Grandma's delicacies

This is Grandma making the delicious BUCHADA!!! My favourite dish ever that may sound, look smell, and taste very weird for people not used to it. And it's very rare to be used to it! I personnally wait a loooong year expecting to eat that beautiful dish made by grandma. This is a regional dish from northeast Brazil and can hardly be found in other places. Even in my city, where this dish is supposed to be quite popular, nowadays restaurant don't want to have the hard work to prepare that anymore.
It consists in cleaned Lamb belly cut in squared shapes and filled up with the cleaned finely chopped intestins together with tomatoes, peppers, onions, spices and a dash of lime. The little pockets are then sewed and cooked in a large pot with wome lamb bones. The bones are also great! They will absorb the sauce inside and if you suck on it, it has the sauce taste mixed with the bone marrow. So delicious!
Dan couldn't eat it and ate ready lasagna instead...

Getting along

After this trip to Brazil I was pretty glad about how everything went there. Better than what I expected. No "direct" roberies and Daniel got along with my family pretty well and now he misses Fortaleza so much^^ The only thing is for next time he should practice on getting a better resistence to alcohool!
If there's one thing that upset me a lot is how people looked at us as a strange couple probably and how they commented on Dan's look for it not being very usual in my city. Everywhere we went he was tagged as the "litlle japanese" or "hey hey look at his eyes"... Ahhh these people they have no discretion and have to speak out loud their thoughts... Well I know they don't want to be mean but if you are asian and want to feel extraordinary or have a taste of whats like being famous, Fortaleza is the place to go !

Volcano ashes

This is a picture of how Europe was affected by the Iceland volcano

Gatting started

I never thought that starting a blog would be so hard...
After our vacation in Brazil we didn't have any time to upload pictures or news as we got stuck
in Fortaleza because of the volcano ashes in Europe. We waited a week more in my grandparents house to be able to fly back to Leeds.
After our arrival I had to hand in delayed works to university and justify my abssence and directly after I had to stard revising for my exams that finished just about a week ago.
Dan has started practicing really hard on his songs and is also trying to find band mates to his group. Now that I've got a few free time I'll show you some of
Brazil and what is coming next :)
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Ta Ta Bom!

Hi there!
Here goes a little explanation about the choice of our blog name: Ta bom (따봉), in Portuguese, means "it's good" and this particular expression became very popular amonst korean people. In the 80's one of the well-known juice producing companies took this expression (Ta bom!) and named one of their products after it. Until now, those people who lived the succesful period of "Ta bom" in the 80's still use this brazilian expression to mean something is good. Other products also appeared since then, like "Ta Ta bom" or "따따봉" wich is shoes soles to improve comfort... We think this name is funny and represent a sort of relationship between South Korea and Brazil. That's it!