New office, street drinking etc

Well, my new office is moving! we're moving about a km or two away and it takes is a little away from the center of the CBD district (ChaoYang). However, the new office building is brand new and is about 2-3 times the size of the old one. One of the dudes here (Trevor, he worked in Canberra and knows Geoff [Hyper, from parties back around 1999/2000] as Geoff was his boss! small world) actually took it upon himself to do the interior decorating lol. I am going to go to check out the office tonight and also to try and find new restaurants - preferably with picture menus. When you go overseas to some place that doesnt speak English or use Latin characters, you'll appreciate picture menus =)

I'm living in a hotel atm as I had to get out of my awesome apartment now that we're moving etc. I am to look at new places on Monday at lunch so this hotel room is home for now. it's ok but I wouldnt write home about it (heh) - maybe 3 stars.

Last night I went with some people from the office to a place called "Schindlers" which was a german restaurant in the heart of the southern embassy district. The food was a realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly nice change as they have real sausages, schnitzels, saurkraut, cheesy-potatoe things and german beer. And it wasnt too expensive either. After that, we went to the 'Biscuit-Lady' who is this lady that maintains a shabby store-front on a corner near one of the dude's apartment buildings.

She mainly caters tothe migrant workers that live near her stand and as such the facilities were extremely basic. But, it was a fantastic night =) we sat on the edge of her shop front on rickety stools and drank 1.5 "kwai" (roughly, "bucks") longneck beers - which is about 20cents aus. they had a chu'ar (ckicken skewers dusted with arab spices and bbqd then and there) also just up the way which is tasty and half-kwai per stick, extremely cheap really. It's that sort of street-scape and experience that I was hoping to have and I'm glad that I've had it so quickly, however the dudes here were already locals there so that made it easier. I guess beer that cheap will always attract Aussies =)

Anyway, I'm going to go look at the new office then find some food somewhere. Also - My little sister is almost due for her baby - 28th of June - so I cant wait to hear that she has given birth without issue to a happy and healthy baby girl.


Until next time, cheers and have a good one!