Fete de la Band Dessinée and Sushi night...
Another eventful weekend comes to an end...
Before coming to France I had checked up the weather condition of Angouleme on the internet. One of the websites very accurately predicted 1 day of heavy snowfall in the month of Jan. Well, that day happened be last saturday, the day Angouleme hosts the International Comic book festival called "Fete de la Band Dessinée".
The best comic book publishers and authors from across the globe come here to attend this 3 days long festival. Their best collections are on sale and people can get a cartoon made on the first page of the book they buy, by the author. My comic book knowledge is limited to Asterix, Garfield and Calvin n hobbes, but when I got there I saw that there's much more to comic books than humour. This proffession is taken much more seriously than I thought. Spent a whole day roaming around in the comic stalls and exhibitions.
The same night I had Sushi for the first time. Before i tasted it, all I could see was well decorated raw seafood on the table. But the taste was well worth the time we spent on preparing and decorating it. There is a Japanese herb called 'wasabi', which can be called the Japanese version of the hottest Indian chilli. Its supposed to be taken in very small amounts with each of the dishes of a sushi platter. Just for kix one of my friends prepared one roll with a crazy amount of wasabi in it. Well unfortunately the bomb fell on me, i just had a bite of that roll by mistake and ended up gulping water for a good half n hour. So much for the love of Japanese food.
Before coming to France I had checked up the weather condition of Angouleme on the internet. One of the websites very accurately predicted 1 day of heavy snowfall in the month of Jan. Well, that day happened be last saturday, the day Angouleme hosts the International Comic book festival called "Fete de la Band Dessinée".
The best comic book publishers and authors from across the globe come here to attend this 3 days long festival. Their best collections are on sale and people can get a cartoon made on the first page of the book they buy, by the author. My comic book knowledge is limited to Asterix, Garfield and Calvin n hobbes, but when I got there I saw that there's much more to comic books than humour. This proffession is taken much more seriously than I thought. Spent a whole day roaming around in the comic stalls and exhibitions.
The same night I had Sushi for the first time. Before i tasted it, all I could see was well decorated raw seafood on the table. But the taste was well worth the time we spent on preparing and decorating it. There is a Japanese herb called 'wasabi', which can be called the Japanese version of the hottest Indian chilli. Its supposed to be taken in very small amounts with each of the dishes of a sushi platter. Just for kix one of my friends prepared one roll with a crazy amount of wasabi in it. Well unfortunately the bomb fell on me, i just had a bite of that roll by mistake and ended up gulping water for a good half n hour. So much for the love of Japanese food.