Churros in Chocolate in Valencia, Spain
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After driving nearly four hours through horrendous rain showers, we (my two sisters, Boyfriend, and I) arrived in Valencia. The skies cleared. Our hotel had parking. And a month-long festival to celebrate the entire region was on its last days.
We hit the streets and ambled toward the city center.
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Just outside one of the four or five story-tall gates of the old city wall, we spotted one of the carnival-esque, mobile frying stations that sells street fair food. This one sold sweet fried things, mainly churros.
We asked for a large bag with chocolate sauce to share and watched as two men grabbed and spun together the ends of the dough as it protruded from an industrial machine and into a vat of scalding oil. A few moments later, one of the men lifted each churro from its frying bath and tucked into a bag. He held a shaker full of sugar over the bag and shook and shook and shook. Another person ladled molten chocolate into a plastic cup (not a great combination, plastic and heat), collected our five or six euros, and set us on our way.
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Crispy on their ridges yet slightly spongy at the center, the churros tasted best with sugar but no chocolate. That viscous cup of chocolate is deceiving, as it's low-quality stuff and cut with a lot of fat, and by the taste of it, some kind of fat that's solid at room temperature, like vegetable shortening.
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