I had my first trip to Rio de Janeiro this past weekend. I have to say that it was pretty amazing and although we were only there for 48 hours, it will definitely be on our list of places to revisit.
Steve, as usual was working, but was able to have some R & R on Saturday evening and on Sunday morning – bliss.
On Saturday evening, a colleague of Steve’s had recommended that we to go to a restaurant called Platforma, where, after dinner they have a show to give one the “flavor of Rio” This basically comprised young, lithe and very scantily clad women in Carnival dress performing all sorts of Samba routines with equally lithe and often not so young men. It was fun and entertaining but for anyone that has seen the real thing, a poor second.
But that is not the reason for the blog. I could tell you about Copacabana beach, Ipanema and sipping cocktails at the Copacabana Palace hotel, but what really caught my attention was the menu at the Platforma restaurant. Steve and I were perusing the menu trying to decide what to eat, and I swear that what you are about to read is 100 % true.
I have no idea who did the translating of the menu but the following is faithfully reproduced from the menu.
Take your pick from
Barbeque Sausage with heifer unit
Rice with bacon, sausage and jerked
Little steak with sauce vine
Pasta Mas
Scliced filet with petit pour with sauve vine
Pallete of Lamb
Special cut of meat prime
Ramp
Ribow cow
Salmon with rice and sunsire
Rice with galic potato
Fried potato with onion, garlicano han
Codfish style hulk.
Well, we fell about laughing to the point that people were beginning to stare at us. Now I know that my Portuguese is still pretty bad but I think that even I could have done a better attempt at translating the menu than whoever did it.
Suffice it to say, we didn’t try the Heifer unit.
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