Duck in France

You know what is awesome? Duck. It is one of the best things about living in France. You can even get duck at the cafeteria, and it's still special and delicious, despite being in a cafeteria. So of course, when you get it at a real restaurant, it's pretty much heaven on a plate.

Tonight we had dinner at my favorite restaurant in Poitiers, La Serrurerie. Well, it's pretty much the only restaurant I've been to here that's not 4 euro kebab. Anyway, dinner tonight. It totally blew my mind. There were duck steaks with potatoes, pumpkin, chestnuts, and some sort of a brown, tangy sauce with crisped basil on top. Then for dessert I got vanilla ice cream, just because I wanted to see what vanilla ice cream was like in France, and let me tell you - even the vanilla ice cream is obscenely good. It was so strong and so smooth, like, like, I don't know, like what gold would taste like if it was ice cream and not metal. Then we got hot chocolate and mulled wine. It was funny because we were there with the program director people who were visiting from Oregon and they didn't understand the 4-hour dinner thing and got up to leave while we were still drinking our drinks. We were like, "What, it's only 10 o' clock!" There was also some nummy wine with the meal. I found out here that I do like wine after all. It is very good with dinner. For a start.

When I got home I was so happy about dinner that I danced around in my dorm room. We're going back to that restaurant next weekend for somebody's birthday. Hell yes.