Having spent in BA a month, I learned a lot about what typical Argentinian is.
Everybody knows that no visit to Argentina can pass without steak and wine. Actually, Argentinians prefer asado (name of barbecue technique, so asado can be of ribs, meat, sausages (chorizos, morcilla (blood saugage)), etc) in their parillas (steak houses) to my favorite bife de lomo (filet mignon).
Argentinians are crazy about everything dulce de leche (slowly heated sweetened milk aka сгуженка in Russian). Dulce de leche is present in the majority of desserts, cakes and ice creams flavors. Argentinian ice cream deserves a separate entry in this blog, it is so good. Dozens of flavors are listed on the board in numerous ice cream parlors and one can only guess how a poor girl can choose two flavors from this variety. You cannot see the actual ice cream like in Brazil...
Here is an example of a small ice cream shop:
In the coffee shop Argentinians invented submarino (hot chocolate drink) - hot milk served in a tall glass comes with a piece of chocolate that you stir in the glass.
A day starts and breaks (a meal between lunch and dinner is called "merienda") with cafe con leche (coffee with milk) and medialunas (croissants) of three types - de manteca (butter), de grasa (literally fat, thinner in shape then de manteca ones), de manteca rellenas (with a filling? never tried). Medialunas are smaller than croissants in France and taste differently, but the shape is the same (half of the moon).
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The rest of the day Argentinians drink mate (herbal tea), which is art in itself foreign to me as I do not like green tea.
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