Comments on: the best bola de berlim in portugal

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Mon, 31 May 2010 02:52:07 +0000

[...] Palaçio da Bolsa, São Bento train station and Igreja do Carmo for azulejos, Café Majestic and Leitaria Quinta do Paço for refreshment, Porto Paixão for shopping. The top museum is the Museu do Arte Contemporânea, in [...]

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:18:03 +0000

I have to visit this place, even if it’s just as a refuge from the in-laws when they are over! Thanks Em.

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:24:30 +0000

hi anna. I want to do a post about petersham… tinyartdirector goes there a lot and when she sends me the photos of ‘sweet belem’ and the butchers and the delis… I get confused because it really could be PORTUGAL… chocolate salamis and terracotta pigs for chorico assado…there are pics from petersham on the facebook page… anyway I’m already looking forward to a trip to porto to that cafe, in MAY ;|

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:23:29 +0000

I totally loved these.I trekked all over Portugal to try a good one.I can’t seem to find them here in Australia.We get good a Pastel de Nata in Petersham Sydney,but not a bola so disappointed.

By: Emma

Emma — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:20:02 +0000

I have just discovered that my local makes a superior bolo de arroz (i thought they all came from the same national factory – because they all look identical everywhere you go, but no no no). They might be simple little cup-cakey things but when they are good, they are very… and washed down with a galão, a very nice hunger breaker indeed.

By: Andria

Andria — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:26:30 +0000

Bola de berlim are wonderful. Don’t know if I’ll ever get round to taste testing the ones in Porto, as it’s a way off from Lisbon. I’m also quite partial to Bola de arroz with a galão. Though I know the Portuguese don’t eat them for breakfast. But then I’m not Portuguese

By: Isabel

Isabel — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:40:42 +0000

Don’t mean to squat your blog, but as palavras são como as cerejas… Here is exactly what my beach was about:

http://a-musica-das-palavras.blogspot.com/2009/07/sem-paginas-de-uma-arte_26.html

Only the photographer is missing, like this one:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mZ7q0JP_oSw/Sd5L4tHwRgI/AAAAAAAABdA/GxgS0o3mZes/s400/Fot-mult.JPG

By: Isabel

Isabel — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:22:17 +0000

Oh, if you have any doubt, just google “sra. maria” “bolas” “praia” “caixa de bolos”, etc and you get blogs and blogs with dozens of comments, like this one:

http://osdiasuteis.blogspot.com/2007/10/infncia.html

Come to think of it, if you asked me what is “home” for a Portuguese abroad, I would probably answer “um pastel de nata e uma bica” (or cimbalino, of course). But, obviously, a bola de berlim has its very special meaning, too, it seems to say “chilhdood summers”. Not to mention the very special emotional relationship that the Portuguese have with The Beach (everybody has ONE).

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:37:21 +0000

Wow! Now it’s not just a thing to eat with coffee, it’s a whole popular culture history lesson…

By: Isabel

Isabel — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:11:01 +0000

Another picture, that gives an idea of the hard, hard work of these people under the blistering sun:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabricoproprio/1214365893/