For anyone who knows us, food is clearly one of the first adventures we had to take when we arrived. While most places are closed on Sundays, there was a nice little restaurant and bar called Paradox that we stumbled upon near the train station that happened to be open! We're not going to lie...we were a little (or a lot) nervous about our first restaurant experience. Knowing us, we'd order some weird fish or offend the waitress in some way! As it turns out, pointing and talking in English actually works in our town. Thank goodness. Our waitress picked up pretty quickly on the fact that we knew absolutely no Germany except for "danke" (that's thank you for anyone who didn't know...we learned on the plane).
We ended up going big (because go big or go home right?) and ordered schnitzel, which is a common dish here. Alex got plain schnitzel, or weiner schnitzel, and I obviously had to get something smothered in cheese, aka schnitzel parmigiano (pictured above). We were a little worried but it honestly ended up tasting a lot like chicken parmesan with thicker noodles! Of course, with dinner there must be drinks right? Well, of course there was coca cola light involved (aka diet coke, aka God's gift to earth) and then there was beer. If anyone is wondering...beer is cheaper than water here so "prost" to that right?!
Monday we were able to make our way to two different grocery stores to scope everything out. We aren't able to get on base for another week or so, which means we needed some food to hold us over for the time being. Proudly, we got plenty of food and only spent 28 euro which is about $38. The Ecenter (first stop) was huge. Literally anything we could imagine needing was at this store and to our surprise almost none of it was refrigerated...which is actually good seeing as we blew a fuse in our kitchen and currently don't have either refrigerator (snaps to us, we know). In general, all the packaging is smaller here but everything is pretty much the same otherwise. Minus the whole "we have higher standards for food than you" deal. Some things say "tastes American"...LOL good advertising...more like "lower quality but...America"! Don't worry, we were sure the buy the "American" peanut butter (creamy not crunchy) so we won't be starving anytime soon.
Off to make some tea (yay caffeine) and then off to Heidelberg to ring in the New Year! On that note, enjoy and Prosit Neujahr!
We ended up going big (because go big or go home right?) and ordered schnitzel, which is a common dish here. Alex got plain schnitzel, or weiner schnitzel, and I obviously had to get something smothered in cheese, aka schnitzel parmigiano (pictured above). We were a little worried but it honestly ended up tasting a lot like chicken parmesan with thicker noodles! Of course, with dinner there must be drinks right? Well, of course there was coca cola light involved (aka diet coke, aka God's gift to earth) and then there was beer. If anyone is wondering...beer is cheaper than water here so "prost" to that right?!
Monday we were able to make our way to two different grocery stores to scope everything out. We aren't able to get on base for another week or so, which means we needed some food to hold us over for the time being. Proudly, we got plenty of food and only spent 28 euro which is about $38. The Ecenter (first stop) was huge. Literally anything we could imagine needing was at this store and to our surprise almost none of it was refrigerated...which is actually good seeing as we blew a fuse in our kitchen and currently don't have either refrigerator (snaps to us, we know). In general, all the packaging is smaller here but everything is pretty much the same otherwise. Minus the whole "we have higher standards for food than you" deal. Some things say "tastes American"...LOL good advertising...more like "lower quality but...America"! Don't worry, we were sure the buy the "American" peanut butter (creamy not crunchy) so we won't be starving anytime soon.
Off to make some tea (yay caffeine) and then off to Heidelberg to ring in the New Year! On that note, enjoy and Prosit Neujahr!
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