Key...money...CLUTCH

My first gogoasa

Saturday afternoon we walked the streets of Bucharest again. I decided to try one of the supposedly popular gogoasa (pronounced gogosh) from a street vendor. My choices were cheese, chocolate or plain, so thinking it might be like the yummy Entemann’s cheese danish back home, I opted for cheese. Huge, and I mean GINORMOUS mistake. Speaking of ginormous, you should have seen the dog we saw later on, but I’ll get to that some other time. Anyway, I had eaten the top and it tasted pretty good, but I hadn’t got to the cheese filling yet. I asked Marc if he wanted to try it out and he took a decent sized bite, cheese and all. The look on his face should have told me that it wasn’t going to be pretty, but I took another whopping bite out of this so called donut-like delicacy. EW. It was super salty and totally gross. Good thing Marya got the yummy chocolate one so we know what to get next time. A gogoasa and coffee only costs 20,000 lei which is approximately $0.75. Amazing.

After sightseeing in the Piata Revolutiei, we popped into the Bistro Tormen for some quick eats. However, we’ve discovered that quick eats don’t really exist. A meal takes at least an hour everywhere, if not three.

After a few hours of down time back at the apartment, we attempted unsuccessfully to catch a movie. Apparently you have to arrive super early to get tickets for anything. Yes Danielle, even earlier than I normally like to be there. We ended up following Marc's lead to the Amsterdam Cafe, a place we had read about in some guide books. All I can say is excellent food, faster than "normal" service, casual atmosphere, not overly smoky, and a menu entirely in English. This place was key. This place was money. This place was...CLUTCH. The wine was tasty so we took a bottle to go and went home to try and watch to some English TV. No success. I started feeling ill and knew I was going to get sick. Yes Danielle, I chummed. I think those paprika psuedo-fries really just didn't agree with me. I swear, it wasn't the alcohol, but Dan, you can chalk this one up however you like. Do I still hold the title? ;-)
(most chums in 24 yrs)