Shanghai Expo 2010 - Spain

We had dinner at the Spanish Pavilion. The architecture of the pavilion itself was awesome. It was sort of free-form and Frank Gehry-esque. The entire exterior was textured with "shingles" of woven rattan.

The food was... pretty pathetic. The table wine was barely drinkable. We got a sad waterlogged salad to start, some rubbery meatballs and soggy patatas bravas to follow, and a slice of some pie or other to finish. If you know me, you'll know that a pie has to be pretty damn bad for me to forget what the flavor was. [Postscript: This meal ended up being the worst one we had at the Expo.]

The dinner cabaret show was likewise feeble, though listening to the MC speak Chinese with a heavy Spanish accent was a suprisingly enjoyable novelty.