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I visited Valparaíso, the charming port city on Chile’s coast when living in the country’s capital Santiago. It’s a bit over 1 hour by car from Santiago, and there are plenty of public buses connecting the 2 cities as well.

Valparaíso boasts colorful houses along the hills and even more coloful graffiti all over the house walls. :) It’s called Chile’s Cultural Capital due to its booming art and culture scene. It’s great fun to take the steep funiculars to those hilltops, where you can visit the abundant beautiful architectures and artsy shops. Along your ride, you also get fantastic views of the buildings, the hills, the port and the vast Pacific ocean.

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瓦尔帕莱索是个多姿多彩、很有味道的嬉皮小城，被称为智利的“文化之都”。位于智利首都圣地亚哥以西的太平洋沿岸，从首都出发的话，自驾一个小时多一点，坐大巴近两个小时。这里跟大家分享的是我坐缆车上山后俯瞰到的港口景色。

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In this post, I’m showing you the views of the port I got after ascending to high up by a funicular. Valparaíso’s port is divided into ten sites, and the last two include a dock and are used as public walks and cruise passenger terminal. As a main container and passenger port in the country, it transfers 10 million tons each year, and serves about 50 cruises.

The city’s port received a large number of immigrants, primarily from Europe from 1848 till 1914. As a result, neighbourhoods of different styles were built on Valparaíso’s hillsides. Among these Historic Districts, the most prominant ones are legacies by the British, Germans, and Italians. Nowadays, they are preserved as “Zonas Típicas”.

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Hello everyone! Here’s my 3rd entry to the Opposing Beauty photo contest by @ntopaz. It was during a business trip in Chile when it’s raining heavily.

The rain drops kept hitting the car window, and I found some interesting contrasts and textures in the frame - the soft fragile flowing rain water VS. the hard firm fixed window glass. So I took out my phone and shot this picture from outside. :)

这张照片用来参加ntopaz“对比”主题的摄影活动。当时在智利南部出差，途中狂风大作，暴雨如注，雨点不停地狠狠敲击车窗。轻缓流动的水珠和坚硬厚实的玻璃形成有趣的对比，我就掏出手机拍下了这一刻。

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I once posted another photo taken on a rainy day in Brussels, Belgium:
以前发过的另一张暴雨中拍的照片：

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The sad news of Ethiopian Airlines plane crash these days has brought my memory back to my solo trip in Ethiopia.

I flew with the same airline from Sao Paulo of Brazil to the capital of Ethiopia in 2017, and traveled 2 weeks in the country.

So I’m going to share some photos I took there. The one you see in this post was shot at the street of its largest city Addis Ababa.

I walked past a dozen construction sites and was on my way to Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum. The owner of the guest house where I stayed suggested that I visit this place.

It was late afternoon. The lazy sun was hanging low in the sky. A warm shade was cast on the enormous overpass, vehicles, pedestrians and the shining wet ground. Heavy traffic, fumes and noises.

I stopped at the red light. 2 Muslim ladies in headscarf were crossing the wide road in that perfect lighting. As a photography enthusiast, I just couldn’t help capturing this moment. :)

A bit to the left (you can see Ethiopian Airlines’ logo at the top right corner):

这几天不断看到埃塞俄比亚航空波音737失事惨剧的最新消息，不幸遇难的同胞中还有个在埃塞转机，打算去肯尼亚毕业旅行的浙江女生。让我想起自己一年多前也是坐着同一航司的飞机从巴西的圣保罗飞到埃国首都，开始独闯非洲，不禁唏嘘。

以前写过篇首都机场惊魂记，发过几张在埃塞俄比亚南部原始部落里拍的照片，这次的两张拍于首都亚的斯亚贝巴街头。斜阳夕照，立交桥、高楼、行人、车流、积水的路面…… 都被笼上一层暖雾。噪音、尾气、右上方的埃航标志、不远处的工地和我的目的地 —— 红色恐怖殉难者纪念馆（客栈老板建议我去那里了解下他们国家这段惨痛的历史）…… 我在红灯的路口停下脚步，两名裹着头巾的穆斯林女士快步穿过大马路，几乎完美的光影瞬间。

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Greetings everyone! I had Tonkotsu ramen as dinner in an Asian restaurant called Kaishu in Maastricht last weekend. This type of ramen is famous for its rich broth made from simmered pork marrow or pork bone.

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A good broth is supposed to be prepared by boiling the bones for around 10 hours or more. But I guess not every ramen restaurant has put this amount of time into it to get the real broth done, especially when it comes to some localized ones out of Japan.

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You often see ramen categorized into four classes: shio (salt), shoyu (soy sauce), miso (fermented bean paste), and tonkotsu (pork), which doesn’t make particular sense, as the first three are flavorings, while the fourth is the broth base.

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To be honest, the soup of this ramen I ordered was not so rich as I expected, but it’s a full photogenic bowl, and I was grateful that I found this heartwarming tasty food in a frigid windy night. 😋

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• Cook with Donica - Make a Savory Crepe | 自制煎饼
• A Szechuan Restaurant in Belgium 🇨🇳🍲🇧🇪 | 比利时正宗川菜馆推荐
• Cooking Video: Creamy Garlic Scampi 🦐 | 美味蒜香虾做法视频
• Japanese Food Experience in a German Medieval Town 🍱 🇩🇪 | 德国童话古镇的日餐推荐
• Cook with Donica - Fish with Pickled Cabbage 👩‍ | 一起来做酸菜鱼
• Cook with Donica - Braised Pork with Tofu and Shiitake 🍲 | 跟我做香菇豆腐红烧肉
• Cook with Donica - Satay Fried Rice 🍛 | 来做简单美味的沙爹炒饭
• Foodie’s Photo Journal of Sydney Fish Market 🐠 | 带你逛悉尼海鲜市场
• Vietnamese Street Food - Mini-Pancakes🥞 🇻🇳 | 越南街头的迷你煎饼
• Dirty Duck Restaurant in Ubud, Bali 🦆 🇮🇩 | 脏鸭馆的美食故事
• Come Visit the Rotterdam Market Hall with Me 🧀🇳🇱 | 号称全球颜值最高的菜市场长什么样？

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Hi everyone! In this post I’m sharing my recipe of making a savory crêpe/galette. It’s inspired by the Chinese style pancakes at street stands across China, and donicanized by whatever I have at hand (as usual ;p). Hope you will enjoy it and give it try! Easy, tasty and healthy - it’s a great breakfast or brunch choice!

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嗨~ 这次来分享个自己今天做的早餐 —— 改良版天津煎饼果子、山东煎饼混合体和放飞自我的结晶。:) 所谓改良版，就是家里能找到什么食材就先用着，哈哈。比如没有油条或薄脆就用薯片代替，没有绿豆粉做面糊就省略，还有加了些这边常用的绿叶沙拉roquette（芝麻菜）、培根、三文鱼之类，可以分别裹在不同的饼皮里。当然你也可以就地取材、自由发挥，简单美味又健康，有空也尝试一下吧~ =)

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Mix wheat flour, corn flour and water:
混合搅拌面粉、玉米粉和水：

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Slice the cucumber and spring onion:
黄瓜和大葱切片/丝：

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加热平底锅，摊平面糊（不禁想到街头那些煎饼艺术家们手中的神奇小耙子^^，我只能左右晃动手中的平底锅来摊平面糊，失掉好多乐趣~）：

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加个鸡蛋抹匀，撒点葱和黑芝麻：

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翻面，另一面涂上豆瓣辣酱，撒点榨菜，或者萝卜干之类：

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中间放上你喜欢吃的或者家里能找到的东西：

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Enjoy! :)
开吃～

The tools below are what street vendors usually use in crafting the delicious pancakes. Perhaps I’ll buy a set too, and set up a street stand somewhere. What do you think of my idea? =)

我还特意上网找了下，打算入手一套煎饼神器，等做到出神入化的地步，说不定去街头摆个摊子，你们觉得如何？;)

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More Foodie Posts:
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• A Szechuan Restaurant in Belgium 🇨🇳🍲🇧🇪 | 比利时正宗川菜馆推荐
• Cooking Video: Creamy Garlic Scampi 🦐 | 美味蒜香虾做法视频
• Japanese Food Experience in a German Medieval Town 🍱 🇩🇪 | 德国童话古镇的日餐推荐
• Cook with Donica - Fish with Pickled Cabbage 👩‍🍳🍲 | 一起来做酸菜鱼
• Cook with Donica - Braised Pork with Tofu and Shiitake 🍲 | 跟我做香菇豆腐红烧肉
• Cook with Donica - Satay Fried Rice 🍛 | 来做简单美味的沙爹炒饭
• Foodie’s Photo Journal of Sydney Fish Market 🐠 | 带你逛悉尼海鲜市场
• Vietnamese Street Food - Mini-Pancakes🥞 🇻🇳 | 越南街头的迷你煎饼
• Dirty Duck Restaurant in Ubud, Bali 🦆 🇮🇩 | 脏鸭馆的美食故事
• Come Visit the Rotterdam Market Hall with Me 🧀🇳🇱 | 号称全球颜值最高的菜市场长什么样？

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Hey, here are the photos I took with my phone in Copacabana, a Bolivian town close to the border with Peru. That late afternoon, I was wandering around in town by Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest navigable body of water.

Suddenly I discovered a narrow trail leading uphill, so I decided to explore where it would lead to. For some parts I had to use my hands to climb up the steep cliffs, and it’s not that easy to ascend in the very thin air.

It turned out to be totally worthy - when I reached the hill top at sunset, the view was just breathtaking (quite literally too as I almost lost my breath ;p). The city’s colorful houses spreaded along the green hills, and the vast Lake Titicaca looked like an endless stretch of the deep blue sea.

You might have heard of the world-renowned Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro? In fact, that more famous cousin takes its name from this town. :) In the local language Aymara, Copacabana means “view of the lake”, deriving from “kota kawana”. Later in Rio, people found the shape of their beach resembled the crescent one here in Bolivia (as you can see in my photos), so they called it the same name.

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The first photo is my entry to Qurator’s Photo Friday competition, and below is the location - you can get an idea of Lake Titicaca’s size:

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我从秘鲁陆路过境后，来到玻利维亚的边境小城科帕卡巴纳(Copacabana)。那天下午，独自在城内的的的喀喀湖边瞎逛，突然看到条上山的小路，决定探索一下。有些地方很陡，需要手脚并用地翻过山石，而且高原地带空气稀薄，等我好不容易爬到山顶，气都快没了。但看到的这番美景真是无法用语言形容，所以我就发了两张手机拍的照片^^。

在巴西时，去过里约热内卢那个世界闻名的海滩，也叫Copacabana，据说就是因为发现那里的海湾类似这儿的新月状，不知道这能不能叫墙里开花墙外香？结果里约的那片性感沙滩比这个高原山城的一弯新月要出名得多~。根据玻利维亚这里当地的语言，这个小城被叫做“湖景”(kota kawana)，看来我无意中发现的观景点竟然完全get到了此城的精华~ 真是太幸运了! :)

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