Vocabulario Importante:
(1) milOnga - place or type of music that accompanies the tango
(2) portenos - refers to people of BA (literally means comes from the port city)
(3) Carlos Gardel - father of tango. He revolutionized the tango with his cancion 'Mi noche triste'
(4) orquestra tipica - 10 player band (with 4 bandoneons)
(5) asado - typical Argentine BBQ (note - not to be confused with aseo, meaning bathroom)
Recommeded foods to try:
(1) dulce de leche helado
(2) sopa locro
(3) empanadas
(4) sandwich de milanesa (aka chicken fried steak - which I orded by mistake one day!)
(5) fernet branca (Italian liquor that we discvered tastes like gasoline, but is very popular among the portenos)
Conversion of Celcius to Farenheit:
Degrees C * 9/5 + 32 = Degrees F
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