28/01/2025: Excellent for both quality and variety compared to typical tourist-catching restaurants. As a vegetarian I couldn't stand eating normal pasta anymore and here there is an excellent choice!
28/01/2025: We arrived in Palermo late at night and began our gastronomic journey, choosing couscous as our glorious first meal. Couscous is a traditional North African dish that refers to small pasta shaped like millet.
Because it is close to North Africa, it is also enjoyed in Sicily, and in the case of Sicilian couscous, fish is used as the base due to the geographical characteristics. Originally, lamb and beef were used as the base.
I found a couscous store introduced in ‘Spoopa’, which gave me this knowledge, and there are two stores in Palermo. I went to the main store, but the store in the ‘Spoofa’ video is a branch branch and is a bit far from the city.
I ordered the signature dish, Trapani-style fish couscous, and the price wasn't bad at 15 euros per person. The alcoholic beverages were mostly Sicilian wines, so I paired it with a bottle of Chardonnay.
Couscous is served with the stew, and the stew is placed separately in a large pot, so you can scoop up a little bit and put it on the couscous. The stew contained shapeless pieces of fish, presumed to be sea bass.
The fish flesh was removed and placed on top of the couscous. It was soaked in the stew and seasoned well, and the couscous was nicely mixed into the stew. First, I tried it without the stew on top.
It looks like powder on the outside, but when I put the couscous in my mouth, I felt the coarse particles and a subtle savory taste reminiscent of bread crumbs. Because of the stew, the texture was like mixing rice into spicy stew.
The stew also tasted like spicy stew, but the difference was that it wasn't spicy and had a strong tomato flavor. Still, it was spicy and contained the flavor of fish, so I wanted to drink it.
Unfortunately, since I didn't have a spoon, I tried it on top of couscous, and it tasted even saltier, making it a good side dish to drink. Even though I kept adding stew, the couscous was so thick that the soup didn't sit well.
The couscous tasted better than I expected, but it didn't fail. I think it's hard not to suit the taste of Koreans. I poured myself a glass of digestif that I received as a service and left in good spirits.
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