{"id":1303,"date":"2014-08-09T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2014-08-09T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T19:40:39","slug":"its-china-wok-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/its-china-wok-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s China Wok Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3309_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1304\" src=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3309_small-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3309_small\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3309_small-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3309_small-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>I know this looks like an advertisement for an Asian escort, but it&#8217;s not.\u00a0 It&#8217;s my last night in Athens and I just got back to my hotel after a long day of Athenian hill walking and swimming and archaeology and museuming and I was looking for some Asian food.\u00a0 I had the best Greek taverna dinner on Paros a few nights ago and I didn&#8217;t want to ruin it with some substandard souvlaki and okay octopus.\u00a0 And had a great nouveau taverna dinner with Robert last night here in Athens at <a href=\"http:\/\/rififi-restaurant.gr\/\">Rififi<\/a> in Exarchia (wish I had my camera to take a pic of the sesame crusted saganaki drizzled with greek honey, good lord that was good), so again couldn&#8217;t top that so just wanted something Asian and spicy with some ice cold Greek beer. Didn&#8217;t see anything in Plaka, or Syntagma or Omonoia and when I got back here, the gorgeous, blue-eyed, deep-voiced Vasilis suggested ordering in.\u00a0 He&#8217;s the concierge, and I just asked if there was a Thai restaurant or anything Asian close by, and bam, he handed me a Chinese takeout menu and in that crazy deep voice of his said &#8220;Tell me what you want in English and I will order it for you in Greek&#8221;.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll tell you, that&#8217;s the best proposition I&#8217;ve had this trip! He definitely didn&#8217;t have to twist my arm. And there&#8217;s a cute little hotel bar. Dim lights, cushiony chairs. Sure, cans of Mythos cost a whopping 3.50 here, but I&#8217;m exhausted and honestly, I&#8217;m just so psyched that I can get some Chinese take out.<\/p>\n<p>I just saw a Dominos delivery guy come in&#8230;oh Vasilis, and I thought I was special.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1305\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3310_small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1305\" class=\"wp-image-1305\" src=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3310_small.jpg\" alt=\"Top left corner, pork with garlic sauce and chili.  Yum.\" width=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3310_small.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3310_small-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top left corner, pork with garlic sauce and chili. Yum.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1306\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Photo-on-8-9-14-at-2.07-PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1306\" class=\"wp-image-1306 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Photo-on-8-9-14-at-2.07-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Photo on 8-9-14 at 2.07 PM\" width=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Photo-on-8-9-14-at-2.07-PM.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Photo-on-8-9-14-at-2.07-PM-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just like home, except in Greek.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll revisit Spain when I&#8217;m in Oslo tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this looks like an advertisement for an Asian escort, but it&#8217;s not.\u00a0 It&#8217;s my last night in Athens and I just got back to my hotel after a long day of Athenian hill walking and swimming and archaeology and museuming and I was looking for some Asian food.\u00a0 I had the best Greek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}