Dining unusual…
Chile, Cruises, Maldives, Restaurants, Travel May 21st, 2007
Ithaa, an Undersea Restaurant, is real, albeit unusual. It is one of the restuarants you can choose at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa Rangali Island. I start this entry by stating the restaurant is real because when I received an email with photos of the restaurant, I thought it was a hoax, a digitally created urban legend. However, after searching snopes.com (where I often check the “absolutely true—I swear it!” emails I often read which are, in fact, absolutely untrue!), I discovered, Ithaa (pronounced eet-ha) exists! As much as I am dying to sample the wonderful resorts of the Maldives, this “trendy” attraction doesn’t make it to my “must see and do” list—too much of man manipulating nature in an area where human intervention is generally minimal. So there!
My most unique dining experience was probably dinner at Jules Verne in the Eiffel Tower; second would be the chicken soup I attempted to eat while the Silver Cloud navigated the Chilean fjords in 20++ feet swells Thanksgiving night, 1997. And the most unusual place you’ve eaten is?
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May 21st, 2007 at 2:09 pm
My most memorable meal was eating at an amazing vegetarian restaurant in Chaing Mai, Thailand, where not only the food was amazing, the service was impecable. I wish I could remember the name.
Good for you and Michael to plan a couples trip 2008…I do plan to safari one day and for now, live vicariously through you!
XXOO
Kathy
May 21st, 2007 at 2:58 pm
1. When visiting a former Iraqi Army Commander at his villiage in Manaraha al Shabek. It was Ramadan – so he and his family were not eating. But I helped them prepare the lamb and vegetables they had prepared for us as a token of thanks, and dined on the best lamb, hummus, fire-roased vegetables, liver kebabs and chicken I have EVER had.
2. On a boat cruise on the Persian Gulf in Qatar…same thing: lamb, hummus, vegetables, basmati rice. All coupled with swimming in the Persian Gulf and working on a tan!
Kind of makes me want to go back. Sort of.
May 21st, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Thibideaux La. is the self proclaimed Cajun capitol. A little mom and pop seafood joint offered a comfort food extraordinaire. Hubby caught the shrimp and fish around 4a.m. and his wife cooked up the stuff at noon. I meal to behold!
May 28th, 2007 at 1:01 am
When in Rome …..
Richard and I were in Budapest (his third time, my first) and he was excited to show me the Great Synagogue and other historical landmarks as his ancestors (and not in the too-distant past) were Hungarian Jews who lived in and around Budapest. I was excited to explore the ethnic cuisine and learn the wonders of real paprika …. but my first meal was at a wonderful, bona fide Italian restaurant, on the Pest side, not far from the old Jewish quarters. Its name was Fausto’s, and the food was authentic Italian, with not a bit of Hungarian on it.