Pan Asian Food In Barcelona
Found this cute place when I was over there in June, it was called Matsuri. It was on a dark and grimy street but since lots of Barcelona is dark and grimy that's not an issue, right?

What was totally wonderful about the place was the fact there was me and a couple of guys at the other end of the bar, that was the entire clientele on a Monday evening. Don't understand why since the food was fantastic but since it meant they kept sending out little tidbits for me to try I wasn't about to complain.

Ended up with:

+ Torimaki to start. It's basically sushi roll made with breaded chicken instead of rice and then sliced up. So you get round slices of breaded chicken surrounding veggie pieces and a dish of spicy dipping sauce. I'd not had torimaki before but will definitely hunt this up again. Real comfort food.

+ Pad Thai Kung, pad thai is one of my favourite foods and I wanted it badly after watching one of the guys devour a plateful of noodles, crunchy beansprouts and plenty of broken up peanuts.

+ Tarta, the most rich chocolate cake I have ever come across, chocolate mousse and coconut ice cream. Proof that rule 1 of life is very true - Always Have Dessert.

+ Sakepirinha - (Capirinha made with sake instead of the cachaca) so it's sake, lime juice and brown sugar mixed and served over large rocks of ice - lethal but lovely. Beautiful colour, amazing taste but very, very strong, this is now of my favourite drinks and if I'm celebrating something and feeling rich I am going to get a barman to make me one of these.

A great meal of trying new things and classics. I rolled out the door nearly three hours after I went in. Those Sake thingys are really worth trying.