maybe it's just because I was not used to the smell. Its ok. At least I already tried it.

One time we were already late for dinner so we didnt have many choice to eat out. we then ended up in a Libanon restaurant. I didn't know what to expect. Libanese food was ok, its almost the same as Asian food and they had rice, that is important :-). Mo said that I was a chauvinist because can not live without rice for more than one week. Forced him to exchange his rice with my food hahahaha. I am always addicted to rice.

Think its enough sharing about the food. Now about people I met there.
I had not so many chance interacting with the French. Its quite a pity I guess coz it would have been nicer if we can interact with the local.

French people are very good looking. The guys are beautiful with their dark hair and with a little bit dark skin. I think they are beautiful especially coz I dont like blond guy :-). The women are also beautiful. Even I as a woman admire their beauty. Its the form of their face and skin which is perfect. I don't know how God created them. It's beautiful.

Now about the people we met. There is one time when Mo asked an old lady about the parking place. She answered his question with cold and flat gesture. not smiling at all. Was very surprised to see that. I wouldn't find that here in Indonesia. Here people will at least smile at you at the end of the conversation even if you are a stranger on street asking about direction.
It is maybe because of the weather. Indonesians and other Asians are more friendly because the sun shines here almost the whole year. The sun brings smile to our faces and eventually it effects our personality.

One time in Ribeauville I had to buy socks somewhere. Mo was not there coz he had to bring something back to the car. So I was left alone. Didn't speak any french at all. Came into a store, the store lady was asking what I was looking for. Asked her first if she speaks english. she said only a little. Said that I was looking for thick socks. Could see that she felt bad and started a little bit panick coz she doesnt have the socks I wanted and she couldn't explain it in english where I could find them. smiled at her, touched her back gently and said it's ok, I'll find them myself. Smile works all the time.

Another time we were late for dinner, we entered in a restaurant that was closed The guy of that restaurant let us know which restaurant that still open even though we were not asking for that. We thanked him and gave him a big smile. On the next day, we were passing through his restaurant. The man saw us and called us. He asked us to come by to his restaurant. We were very surprised that he still remembered us.

Before traveled to the Netherlands, was kind of worry where to live in the Netherlands. talked to a cousin about it. She said, dont worry, your father is always nice to other people so, you would be just fine there, you will have a place to stay and there will be someone who takes good care of you. She was right. I found a comfort place in the Netherlands and friends who took good care of me. What you give out, will come back to you.

ps: the food pictures were taken from the internet