Granda Festa Barilla Pasta Lhasa Tibet!
July 30th 2010 13:56
Apologies for those of you who are waiting for the next section of African Fever! I really need to write about this part of my trip to Tibet.
Many friends have heard me relate this story about our Granda Festa with Barilla Pasta in Lhasa Tibet.
Quite by accident today I was around the suburb of Annandale in Sydney when I stumbled on , believe it or not Casa Barilla!
I had been to Tibet as you know from my previous posts and when I saw Casa Barilla looming infront of me , I had this sudden urge to ring the bell and tell them the story , and I did on the spur of the moment ring the bell and I was asked to enter Casa Barilla!
The place where Casa Barilla is has been one of my favourite buildings for many years and even though I had been inside on a number of occasions when it had previous retail in it, just the mere fact that it was called Casa Barilla , gave the whole place another dimension as the architecture inside is great.
Let's get to the point. I met the co-ordinator of Casa Barilla, her name being Silvia.
I began to tell her that on my trip to Tibet I travelled with about 8 Italians a few Americans and another Australian
.
The trip was from Kathmandu to Lhasa, over 1,000km.
During the trip we ate various foods , often not knowing what we were actually eating.
There was one Italian couple who did not often come on our food searching expeditions to unique and individual cafes I suppose you could call them but absolutely nothing like the cafes we knew. They always seemed to snaffle a little blue suitcase that was easily pulled and easily removed from the main luggage.every time we stayed somewhere along the trip to Lahasa our eventual end point.
On arriving in Lhasa after spending many eventful days together, visiting various places
it was time for all of us to go in different directions but before we did we had an evening of Tibetan folk music and dancing.
After which we headed back to our hotel.
There our Italian friends decided to reveal all to us .
I had often wondered what was so precious in this small blue suitcase that they dragged off the tour vehicle each stop along our journey.
They asked us all to go to their hotel room, where low and behold the contents of the suitcase was revealed.
Pasta but not just any pasta and sauce but Barilla Pasta!
Whilst we were all sampling and trying the local foods along the way , they, at every stop were eating tinned tuna and Barilla Pasta with various Barilla sauces.
They decided to finally share the secret with us ....they even had a camping stove!!!!! We were all gobbsmacked but also most delighted as we really were dying to get some food into us that we were used to.
We had tsampa along the way and many interesting Tibetan dishes as well as some of the group trying Yak burgers but as a vegetarian I did not.
If you carefully look above the television there is a feint view of the box of pasta on a blue suitcase.......
We were enjoying the pasta and sauce immensely as the photos reveal.
Whilst we were at 3,300 roughly metres with oxygen at the side of the beds in the hotel rooms , there was nothing stopping us from enjoying Barilla Pasta and sauce , even though breathing was difficult the pasta just slid down between the breaths!!!! Superb , Pasta never tasted better , forget the masterchefs and the Italian style , this was the real Festa of Barilla Pasta in Lhasa, never to be forgotten by any of us.
So hence this blog has finally revealed the Barilla pasta at Himalayan heights.
Silvia loved the tale and I promised this blog tonight .
So here it is for all of you to read.
If you are a Barilla pasta lover they do have classes with masterchefs at the Casa Barilla in Annandale Silvia told me, so try some of their courses.
To all Barilla pasta and sauce lovers if you have a Barilla pasta adventure or story , comment on this post and we could start a Barilla Pasta movement!!!!
Ciao all.Enjoy your Barilla pasta !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many friends have heard me relate this story about our Granda Festa with Barilla Pasta in Lhasa Tibet.
Quite by accident today I was around the suburb of Annandale in Sydney when I stumbled on , believe it or not Casa Barilla!
I had been to Tibet as you know from my previous posts and when I saw Casa Barilla looming infront of me , I had this sudden urge to ring the bell and tell them the story , and I did on the spur of the moment ring the bell and I was asked to enter Casa Barilla!
The place where Casa Barilla is has been one of my favourite buildings for many years and even though I had been inside on a number of occasions when it had previous retail in it, just the mere fact that it was called Casa Barilla , gave the whole place another dimension as the architecture inside is great.
Let's get to the point. I met the co-ordinator of Casa Barilla, her name being Silvia.
I began to tell her that on my trip to Tibet I travelled with about 8 Italians a few Americans and another Australian
Granda festa Barilla Pasta!
The trip was from Kathmandu to Lhasa, over 1,000km.
During the trip we ate various foods , often not knowing what we were actually eating.
There was one Italian couple who did not often come on our food searching expeditions to unique and individual cafes I suppose you could call them but absolutely nothing like the cafes we knew. They always seemed to snaffle a little blue suitcase that was easily pulled and easily removed from the main luggage.every time we stayed somewhere along the trip to Lahasa our eventual end point.
On arriving in Lhasa after spending many eventful days together, visiting various places
Stunning costumes and voices
After which we headed back to our hotel.
There our Italian friends decided to reveal all to us .
I had often wondered what was so precious in this small blue suitcase that they dragged off the tour vehicle each stop along our journey.
They asked us all to go to their hotel room, where low and behold the contents of the suitcase was revealed.
Pasta but not just any pasta and sauce but Barilla Pasta!
Whilst we were all sampling and trying the local foods along the way , they, at every stop were eating tinned tuna and Barilla Pasta with various Barilla sauces.
They decided to finally share the secret with us ....they even had a camping stove!!!!! We were all gobbsmacked but also most delighted as we really were dying to get some food into us that we were used to.
We had tsampa along the way and many interesting Tibetan dishes as well as some of the group trying Yak burgers but as a vegetarian I did not.
Barilla Pasta Secret revealed.
Yummmm!
Divine food!
If you carefully look above the television there is a feint view of the box of pasta on a blue suitcase.......
We were enjoying the pasta and sauce immensely as the photos reveal.
Whilst we were at 3,300 roughly metres with oxygen at the side of the beds in the hotel rooms , there was nothing stopping us from enjoying Barilla Pasta and sauce , even though breathing was difficult the pasta just slid down between the breaths!!!! Superb , Pasta never tasted better , forget the masterchefs and the Italian style , this was the real Festa of Barilla Pasta in Lhasa, never to be forgotten by any of us.
So hence this blog has finally revealed the Barilla pasta at Himalayan heights.
Silvia loved the tale and I promised this blog tonight .
So here it is for all of you to read.
If you are a Barilla pasta lover they do have classes with masterchefs at the Casa Barilla in Annandale Silvia told me, so try some of their courses.
To all Barilla pasta and sauce lovers if you have a Barilla pasta adventure or story , comment on this post and we could start a Barilla Pasta movement!!!!
Ciao all.Enjoy your Barilla pasta !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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