A LITTLE BIT ON WORK & THE FOOD

Week one is done! My first full week of work and I love it, I really do. I know I made the right choice transplanting us across the globe for this job opportunity because it's going to be a fun, challenging and rewarding experience. The people, the projects, the management, the opportunities, they are all worth it. It was a little overwhelming (as Josh once said, "it's like drinking from a firehose") meeting all those people, sitting in a ton of meetings and talking about the future when I'm still learning about the past & present but I wouldn't have it any other way. You gotta hit the ground running!

Enough about work, let's talk about the real important stuff... the food!

The food here is amazing, nobody and I mean nobody cooks ever, everyone eats out all the time. I still want to find a place with a kitchen so I can cook once in a while but groceries are fairly pricey (except for fruit and some seafood), otherwise you can get a full meal for super cheap or super expensive there is no middle ground. 

You either eat at the local "Hawker Centers" (think food court with all homemade food, no fast food) where most meals cost between $2 to $7 which is about $5 Canadian and under. Trust me, it's awesome and you are stuffed afterwards. Or you can spend upwards of $100 for a dinner in a nice place and that's not including booze but even there the food is worth it once in a while. There are alot of local delicacies that are worth eating over and over again as well: Murtabak (fried naan with Chicken, Cheese & Onions - awesome for Hangovers or Jetlag), Chili or Black Pepper Crab (fresh whole crab in a tomato & chili gravy or with a smokey black pepper rub, Mee Goreng (fried noobles with veggies), Laksa (spicy noodle soup with your choice of meat & veggies) and Satay (meat skewers with Peanut sauce). What makes it so memorable is that this place is a melting pot of cultures so you get Indian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Mediterranean, Lebanese, Korean and Western all mixing with each other... it's foodie heaven. Overall, not a bad meal yet.

Where there is trouble in paradise is with booze, it's SUPER expensive. Vodka costs about $80 a bottle, wine about $40, a six pack of beer is $25. Most restaurants offer extensive happy hours where it's 2 for 1 drinks or you pay a cover charge and drink for two hours free but overall it's pricey. We've found that the best bang for your buck is Sake, so that has now become our nemesis in this part of the world:-P

Apartment hunting continues but we are narrowing our scope, stay tuned!