Monday, May 15, 2006

Starbucks are everywhere

The afternoon was pretty uneventful. Johnson (my primary trainee) was able to complete all of the tasks for the first system I taught him -- so I was feeling pretty good except for the barely being able to stay awake part.

We had Thai for dinner after walking past a McDonalds, KFC and Papa Johns. The Papa Johns offered delivery and there were a number of bicycles parked out front... I had a pineapple curry stir fry with prawns served inside the pineapple. Dinner for four was 336 RMB = $42 US. 10.50 per person isn't bad at all. I did splurge after dinner and go with Kathy to Starbucks. I looked over all of the pastries from Mango Cream Cake to Barbequed Pork Pie -- but settled for a Green Tea Frappucino (33 RMB or $4 US). With all of the green tea I am drinking, I should be an interesting color when I return.

One point of interest is that your choice here is either green or red tea (red is our black). So being red/green color blind this is an area that I definitely prefer our representation.

A point of closure -- turns out a laptop plug works everywhere and I simply needed to plug it into the wall. Thanks to all that remained silent and let me figure that one out.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

At least some coffee & pastries is never far away!
:-)
kd