Romania
Suspense
of the Pastry
BY ROMERICAN
Faurar 23rd, 2007
Travel Tip: Always, but always, support your rustic street vendors on the
backalley ribbons of non-tourist zones. If a kiosk can survive selling wares
to nearby residents, then it must be “quite okay” and non-lethal.
Stand proud in recognition that such venues remain sufficiently mysterious
enough to give you that rush of adrenaline that comes from taking great risks
to eat like the native.
Valid for the purist seeking authentic experiences in any city, town, and
village. Braşov is no exception to your guiding principle of avoiding chains,
franchises, and other tainted commodity establishments while visiting strange,
far-flung lands at the outer realms of the known world.
Leave the guidebook at home and go get lost.
You may find the very purpose of your life was to set out as the intrepid
explorer who would unwittingly discover the thrills of being the first alien
to unearth a quaint little pastry shop and to shed the light of publicity upon
it.
Most often, you’ll find it conveniently buried down a quiet, dusty street
surrounded by bloc apartments filled with suspicious residents who peer out
from behind protective curtains anytime their sixth sense signals the alarm
that a foreigner has breeched the cartier perimeter.
For example, you just might stumble upon such a hidden gem while larking about
the Florilor neighborhood of Braşov, Romania, in which case you’d be ruffling
the feathers of the cloistered neurotics busily spying on your radically
unfamiliar walking style in the vicinity of Str. Branduşelor, Nr. 50 A.
Like a sweet-toothed moth drawn toward the
bakery’s light, your subconscious detects the cheerful colors of handcut vinyl
stickers spelling out words you don’t understand as they slowly lose contact
with the glass and find their edges peeling.
As your ciliary muscle relaxes, shelves upon shelves of pasteries reveal
themselves to you. Language is no longer a barrier to comprehension. Step
closer, stranger, and witness the menagerie of flavors unknown.
Sweet bread, the length of a forearm, smothered in chocolate may beckon.
Perhaps the siren song of pastry shaped like polish pretzels will dance in the
air. Then again, the sugar-dusted puffs stuffed with Turkish Delight may prove
irresistible.
Thoughtful photographers will survey all the
various options on display before meditating deeply over the consequences of
any given choice. Chaos theory clearly states that in such extreme
circumstances space and time will crumble in the vortex of singularity, thus
provoking bliss (academically referred to in Latinish flanc cu caşcaval).
Whatever the outcome of your particular adventure into the vibrant lives of
kiosk food salesmanship, you can look forward to bragging to your friends and
family about your predilection for cavalier approaches to comestible
consumption.
A giant among mere men, you know no fear.
Never, but never, devolve into self-defeatist second guessing about why the
woman behind the counter got upset by your taking pictures of the little shop.
Or how it was absurd she would not divulge the name of the company despite it
being painted on the outside of the building.
Don’t worry yourself trying to make sense of
what her motivation could have possibly been for insisting you speak to the
owner (whom she had no idea when or if he would ever come next) in order to
verify the street address so you could publicize the yummy goodies on the dark
and scary internet.
Instead, focus on the positive speculation about whether the merchants likely
kept the money local by hiring their neighbor Mihai to defend them once
you belatedly find out the company was suspended by national authorities
concerned about the dramatically unsanitary conditions used to prepare the
very pastry you ate.
Uniunea Avocatilor din Romania
Baroul Brasov
Lista membrilor
POP SERGIU
MIHAI
Brasov , str. Branduselor nr.50 bl.C ap.1 - 0744329920
Autoritatea
Nationala Sanitar-Veterinara
si pentru
Siguranta Alimentelor
Total unitati suspendate: 1394
Unitati cu profil "non animal" cu autorizatia de
functionare anulata
Brasov Brasov Str. Branduselor, Nr. 50 A
Unitati de fabricare a painii, produselor de panificatie si patiserie -
VLADY-PROD
Pastry