This weekend I had the pleasure of visiting San Antonio, Texas. A very last minute trip (like most of my travels), I didn’t have much time to plan out every detail in advance. But, since it would be my first ever trip to Texas, I knew I would have to make time for some Texas-style barbecue (especially after just having Kansas City-style barbecue last month!)

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In a recent trip to Kansas City, I had the opportunity to try the very cuisine the Midwestern city is famous for: their barbecue! If you like dousing your food with lots of sauce like me, you’ll love Kansas City BBQ – a city and a cuisine that is more than liberal when it comes to sauce. Here in Chicago, we have various barbecue joints like Carson’s Ribs or Smoke Daddy BBQ but nothing near as fun or as tasty as Gates BBQ, a famous Kansas City barbecue chain.

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One of the most famous national food markets that I’ve come across is Pike Place Market located in Seattle. Having just visited Seattle for my second time ever (thanks to my brother and his family for moving there), I had the pleasure of discovering the wonder that is Pike Place Market. Just off the coast of Elliot Bay, and located in a city with access to all sorts of bodies of water, this market’s specialty is undoubtedly: fish, and lots of it.

Particularly, the largest tourist attraction at Pike Place Market is the Pike Place Fish Co.’s flying fish. With every order of fish, the name of that fish is called out to be wrapped and then flung through a distance with just seconds warning. The fish is then wrapped and thrown back out to the fish monger. Think “3 mussels and 1 rockfish” being yelled out and flung in the air. Two seconds later, “2 Alderwood Salmon” and the crowd ducks. Something about fish flying through the air is entertaining, to say the least.

See a short clip after the jump!

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It wouldn’t be a proper recounting of my Argentinean travels if I didn’t talk about the abundance of beef just one more time, or more importantly the style of eating Argentineans are most known for: tenedor libre. Translated as an “open or free fork”, this tradition has all-you-can-eat offerings that consist mostly of steak, I mean lots of different kinds of steak. It’s literally a meat buffet, but instead of cruising through plates of already prepared foods basking in heat lamps, dinner is hot off the grill, er, I mean…the asado.

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