Milan Day 1

Today is mostly a food post!

We woke up to a super grey rainy day. While eating breakfast you could barely see the lake so we got lucky with the weather! No rain yesterday when walking around, rain today when we left (plus it was raining ask day yesterday in Milan and today it was nice weather!).

The drive was mostly raining through Switzerland which was unfortunate as you couldn’t see the mountains as they were covered in clouds. By lunchtime we had gotten to the other side of the mountains which was perfect timing as it wasn’t raining there! So we could stand outside and eat lunch - we have a VW Touran which…is super duper uncomfortable. Raymond even said it wasn’t great and usually he is fine in whatever we drive. So I did not want to sit in the car and eat lunch! I needed a break! I was so glad we didn’t have to drive yesterday as that seat was killing me the prior two days. One of the issues is I have a cushion I sit on as the seat is too hard, but it is too thick so I have to lower the seat so I can fit, but the way the seat lowers is weird and it marred me sit weird and it was making basically my one side super sore very quickly. My hip/butt/lower back/leg on the one side would just hurt driving and then be super sore by the time we got where we were going. Today I tried it with no cushion and up higher so my lower body was more in alignment and that was much better, then my butt just was sore from the hard seat. So then finally after lunch I was like what if I sit on my jacket to cushion it some and that worked great! So so so much better which is good as I wasn’t super sore when we got here to Milan! We have a longer day of driving to our stop after this so I am glad I figured out a way to get there without it being awful!

Once we got here we went to spy on food. First up was a matcha place with a red bean and grape bun and a pistachio mochi - the mochi was so good!! I have lots of places to spy on while Raymond is working, but I might have to go back for more! The bun filling was good, but the outside was super dry.

Then we wandered through Chinatown - I didn’t even realize Milan had one until looking for places to eat for this trip! And we ate our way down the Main Street and it was delicious!! Every place had very different flavors and oh, I loved it! We had a tofu skin and pepper steamed bun, some veggie steamed dumplings with spinach, tofu, cabbage, carrots, celery, noodles, soy sauce, and sesame that almost tasted like stuffing! Then some cabbage, mushroom and tofu grilled dumplings (these were probably my favorite! They were so so good!! Mostly cabbage and super delicious) then on to some dumplings with spinach, carrots, tofu and noodles and an open steamed bun with tofu, cabbage and carrots…these were disappointing. Good, but not nearly as good as the things we ate before it! Then we went back to the cabbage dumpling place and got a steamed bun with the same ingredients and a red bean bun as well - so good!! I love it and I will definitely have to go back while Raymond is working and spy on all the cute shops we saw! We are staying very close so it is a quick walk.

Tomorrow Raymond has work and I go spy on all the foods and see what I see along the way! But today was pretty good. Not too bad of a drive and a nice walk to eat all the things!Baca selengkapnya