Comments on: Love Snail https://www.saltshaker.net/20180708/love-snail Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20180708/love-snail#comment-269942 Sun, 10 Apr 2022 21:21:10 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=25588#comment-269942 In reply to Miles.

Let’s just say I’ve been twice and chose not to write it up.

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By: Miles https://www.saltshaker.net/20180708/love-snail#comment-269938 Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:36:23 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=25588#comment-269938 Hey Dan, trawling through your site in the hope of finding an inspiring new restaurant (pickings are pretty thin in BA at the moment!) I notice that you don’t include the continuation of Love Snail, a restaurant that is more secret and Chinese than its predecessor and kept us going throughout the lockdown! The restaurant itself is hidden behind Ming’s Chinese tea house which is in front of the Colon on Viamonte. It doesn’t seem to feature on the internet but I think it is called Nuestro Espacio or similar. The tea house is worth a visit in its own rite, as they prepare all sorts of interesting chinese patisserie. Hidden out the back is quite a big restaurant, still for “Chinese only”. Can be a bit tricky as the smallest table is for 10, and it is normally packed with big family groups. However the food is fabulous and Ming has upped her delivery game which is very reliable now. Only thing is you need to have WeChat as she publishes a dozen specials a day. And of course the descriptions that go with the pictures are in Chinese. However she is very patient so we send her the pictures of what looks interesting and ask what on earth they are! I have to say we have tried dishes that you would never find outside china. Some (there is a lot of offal) a bit too strong for our tastes, some quite unexpectedly amazing like the thick spicy, vinagery, ginger frog soup! If you have WeChat I will send her contact. We eat from there at least once a week, and if you say you are a friend of ours she will not dumb down the spice!
Also, I am quite interested in coming round for some cooking lessons, focussed of desserts that are something that I have a very limited repertoire for. We have a sweet Paraguayan girl working for us at the moment who is quite talented and into cooking sweet things so it would be great to do a class for 2? Let me know how you manage these things
Abrazo Grande, Miles

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By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20180708/love-snail#comment-266022 Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:37:56 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=25588#comment-266022

Somewhere in mid-2019, Min, the owner/chef of this place, left. The best I could get out of the new person in charge was that she’d left, and probably had left Argentina. I’ve since found out that’s not the case, and she left to open two new restaurants on her own – soon to be reviewed. With a new owner and new chef, things have changed. Not quite as friendly as before to non-Chinese folk, though, to be fair, on the flip side, they’ve translated at least part of the menu into Spanish. The menu’s a bit shorter than before, and the food is… different. It’s still very good, but not the wow level that it was. And you can see the difference simply in the way things look on the plate that there’s less attention to detail, less care put in. Here, a slightly sour chinese cabbage saute, szechuan peppercorn chicken, potstickers, and hui guo rou, the twice cooked pork belly – the latter three you can compare in the original post to how they used to look. It’s still recommended, but no longer in my top five in the city.

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By: The Big Six-Ohhhhhh – SaltShaker https://www.saltshaker.net/20180708/love-snail#comment-265660 Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:39:24 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=25588#comment-265660 […] I’ve made here in BA over the last 13+ years to join me at one of my favorite restaurants, Caracol de Amor, for some real, authentic, Chinese […]

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By: Szechuan Happiness https://www.saltshaker.net/20180708/love-snail#comment-262139 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:03:49 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=25588#comment-262139 […] peppercorns. Equally as good as my favorite (to date) version of this dish here in town from Caracól de Amor. Again some inconsistency – this photo from the first visit, packed with fresh chilies, while […]

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By: Blown in from the Northwest https://www.saltshaker.net/20180708/love-snail#comment-261999 Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:28:21 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=25588#comment-261999 […] dumbed down for local palate style that we see not just here, but in much of the west. Places like Caracol de Amor and Old Beijing that have menus only in Chinese, and you either have to figure out your way through […]

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