I'm already trying to plan to go back probably in October. It's a great place.
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The Fresh Prince
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Costa Rica & Kuwait. Not much positive to say about Kuwait, especially if you work here. Dry country (Everything "good" is banned, lol), hot, bad air quality, I can go on... the money's okay though.
Never thought id say it but I miss good ole 'Merica. If anyones hiring in Utah let me know.
Never thought id say it but I miss good ole 'Merica. If anyones hiring in Utah let me know.
Keefe
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Hiring for what? Not sure you’ve said what you do.
The Fresh Prince
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I googled Maputo to see what it is like. This church really looks like an LDS temple:
Speaking of Japan, a number of months ago I had tried to convince my wife to go to Tokyo as I had found tickets for like $600 on Delta out of LAX for October. We could’ve redeemed skymiles and had it be like $2,200 for all 7 of us, and it really looks like the rentals are drastically less than they typically are since they’re just opening back up to tourism. Anyway, we never pulled the trigger. She had lived in Tokyo for a year and has wanted to go back. I’ve never been to Asia. A few months went by and we ended up making plans to do Perú in October, but my wife is now realizing that had she known we’d do that, she’d rather have gone to Japan. Thailand next spring, though.
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This is funny because I remember a number of years ago you had mentioned the idea of moving to SLC and a number of people tried to discourage it, yet here you are in Kuwait. Anyway, that sounds like a great experience. I don’t necessarily mean that it’s awesome or like a vacation, but to be able to have an experience like that is a frame of reference for your entire life. I would like to see Kuwait though, even if it’s not a burning place that’s I’d feel like was on a bucket list. There are places that you just don’t think of that are seemingly random and I’d like to see what life is like there, or at least how the world functions, even if it’s not “vacationy.” The guy from The Best Food Review Show Ever (I think that’s what it’s called) on YouTube did a video in Kuwait and he was making it look pretty miserable with the heat.
A Peruvian Japanese Nikkei restaurant are probably my favorite food, I'm sure they have some good ones in Peru!I googled Maputo to see what it is like. This church really looks like an LDS temple:
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Speaking of Japan, a number of months ago I had tried to convince my wife to go to Tokyo as I had found tickets for like $600 on Delta out of LAX for October. We could’ve redeemed skymiles and had it be like $2,200 for all 7 of us, and it really looks like the rentals are drastically less than they typically are since they’re just opening back up to tourism. Anyway, we never pulled the trigger. She had lived in Tokyo for a year and has wanted to go back. I’ve never been to Asia. A few months went by and we ended up making plans to do Perú in October, but my wife is now realizing that had she known we’d do that, she’d rather have gone to Japan. Thailand next spring, though.
That does very much look like a LDS temple.
I think we're moving to Thailand in a couple years. I think I'll prefer it to Ethiopia. Not that I dislike it here, it's just a little harder place to live sometimes. I mostly miss a lot of foods, especially any seafood.
I’m pretty excited for the food tourism component of both Perú and Thailand. There’s actually a number of similarities in the sense that both are incredibly cheap for everything while you’re there, the food is cheap, lots of street food, but you’ve gotta be careful with water and such. And you can’t flush your toilet paper. Anyway, I do like Thai food (my wife likes it more), but I have to have main staples of just salty/savory and can’t consistently eat sweet, of which most Thai food seems to be sweet. But there’s so much variety in Thailand that I’m pretty sure I could eat Indian every day. In fact, when we go to India, whenever that is (not on the radar any time soon), I’m pretty sure I could eat Indian for every meal and be just fine with that.
The Fresh Prince
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Brother it's one of the less desirable middle eastern "tourist" countries to visit. Qatar or Dubai are more "American friendly" with our culture than it is here in Kuwait. Basically Kuwait is a place for contractors to make their money, and that's it. No nightlife, no sights to see. It's not the worst place on earth, but you get pretty burned out from this country pretty quick. There's a beach here, and there's malls, but everything is basically expensive. You may be able to find a good deal on a watch, or a ring, but outside of that I've found that most of everything here that has to be imported is outrageously expensive. One thing about here is there is a million perfume companies, and you can find a pretty good deal on colognes if you look hard enough. I can get most of the designer colognes for around $30.
The Fresh Prince
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I actually work with a guy in my section who's from Utah so it's cool to talk about Utah with him. Unfortunately he said he hasn't kept up with the Jazz in a few years though. I wouldn't be surprised though if someone here knows him or went to school with him lol his names Royce.
I’m under no illusion that Kuwait is a great place to vacation. The reason I’d want to see it is similar to the reason I’d want to see North Korea or Iraq or Senegal. It would be fascinating. Not because it’s got great activities or fun things to do or picturesque vistas, but because it allows to to capture a different element of the human experience and places where numerous parts of life haven’t been captured by western influence.
This would probably be a frustrating point about living in SLC if you did — most everyone will have a cursory understanding of the Jazz but it’s going to be almost never that you can have an intelligent conversation with someone about it. You’ll definitely get into the conversations but then quickly realize nobody has any clue what they’re talking about.
The Fresh Prince
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Dont get me wrong, you can roam freely in Kuwait. As long as you have your visa paperwork you won't have any issues, and police usually let Americans past checkpoints because they figure you're a contractor. You'll also meet people from various cultures here as most people that come to Kuwait are either American contractors, or expats from other countries that don't have much to offer as far as a a job goes. Even for the little pay they receive, getting a work visa here to make $300-$400 a month is worth it to them.
SoberasHotRod
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I've been to both Thailand and Peru and can confirm these were my two favorite places I've traveled based on their food.
Thai food was just consistently good. Even the low quality food I had at a cafeteria was amazing. I was there for 10 days and did eventually get a little sick of it. I was really craving steak and potatoes by the end.
I went to both Chile and Peru on the same business trip. It was interesting in Chile that all of their nice restaurants were Peruvian. Chilean food is really bland and basic, but Peruvian food is a lot more varied and flavorful. I did have some Peruvian food I didn't love, but most of it was amazing.
Easily the best food in the world and I don't think it's close is China. The level of diversity, plus how much people care about it, and that pretty much every food in the world is influenced by it, makes it the best. But I also really love a lot of food. I am planning at least 25 restaurants for my visit back to China, and I might cry at each place. I like the food in Ethiopia especially the diced raw spicy beef. But this country has pretty limited number of dishes.
I get a kick when people say they don't like Chinese food. I mean I know what they mean, they don't like standard Americanized Chinese food, but taken literally it's akin to saying they don't like food.
SoberasHotRod
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I've spent a lot of time in China and Hong Kong, and while I had some amazing food there, in general I wasn't a fan. I think it's just the typical spices they use and typical textures that aren't my favorite.
The spices are wildly different in didn't areas and some areas without spice at all. I generally am not a huge fan of the traditional Cantonese style food. But I love a handful full of dishes from each area. But to each there own.
SoberasHotRod
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What region of Chinese food do you like the best? I spent most of my time in Guanzhou and Dongguan when I was traveling there frequently. My brother's wife is from Shanghai, so I'm somewhat familiar with food from that region as well.
I do think it's likely very different living there vs traveling there. When you live somewhere you can find out what places/dishes you like the best and then you start craving those places/dishes. When you are there traveling you are trying lots of different places and sometimes the stuff you don't like overshadows what you do like.
It's really hard to say. I really like food from dongbei especially the areas close to north Korea that share common dishes. They have a sweet pork dish that makes me cry along with cold noodles. Xingjiong has some really good lamb skewers and a few other good quality dishes like horse blood sausage. Yunnan has a very unique spice I like. Guangzhou has some traditionally good dishes, but not my favorite style that's more Cantonese food. But I do like the beef noodles from good places. The crawfish in both Beijing and Wuhan is some of the best in the world. Beijing I like a few things but the pork intestine is one of my favorites. Then there is the 200 different types of hotpots that I like about 198 of.
My wife is also from Shanghai and they have great seafood. But some of it's an acquired taste like the lake crabs they are famous for that you eat the eggs and male stuff from. But I like the turtle shells, eels, the sweet pork dish from there as well. I'll look up some dinners from there and post the pics.