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Chicago photos
Here are finally some photos from Chicago. Not many, because I have been in the lab all day every day.
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Buying beer
Another day in this country, another amusing peculiarity. I went to buy beer at the local supermarket. Beer and wine is sold in most supermarkets here (unlike Australia, when will the Australians learn?). So, I was waiting in line to pay for my goods: a six-pack of Heineken and a six-pack of Pilsner Urquell, the best beer I could find there. Behind the counter was a young woman, maybe 19 or 20 years old.
When it was my turn to pay, she asked me: “Could you please scan the beer for me?” She didn’t touch it. Guess why! She’s not 21 yet, not allowed to handle alcohol!!! HAHAHA This country is so hilarious!
Fortune cookies
I have been in Chicago for a few days now. It’s pretty boring here without company. So I usually have to have dinners by myself and I have to go to a restaurant, because I don’t have a kitchen here. Yesterday I went to a supposedly Thai restaurant.
The food was not too bad. If not very authentic, at least it tasted quite nice. I ordered Panang curry with Halibut (a fish from the Atlantic), and I had an excellent Singha beer with it.
After being rushed to pay, as usual in this country, for a brief moment my boredom was completely replaced by amusement: I was given a fortune cookie. I was given fortune cookies before at chinese restaurants in this country, and I had known that they were a North American invention served in American-Chinese restaurants. This one, however, had a different shape, the shape of a roll, which must be very particular for Thai culture, because the wrapper said: “Thai Fortune Cookie”!!!
Hahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahaha
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