The first two weeks here, I lived downtown in a hostel, where the provided breakfast was the standard trifecta of three croissants, a coffee, and a shot of orange juice. They call the croissants "medialunas"--literally, half-moons. This past crappy week, I've been exploring all the various options in the neighborhood in an effort to get my day off to a sweet start. You can buy them everywhere, usually for about one peso each (roughly 28 cents), or by the kilo.
Every day I've been getting an assortment of medialunas and other facturas (pastries). This morning this gorgeous, sugar-dusted alfajores caught my eye. Alfajores--or just alfas--are another sugar staple here, biscuits with dulce de leche sandwiched between them. Another piece of heaven here in Buenos Aires.
did you eat all of those to your dome? awesome breakfast. love medialunas, the really cheap pizza place that was all over has them in the morning too, used to stop all the time before school for those... <3
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