Hot Chocolate, Fartons and Hello Kitty Biscuits

Location: Valencia
Date: 25 June 2009
Details: Hot chocolate with fartons, and a novelty Hello Kitty biscuit

Notes: Fartons. Spanish for "dry iced bun stick" and nothing about that name for an English-speaker to snigger at, noooo not at all.

The delicious Spanish hot chocolate is an entirely different beast to the English stuff made with powder and hot milk. This is like a liquid pudding, possibly one of the many failed 'chocolate fon-dont' puds which line the path to Masterchef victory. Would be delicious with a nice English shortbread...

Sadly the Hello Kitty biscuit wasn't a quality product. Hastily acquired in the nearby El Corte Ingles supermarket in the Aqua shopping centre, it was over-processed, dry and boring. But The Lion enjoyed the enclosed miniature Kitty plastic toy.

This ice-cream parlour served hot drinks with a little packet of these Smarties-like sweets.