The guide to Expo 2015 for design lovers. If we say SoHo, everyone thinks of a specific area of Manhattan (or London, if you are British). However, in New York City, SoHo stands for South of Houston Street. Here we are at Expo 2015; we are not as clever as in New York, so we have no SoDe (South of Decumanus). That said, if we organized names like in New York (NoLIta, North of Little Italy; NoMad, North of Madison Square Park, etc.), we would get SoDe. The south side of the matter. Piero Ciampi would have said: “[the roaring south](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F08NeU_97qY)”. This area was curated by the Social Media Team Expo 2015. All photos by Beatrice Bianchetti and Anna Chiara Maggiolini.
The only pre-existing building on the exhibition site.
For many people, Romania is a paradise: rolling meadows, uncontaminated nature and super fast internet. This is the message of the Romanian Pavilion, which transmits the coexistence of tradition and technological innovation. Let's just say the pavilion is all right, but the real gem is the roof-top restaurant. This eatery, in the form of a traditional wooden cabin, is for strong stomachs. Romanian cuisine makes abundant use of meat: grilled, roasted or stewed. You can try some [mamaliga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%83m%C4%83lig%C4%83), similar to Italian polenta, or [sarmale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarma_(food)), robust cabbage roulades filled with minced meat, bacon, onion, egg and sweet peppers. To manage to have room for the dessert, there's a very simple trick. Dilute your meal with generous quantities of fine beer: the local one is called [Ursus](http://ursus-breweries.ro/?lng=2) (Bear) and fits the bill perfectly. Never was a name more appropriate…
