| Inside: a huge number of books.
| Elsewhere inside. Ah, what a cozy mess. Note the stairway.
| Rue Xavier Privas is a colorful street with many flags.
| Rue Buci has many restaurants and cafes.
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| We ate dinner at Le Boomerang, a North African / Middle Eastern
restaurant.
| Chorba, a "typical Oriental soup." Di Yin says it was made from lamb
broth. She enjoyed it.
| The components of Di Yin's vegetable couscous dish. One was supposed to
use couscous (right) as the base on which to ladle the stew (left). The
topping (middles) of a spicy sauce, garbanzo beans, and raisins were
optional. The stew was mainly made from marrow, a zucchini-like squash
whose distinguishing feature is that the meat is a bit stringy in the
same style as winter squashes (but less prominently so). It also had
carrots and potatoes. Naturally, the stew based tasted very squashy-y.
I thought this dish was decent/good. Di Yin said it was great, and
planned to make something similar at home (and indeed she later did).
| My dish was nothing like what I expected. I thought I was getting a
lamb couscous. What I got was lamb chops (mediocre, boring) with fries
(bleh). It turns out we mis-read the menu.
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