Spain is one of the most mountaineous country in the world. So, it is very hilly here in Benalmadena too. Hills everywhere. The roads and streets are slopey. You are either going down the slope or going up one. Some of them are quite steep too. They don’t quite show up in the photographs though.
The tables and chairs outside the restaurant are all on a slight slope. I was imagining/expecting the bottles and glasses to be sliding down the table at any time. But no such thing happened, except in my vivid imagination.
Anyhow...
La Espiga
La Espiga is one of the many local restaurants in the area. They have pig trotters on the menu. I was curious to see how they prepare this dish. I am sure it is not a common item on a Western menu. So, I thought I would be adventurous and give it a try.
Boy, was I disappointed. Perhaps, not so much with the way it was prepared, but by the fact that they literally serve only the trotters – the end portion, the last joint of the trotters. There was just skin, fat and bones, and of yes.... hairs! Yuks! That was really not cool.
Anyhow, I managed to leave the hairy bits and ate the rest. It was tasty enough. Just that I had expected that there would be some meat with the trotters – like the way we Asians prepare them.
The Chinese/Asian way, or at least how my family eat pig trotters would be to chop the pig trotter – this would include the upper portion, into pieces and stew them with vinegar, and spices. Yummy!
This is my first, and definitely my last experience with pig trotters in Spain.
Anyway...
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