04.02-04.09 - Broadway, Easter 2012

We went to meet with our former boss at the Hungarian Goulash Place in Danbury.

The special plate was so cool! Fasirt, kolbász, sült karaj, pároltkáposzta!! The sausage tasted like real home-made stuff! I would never believe without seeing with my eyes and tasting with my tongue. Yammy!

Look at this beautiful palacsinta/Palatschinke/Pancake, it had three layers as it was rolled up, each one was stuffed with cottage cheese, strawberry jam and apricot jam!

With the oldest Hungarian Hungarian-restaurant owner, Aczél János bácsi (Mr. John Aczel)

With my peers! Wow, we had a great time, everyone ate his/her portion.

I had to go back and buy two pairs of home-made smoked sausages. János bácsi gave me a half real Hungarian bread!!! I sat down on Friday and ate half of it (approximately 60 dkg-s, 1,2 lbs) with fresh butter!

On Tuesday night I got an invitation from Jeffrey's mother to the Broadway. That night was just so perfect. I cannot compare the show to any other theater shows. I knew that the Broadway is Broadway, but i had no clue what is going on there. Now I know. Incredible performers. That was an epic experience, thank you!!!

Here is a short movie about it. But it cannot give back the feeling.

Just look at me! I look like a five years old kid, who just got a lollipop. I was so happy. I couldn't do anything else but smile. 

I went to fish on Saturday afternoon. The weather was wonderful, so i decided to catch some fish. I walked around where just water was and tried my best, but nothing really came to my hook. 

I saw some beaver sings. In one of my previous spot there is a video about them. Look it up.

I like this picture, i always wanted to make a bridge like this. "The dream came true..."

It is in the middle of the swamp. The beauty can find you anywhere. 

There is a Long Island:) where the river reaches the pond, i walked through alongside and almost stepped on this goose mother. She has 5 eggs. I didnt want to disturb her so turned back and sat down to fish. The water was crystal clear i could even see the bottom of it. While I was wondering in the sunshine a huge large-mouth bass swam in front of me. Of course i wanted to catch him, so i made a cast, but he went away. I thought: **** this, i have to have fish dirt on my hands. So I decided to cheat the system and let's fish on campus where there is a little pond. (some days earlier i checked it, and there was one big koi carp in it and i saw another big fish, but i couldn't say what kind of) I don't have to say that you cannot fish on campus.

Let's have fun! - Who is gonna catch you, Bence on Easter Saturday?

Here we go!! I felt enough fish dirt on my hands, caught altogether 70 fish. Most of them were sunnies and bluegills. 

And the 60th was the big fish i saw in the pond before. 

A beautiful large-mouth bass, the first one in my life.

I fried it and served with corn and juice. It was delicious. That is why i love our Campus. What not allowed to do is much sweeter! I am going to come back! Check out for crazy Hungarians at the pond!

Alley and Jeffrey invited me to a Sunday Easter lunch. Here is the Table 1. 

What do you think?  

 Creamy cheese with jam and cracker? It tastes good! 

Lamb, beef and we had a huge piece of ham. Good protein source for a hungry kid. 

Table 2.  

 Pickled daffodils 

Me with Mr. Bernhard

Happy Easter 2012!

03.26-04.01 - Pennsylvania trip

We went to Pennsylvania on the last weekend.
Here is the itinerary:
http://goo.gl/fIQ8u

 Where can you see a factory like this?!

1st stop at Hershey's Chocolate Factory, the way how Americans entertain the customers is just unbeatable. Even though the Belgian, Hungarian or Swiss chocolate is better, Europeans cannot sell the feeling of eating chocolate or being in a factory.

 2,5 kg - solid pleasure

At the chocolate world! 

Xiao took us a Chinese restaurant, the experience was much better than the food. At this time we didn't have luck with that food. She said it was not fresh, i believe so...

In Harrisburg, under the Liberty Bell 

 I found it!!

Harrisburg, State Capitol

At night we went to two microbreweries and of course Hungarians are everywhere, even on the menu. But, I gotta tell you that was just a fake goulash...in a German brewery don't try to eat Hungarian Goulash. Germans are good at so many things but making goulash. The mood was pretty good at the brewery (Pittsburgh's first brewery) because of the live German/American live music.

I do not understand myself, when i get the chance to eat, i always challenge myself. I started the meal with a beer cheese soup (it could have been quite enough to finish my dinner) then i ordered a national champion wheat beer of 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. It won everything but my vote. It was too bitter for me. And on the top of these i put a whole foot long sub with French fries. Holy cow, it was killing me, but of course i won that battle.

I terminated that sub. 

I wanna have a microbrewery in Hungary! It is a real capital intense business, but once you are in and everything is set up, all you need is a shovel to put the money into your storage. 

My favorite city is Pittsburgh. That city is just exquisite. It has three rivers, 443 bridges and 776 staircases. There has been invented the world's #1 sold sandwich, the BigMac. The guy who created it was appreciated with a Thanks for your effort! card by the MacDonalds:) The company made tons of money though. 

 We visited Pittsburgh's most exclusive restaurant the Grand Concourse, it was a railway station but they turned into a fancy/upscale/snob or whatever you want to call it restaurant. I was just a freaking cheap tourist among the guests. (But I didn't care at all, walked around took some pictures)

We went to our place, which was the Crab Shake place. OMG look at this plate! I got all fresh-made (from scratch) crabcake, fish and chips and stuffed, grilled shrimps with onion fries!! The best seafood ever (until this time) 

Lovely Pittsburgh 

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I "borrowed" a chair, put in the middle of a road, blocked the transportation and enjoyed the feeling of having fun.

"Stolen daughter" - a piece of art 

At the Fort Pitt (that was the last original piece of the fort) 

I could say: "God bless America!"

 That is a pretty cool place, the world-known horseshoe curve. During the WWII the Nazis wanted to blow up this curve to block the east side's most important railway. They didn't succeed. It is still one of the most busiest transport route. It passes thorugh the Appalachian. 

At the PennState's gift shop #1

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 I still know something about gymnastics. It was shot in the PennState Botanic Garden. 375 acres, 1700 species, pretty big. The school has 44.000 students on the PennState campus and 87.000 students all together. What do you think about its size? The biggest university is the Arizona State University with almost 60.000 students on campus. http://goo.gl/XuLYI

:)

Hershey, milk shake

Ducky boat

We had a great weekend with Andris and Xiao and looking forward the upcoming trips.

Next post is going to be about the Broadway, the Hungarian restaurant and Eastern.

Thanks for reading.