Restaurant Name: Various roulettes in the harbour area
On the way back, Lionel gave us a choice of going back to the hotel straightaway or getting off in downtown Papeete, returning later on our own steam. Everybody opted for getting off there. We ate supper in a parking lot full of
roulettes (truck-restaurants). I have to give the Tahitians one thing, they sure enough are inventive with their trucks. I chose the truck-restaurant with French food. I had escargots (snails) in herbed butter and served with French bread. Mama and Grandma went to one selling Chinese food. Daddy and my brother went to one selling pizza. I don't know what the rest of our group, or, for that matter the rest of the busload did for supper, except I'm sure Brian Baker of Westminster sought a McDonald's in Tahiti. I felt like shaking a little common sense into the old boy! After supper, it was up to me to flag down a truck to take us to the hotel. I wrote my postcards, stamped them, and turned them into the lobby for Monday mailing.
Favorite Dish: Because Tahiti is part of French Polynesia, I stopped by the truck serving French food for some escargot. Some folks might think it is great and creative that the locals would make restaurants in the back of trucks, but, at the same time, think ill of it if it were tried in Texas or North Carolina. The truck restaurants are innovative and quite good.
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Directions: Believe it or not, in a parking lot on the outskirts of Papeete.
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