German Adventures in Tex-Mex

Today was interesting. About half the people in the IES Berlin program showed up for an optional Stadtrundfahrt tour. That's when you get on the double decker bus, take a pair of headphones, and get driven around in a circle while your headphones tell you that "this building was heavily damaged during the second World War and it was rebuilt and now houses a sculpture museum." I think we were on it for like two hours. By the end, I was feeling a little motion sick, as well as dehydrated, hungry, and exhausted. In all seriousness, the Stadtrundfahrt really isn't worth the 17 euros per seat. It's much, much better to have a handful of sites in mind that you know you want to visit and then just walk around.

Then a few of us went to a restaurant called Tex Mex. (We went there because it happened to be there and we were desperate and didn't want to eat sushi, which was our other most immediate option. And for the record, the sushi place was selling curry, which is weird.) Overall, I liked it. We had nachos as a table, which were tortilla chips with actual cheese melted on top. We ordered salsa to go with it, and the salsa had a nice spice to it (I'd place it at around the level of a Pancheros mild if not slightly above, because for me it was a nice, doable heat and not overwhelming). The salsa was also strangely sweet and I think it had curry or cinnamon or something in it that was a little odd and not quite Mexican/Tex-Mex.

I had a burrito. It wasn't closed on either end, which I rather expected, and it was stuffed with rice, salsa, and ground beef. On the side was something they called "guacamole" and on the other side was a salad. The "guacamole" definitely contained avocado. It was separating a little bit, and it was separating into a darker green liquid and a lighter green solid. It tasted like avocado. Of all avocado products I've had in my life, it tasted most like the avocado banana smoothie I had over the summer. IE, it tasted vaguely like avocado, had no real strong flavor, and had a cooling / palate cleansing effect on my mouth. Chances are it was avocado flavored baby food. The biggest challenge of the meal was eating the entire hot (temperature) and slightly spicy burrito with only 200ml of beverage. The avocado and salad helped with that. There was some corn in the salad and I kept trying it, expecting it to taste good, and being disappointed. I really should know better by now.

Then I went home and now I'm watching X Factor.