Madrid day 2 started with us joining the Sandeman’s free walking tour. They are quite good. Our tour guide is quite informative and knows a lot about the history (well I think it’s partly because he is a history major in Madrid). Free walking tours do not charge for their tours and each tour guide works on tips basis. So basically, you can give him/her any amount that you feel the tour is worthy of. Budget travelling check!
On our way to the meeting place of the tour, Plaza Mayor, we walked into this market place selling all sorts of food, from hams, sausages to buns and cakes.
Buns and empanada
During lunch, tour guide guy brought us to this place called Museo del Jamon (pronounce as kha-mon) which literally means the ham museum. Apart from the name, there is nothing about the shop that looks like museum, except if you consider all the ham legs that are hanging around the shop as artefacts.
Ham attack!!
Museo del Jamon is a place for cheap eateries. They sell certain bocadillo (sandwich) and drinks (including beer, coke and fanta) at 1 euro. Yes 1 EURO. And their sandwich to me is considered quite awesome for 1 euro, with ham/bacon and cheese. One thing, their bread is not as dry as I thought, second, the ham used is real ham and not processed ones.
Some baguette with ham
Museo del Jamon is everywhere in Madrid. You can choose to either stand at the bar or have your proper meal in a comfortable situation with tables and chairs, but of course you need to pay extra for the food. Besides sandwiches, they sell assorted pastries as well. One can get breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper, tea, every meal at Museo del Jamon without burning ones wallet. Well, we almost did that. But their stuff were really good!
During the 4 days in Madrid, we at least have sandwiches from the shop for 3 days. I always choose croissant mixto as croissant is much more softer compared to baguette. One time, I ordered something called pan tomaca without actually knowing what it is. We waited for almost 15 minutes for the thing to be served, and it turns out to be toasted garlic bread. Of course with a piece of ham on it. It’s damn good. And their coffee deserved to be given some acknowledgement. In fact, the coffee that we had in Spain never go wrong. Any stall you go, the cafe con leche (coffee with milk) never ever goes wrong. Even their McDonald’s coffee taste 100 times better the one served in Singapore/Malaysia. I wish I could make such wonderful coffee one day.
So, if you are looking for cheap alternative to eat, try Museo de Jammon. It is really not bad! Budget travelling check again!
After the tour, we went to the town to get tickets for bullfight! Along the way we saw many many ice-cream stalls. Did I tell you I have a soft spot for desserts? So, I kinda talked boyfriend into getting an ice-cream to share (plus the weather’s is awfully hot), and they are really good. Better than the whippies sold around London ;)
Ice-cream with two scoops of flavours which I couldn’t recall
For dinner, we went on to Mercado San Miguel for some racione and tapas. This place is a real market which sells poultry, meat and vege. But at night, it transforms itself into a place for people to eat and chill. Come to think of it, this is the closest they get to pasar malam. So boyfriend and I got some tapas to share
This is the Spanish version of Sushi! We had salmon, mussels, tuna and herring fish and they were all so fresh!
This is some skewer with iberian ham and plum (outer) and some chicken thingy (inner)
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