After unpacking your things in some of the many hotels from Valencia, and ready to begin your package tour, I recommend you to go straight ahead to the reception and then ask this single one question: Where can we eat the best Valencian paella?
Well-known in Spain and also around the world, this paella is the great pearl of the Spanish cuisine, a delicacy that is cooked over a low heat in a few 22-centimeters-long paella pans and that is considered a deeply-rooted tradition in the Valencian Community. Coincidentally, the word “paella” means “frying pan” in the Valencian language.
Local people like the options and this is how the local paella can be made of meat or shellfish. If we are dealing with the first option, we should include chicken pieces between the rice and the vegetables while if we speak about the second one, we will eat a mouth-watering dish that will include mussels, mantis shrimps, clams, squids and all kinds of fruits of the ocean, this is the reason why it is known as the “marine paella”. Although nowadays the selection of the products is stricter, in boats it was a common practice to add all that had been captured after a fishing day:
