After a long day of training and settling in, David Baldwin invited some of his old friends from Torino, along with a few friends he met today out to dinner at a place called Purple Haze. It was a great way to begin meeting all the new people who I have been introduced to . It is kind of funny but when you work these events, everyone is very extroverted and the barriers come down very quickly because you know there is not a huge amount of time to really get to know one another. Needless to say tonight I met up with David (Chicago) , John (Toronto) , Trevor ( Vancouver), Julia ( Vancouver), Dave (DC Area), and Joey.
The food was very tasty. David has been working on his Chinese, since he has been in Beijing almost 2 months longer than most of us and he ordered for the table. Spring Rolls, Cashew and Lemon Grass Salad, Sweet and Sour Pork, Yellow Chicken Curry, Vegetable Curry, Purple Haze Fried Rice, spicy vermicelli, beef, chicken and pork satay and a few others I cannot recall. We also all ordered Tsing Tao, a chinese beer, to drink. They even provided us with Purple Haze beer coolers for each beer. 
Following dinner all of the people staying at the Ritz, Dave, John, Julia and myself all returned via taxi. The cab coming home only cost us 25 RM which is equal to around $3.50 total. So we each paid approximately $1 for a cab ride.
No comments:
Post a Comment