Chinese food in Chile. I've heard that it is pretty bad. On Sundays, nothing in Chile is open. Last Sunday there was no food in the house. Out I went in a desperate search for sustenance. All I wanted was an empanada. You'd think that wouldn't be too hard to find. Wrong. Everything was closed... except for a Chinese restaurant. In the US, you can always count on finding an open Chinese take out place when everything else is closed, like on Christmas day or in the middle of a deathly ice storm. Sundays in Chile have a similar post-apocalyptic feel and apparently, Chinese restaurants are into that kind of thing. So, I ate there and it was ok.
Sometimes wontons look like this....
or this....
but in Chile they look like this.
I have been told that this is the universal Chilean interpretation of a wanton. See that little folded over corner at the top? There is actually a tiny piece of meat in there! For as strange as they appear, they are actually not that bad. Unfortunately, the soy sauce on the table must have been watered down because it tasted like.... well, water. They would have been better with some condiments. For a Sunday, not that bad.
Besos,
Allie
3 comments:
HHAhah YES! In Santiago we were living next to a Chinese restaurant and we ordered wontons, but when we got those things we had no idea they were the wontons. we actually thought it was some version or free chips (which was surprising enough, but you can tell they looked so far from wontons that we thought something was FREE in chile instead)
Anyway the part with the meat, i thought it was a huge coincidence that they were sharing a pan with the meat and a similar sized chunk had gotten stuck to all three of my chips.
They kind of look like another Chinese food item, but definitely not wontons. If they had a shrimp inside, Chileans would be on to something! I am actually missing aji right now, I wish I had picked up a bottle before I left..
Seba loves those things. I don't mind them...but I'm always disappointed that they're not an actual variation of the kind I know and love.
I had a wonton soup one time at a Chinese place in Santiago. It was like drinking a bowl of liquid MSG with the raw version of the kind you're holding in the picture. Not yummy.
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