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There are a couple of those I know:

- White sangria. "Sangria" literally means "bloodletting", and has been traditionally made from red wine. But white sangria has become popular overseas and with tourists, and now many Spanish restaurants also offer white sangria.

- Eating paella at night. Traditionally in Valencia, the paella was to be eaten only at lunch time and never at dinner time. This is because it's rice-based, so it's too heavy to go to sleep afterwards and dinner time is fairly late. But a lot of tourists want to eat it at night, so restaurants serve it anytime. There's even light joking among locals when seeing someone eating paella at night "I'm sure they are tourists".

I'd guess countries where there's a lot of tourism have a lot more of this pizza effect than others. The inverse would be "Yoshoku" in Japanese, which is heavily adapting the foreign dishes to local tastes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dshoku




Yoshoku has now been exported outside Japan and is quite popular in eg Singapore. So you can dig into a curry at Ma Maison, a popular yoshoku chain which has a French name for no obvious reason, and contemplate that you're eating a Singaporean version of a Japanese mutation of a British navy stew inspired by Indian curry. Looking forward to somebody opening a yoshoku restaurant in India and completing the circle!

http://www.ma-maison.sg/



> it's too heavy to go to sleep afterwards

I find this very interesting as I'd class heavy meals as exactly the kind of thing that would leave you lethargic and sleepy after eating.


If eaten too much then heavy foods can cause a stomach ache if you lie down soon after eating. If you remain standing or sitting and do things then you might not even notice it.


Indeed, but then at least in my experience, the quality of sleep is terrible.


I find it interesting because I thought people have a siesta after lunch.


Lot of people avoid it precisely because of indigestion. The really good siesta is before lunch.


Personal anecdote: in Barcelona circa 1997, paella for (absurdly late) dinner was not strictly a tourist thing.


Yup, I believe in the rest of Spain it's any time. Also it's not a strict rule in Valencia or anything, it's just a common recommendation:

https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3305118/0/protocolo-comer-p...




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