Dois pedaços por favor!

So I have a new obsession: "stuff your face Mondays." It's the only evening during the week that Will doesn't have school, so today, like we did last Monday, we went to the Praia de Belas mall in Porto Alegre for rodízio (all you can eat) at Pizza Hut.

Here's how it works: the waiters/waitresses bring around different kinds of pizza and you them "yes" or "no" (well... sim o não). Usually it's a little aggravating at first because most of the pizza has meat on it (this is the part where Will's stuffing his face and laughing at me and I start the scoreboard: 0 to 1, 0 to 3, 0 to 5... until finally a non-meat pizza comes by and I get in on the gluttonous action.

Tonight I was lucky because suddenly the pizzas coming out were almost all meatless (when they finally come without meat I ask for two slices: dois pedaços por favor!). I ate pizza with corn, pizza with catupiry cheese, mozzarella pizza, pizza Margherita, a bunch of garlic and olive oil pizza, pizza with broccoli, four cheese pizza, and a few other kinds. At that point we decided to stop eating dinner pizza and begin eating dessert pizza. This is the great thing about Brazilian Pizza Hut... dessert pizza! It's sort of a normal pizza crust with lots of great stuff on it. We had pizza with condensed milk and pineapple (tropicana), pizza with doce de leite, pizza with chocolate and chocolate sprinkles, pizza with guava and pizza with chocolate and coconut (prestígio).

Needless to say they just about had to roll us out of there...

The best part? It only cost R$52 for 2 people including a couple of sodas and tip. That's less than US$32 (less than $16 each), which is amazing for the sheer quantity of food we consumed.

Disgusting? Maybe. Satisfying? Unbelievably so!

Finally updated

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Best restaurant... ever!

I totally love Prato Verde... it's without a doubt my favorite restaurant in Porto Alegre.

First of all it's really inexpensive... it's an all-you-can-eat buffet for only R$9.50 (US $5.73).

It's also vegetarian... not vegan, but that's not a problem for me. =)

The only thing is that it's kind of a pain to find parking nearby, but luckily it was nice out so a little walk wasn't a bad thing.

Today Will and I enjoyed cheese soufflé, spaghetti with TVP, tempura-ish cauliflower, rice and beans, potatoes in some sort of sauce (I really have no idea but it was great), these long things reminiscent of a vegetable pot pie, pineapple juice, and bananas with whipped cream and this great chocolate mousse-ish pie for dessert... not to mention the extensive array of salad and fruit items that were available.

I definitely recommend this restaurant and plan to eat there as much as possible while I'm in Porto Alegre!

Then and now

I was just looking back on this blog and I had to laugh when I read "As if the dollar wasn't weak enough already" (compared to the Euro). I looked it up and the Euro was trading at $1.27 in March of 2005 when I wrote that. Right now it's $1.57, which is a few cents better than last month when it was around $1.60. Hmmm... let's see what gas prices were then and now...

Okay in March 2005 gas in Honolulu averaged $2.40/gal compared to $3.95/gal (which isn't SO bad compared to the national average of $3.91/gal and how much higher gas prices usually are in Hawaii compared to the U.S. mainland... (I got those stats from http://honolulugasprices.com)

Just a thought... =)

Blog Resurrection

It's been years... should I revisit this blog or blog on myspace or facebook? I'd like to streamline and condense a bit but it seems a bit complicated... maybe I'll think about it for a while...