Friday was a bit of a food adventure day for me. I went with another girl from Cal Poly that also lives in the Studentenstadt to get lunch at one of the many Bavarian restaurants near Marienplatz. We got lost trying to find a restaurant that ended up being closed and found this lovely little street:

Then picked a new restaurant on the other side of Marienplatz on this street:

Yes, all of the buildings here are 5 stories tall and no, in certain areas of "downtown" I'm still not sure what distinguishes sidewalk from street. It all looks the same and both people and cars travel on it, haha.

For lunch I went with the simple weiner wurstl, which looks like your average hot dog but tastes more like polska kielbasa, a.k.a. delicious, and comes with potato salad (kartoffelsalat).

I also tried the "water with gas", described to me as simple fizzy water, but experienced more as straight awfulness. It's also the same price for water as it is for soda, so I think I'll be sticking to spetzi :) For dinner the girl across the hall and I ventured three train stops down from where we live to a random food stand recommended to her by our German flatmate. The stand only sells doner kebabs, and they're DELICIOUS. Very similar to gyros, except also infused with love and magic. My immediate love for them might have something to do with the withdrawals I am having due to the distinct lack of Mexican food, or anything-wrapped-in-a-tortilla food, but we decided to get them again for lunch tomorrow so we will see if the love saga continues. Redeeming side note: I am totally addicted to giant pretzels :)

I almost forgot the best part! After lunch we ventured in this giant 8 floor store similar to Sears and found the BEST Lego section in any store ever. Here's why:

No wonder Germans are so smart! They have fully functioning Lego engines to play with in department stores! There were moving pistons and everything. Immediately next to this was a two foot Batman statue :))