Pua
When I first arrived in Tel Aviv, I met up with a friend I hadn’t seen in 10 years at Pua in Jaffa. Really cute place with old fashion tables and chairs and dishes and lots of tchotchkes all over the place. It really looks like it could have been your grandmothers house at one point, just added some tables and a chef and some waiters/waitresses. I was happy because there was an English menu and lots of veggie options. We both decided to have the veggie burger. I was really looking forward to my first veggie burger in Israel but was very disappointed. It was massive. Too massive, and too mushy. It was potato based which of course for me is better than mushroom because atleast I enjoy potatoes but not this. I couldn’t even pick it up to eat it, it needed to be cut into pieces and you know how I feel about having to cut my food. Potatoes came on the side, and I enjoyed those but obviously this was not a very fulfilling meal. Luckily it was great catching up with a friend I hadn’t seen in so long that made up for the eh, food.
Several weeks later I returned with other friends, and had a beyond fun and friendly waitress. When she blanked on English words, she referred to herself having “blackouts.” We shared two amazingly flavorful salads and I ordered the dumplings in a curry sauce. Sounded a bit adventurous for me but hey, I like dumplings and recently grew an interest for curry. It was basically a curry soup with mixed veggies, rice on the side and honestly, no dumplings to be found. I was quite confused, and curious as to where the dumplings were, but by the time the waitress came back to our table. I had basically finished the curry soup. It was very delicious, whatever it may have been called when there’s no dumplings in a dish listed as “dumplings.” A dish lost in Hebrew/English translation? I think so.
Pua
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