Wednesday 18 February 2009

21st - 26th Sept 2008 Rome, Italy - Part 5

Italian Pizza and Pasta

Sliced pizza is a good choice if you are on a smaller budget. You just have to choose the pizza flavor and agree on how big-a-slice you want. The pizza will be weigh and you just pay the price and have it on-the-go, and they are served on a piece of paper normally. But if you ordered a pizza in a restaurant, they usually come in quite a big size and thin-crust. There are so many varieties of pizza toppings to choose from and they are yummy.

Pasta here is normally a little too dry to my likings. The sauce is just enough to cover the spaghetti noodle so sometimes I could only taste the noodle and not the sauce after a few chew. It is the same throughout our trip in Italy until I had seafood spaghetti in Venice where the seafood is extremely fresh and there’s a lot of sauce. Then we noticed that the restaurant was operated by Chinese, so I concluded that the foreigners preferred pasta dry while the Chinese like it wet.

I had 2 different servings of lasagna in Italy and I gave up after that because both servings taste the same and they are too salty. The taste reminded me of a type of minced meat can food in Malaysia...


Tiramisu

Belinda found a very good café restaurant while surfing online one night called Pompi, near Re di Roma station in southern Rome, claiming to be the best tiramisu in Rome, so we decided to pay it a visit. I am really glad we did coz the tiramisu are so good that we went back the second day. It is mostly frequented by the young locals. They also have a huge array of desserts other than tiramisu. There are two options for the tiramisu: the traditional one, with chocolate, and the one with strawberry. If you go there around evening time, you could also take up their pasta buffet offer which is quite worth it. You can choose any drink from their drink menu and enjoy the various dishes from the buffet table. I had Whisky coffee while Bel had Rum Coffee and both are really strong. The tiramisu are really yummy and the cream tasted really fresh.

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