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| Breakfast from Beatrix
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| I grabbed a pastry from Beatrix, a bakery I've visited twice before:
one, two. I thought
this item, labeled "escargot pastache", would be a pistachio-flavored
snail(-shaped pastry) but it tasted of peach. Yet, there are some
green highlights so there must be some pistachio in there somewhere.
Regardless, the pastry was good.
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| Morning Wanderings
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A 360 degree (plus up and down) panoramic video of the inside of Saint
Eustache church, a Gothic cathedral in the design of Notre Dame though
with some Renaissance-style decorations. It's a lofting space that
feels bigger than other cathedrals we've visited. Probably this effect
comes from the lack of people.
Incidentally, I'd previously photographed
its outside.
| The grand arches above the apse and vivid stained glass windows. I
created this picture by combining two exposures of the same shot.
Excellent?
| A close-up of the rose window.
| Its grand pulpit.
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The church needs a bit of repair.
| A building with a funky facade. I wonder what the point of it is.
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We stopped by a few of Paris's top chocolatiers who happened to be in
the area, most notably Jean-Paul Hevin. Jean-Paul Hevin had
an impressive variety of single-source chocolate (i.e., chocolate bars
grown from beans in a particular country).
| Laduree, perhaps
Paris's most famous macaroon shop.
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Laduree had a collection of single-source honey: honey made from bees
from a particular province of France. Supposedly these honeys taste
different because of the different species of flowers bees pollinate in
each area.
| Its selection of macaroons, which comes in about a dozen flavors and in
two different sizes.
| The macaroon we tried: orange blossom flavor. Neat. Pretty light.
Served slightly chilled. It tasted flowery, probably from the honey
used. Di Yin was confident there was a hazelnut after-taste.
| Maille, a
shop that specializes in mustard, has numerous varieties including
raspberry, herby, figs & coriander, Thai, etc. This shot is of the
shelves with the "saveurs et fruits du monde." There are other equally
large bookshelves with "herbes et aromatics" and "caracteres et
terroirs."
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We also stumbled upon La Bague de Kenza. It had
such beautiful pastries that I felt I should write down its name.
I say stumbled upon because it wasn't on my lists like the other
destinations.
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| Lunch at Au P'tit Panisse
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| My coworker/friend P and Di Yin posing with the menu at our lunch
place, Au P'tit Panisse.
| Inside. We were the last people to leave from lunch; that's why the
tables are empty.
| P and I posing with the appetizers. At left, sardines escabeche
with pickled carrots. Pretty standard sardines. Good. At right,
scallop carpaccio with olive oil, peppers, and arugula. Delicious! We
soaked up every drop of the sauce but it wasn't just the sauce that made
the dish good; the scallops were very good and fresh.
| Di Yin and I with two of the three mains.
At left, half a
rotisserie chicken (a young chicken, a cockerel) on top of a vegetable
mix (eggplant, zucchini, tomato), all cooked in chicken juice. Quite
good.
At right, "jambonnette de volaille confite." Great! I
think it was a pig leg. (I'm having trouble translating the idiomatic
French so now I'm not so sure.) It was served with the same vegetable
mash just cooked in pork fat. The mash was also good, and I ended up
piling some on bread. Di Yin told me don't let it go to waste. :) This
was the best dish of the meal.
P's main course (not shown),
a grilled sausage, was good but nothing special. He kept wanting to eat
more of my dish. ;)
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Desserts.
At left, an apricot tart with raspberry sauce. The sauce
was great, with a hint of lemon. The tart was respectable.
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right, a warm chocolate cake with caramel sauce and a side of whipped
cream. I think this dish was awesome. Di Yin appreciated the richness
of the whipped cream.
Also, Di Yin hypothesized that the raspberry
and chocolate went great together. We all tested the hypothesis and
agreed.
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Sorry, I forgot to take a picture of the outside of the restaurant.
Here it is (closed-up) on google
street view.
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| Cimetiere (Cemetery) du Pere Lachaise
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| This 360 degree panoramic video of the Cimetiere (cemetery) du Pere
Lachaise captures the look of the place.
| Looking down one path.
| Funerary monuments arranged on a hillside, just another shot to show
what the cemetery looks like.
| When hunting for a grave, we once ended up off the paths. It felt a bit
like a scavenger hunt.
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| I recognized a lot of names on this list of notable people buried here.
The full-sized image is readable.
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Incidentally, we spotted two open graves, and a crypt where the lock
had been broken off. Spooky!
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| Canal Saint Martin
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| A neat bridge where the metro runs above ground near Stalingrad station.
| Looking north along Canal Saint Martin. It's wide here. Sidewalks run
directly next to the canal here.
| One lock we passed walking south along Canal Saint Martin.
| A narrower part of the canal approaching another lock.
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